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This humble rectangle that covers the whole world is useful for a shocking number of cartographic hacks in ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Online.

Geoprocessing Uses
Many subtractive geoprocessing tasks, like Erase and Clip, call for multiple input layers. This layer is often an excellent candidate. Use it as an input layer to erase your area of interest to create a mask polygon. Use this layer to create a geographic inversion of your features for analysis. There are a surprising number of ways that a simple global polygon comes in handy when geoprocessing.

Cartographic Uses
If you are using any of these weird ArcGIS Pro styles, its fill is great as a background texture, like paper for instance. If you want to apply a vignette around your map (because vignettes rule) then you can smite the fill and apply a thick gradient stroke going from fully opaque to fully transparent (in your map's background color). And you can just reverse the gradient and give it an offset to use this as a drop shadow or atmospheric glow, if that's your thing. 

Seriously, what other absurdly simple layer is this cool?
Happy Cartographizing! John Nelson

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ucs201@bangor.ac.uk_PrifBangorUni Item Owner commented a year ago Delete Reply

Very useful thanks, but how can I recentre it to work with an Asia centred projection? The stroke makes a line through the Pacific at 180 degrees longitude.

AlderMaps Item Owner commented a year ago Delete Reply

Have already used this multiple times since I saw it featured in your session in the 2023 UC session. 👏

j_nelson Item Owner commented a year ago Delete

sweet! happy it's helpful!

caroline.rose Item Owner commented 2 years ago Delete Reply

Thanks!! I just used this to lighten the World Imagery basemap by overlying this in white and using a blend mode!

j_nelson Item Owner commented a year ago Delete

it's super useful for that sort of graphical support. happy you use it!

MVSR_GU Item Owner commented 5 years ago Delete Reply

Great idea John! It looks really usefull... Thanks!

[Deleted User] Item Owner commented 5 years ago Delete Reply

Thank you John Nelson. The tip with adding the stroke worked. However, how do I go about making it a stroke around the earth not "through" the earth? See image https://imgur.com/a/bgIzA0i Again, this is fantastic and I can't wait to play with it regularly. Thank you.

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