One Minute Map Hack: Split Personality Symbology

Here's a hack for how to do the weird half-polygon symbology that they sometimes use in soil science maps.
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[@AbhijayaDhakal]

You got a great personality and love your chicken breaks!!! Please keep it coming so we can appreciate and learn!

[@JohnNelsonMaps]

Thank you!

[@MrGtownjake]

I think, what would make that yard just pop, is a hammock! 😉 Fantastic stuff as always.

[@JohnNelsonMaps]

they're great!

[@ZorkoZerg]

Brilliant! Thank you great idea John! Don't know if I will need it but now I know.

[@JohnNelsonMaps]

thanks Zorko! yeah, it's pretty niche and i'd never heard of this symbology type before last week. but it's amazing what you can get away with with sneaky uses of blend modes. i thought it could fire up some folks and give them ideas for other uses.

[@jbutcher5098]

The things you can do with this software never ceases to amaze me. Keep up the good work! looking forward to seeing what you have for us in Perth (my home town!) in October . Cheers, Jim

[@JohnNelsonMaps]

Hey thanks! I sure am looking forward to my visit. Need to think of what to say now, starting to get nervous.

[@adrianoyaneder1358]

Thanks for this hack John! That's a very creative solution!!

[@JohnNelsonMaps]

thanks!

[@mlsauron]

I think I can repeat the steps. But the mindset and workflow are something more than intellect! I just simple don't get the genesis of the approach. P. S. I would also like to get home eggs after video editing.

[@JohnNelsonMaps]

Ha, thanks! Screen and multiply are, to me, opposites. So if I could get both going by using a group I knew I had a chance. It took a lot of fooling around to get it though and I gave up a couple of times. Just had to get my head around the right combination.

[@bobsage]

Very clever.

[@JohnNelsonMaps]

thanks Bob!

[@bikoaldo]

That was super cool. Was that Leo Kottke playing in the background?

[@JohnNelsonMaps]

thanks! the music was made by Doctor Turtle

[@bertkraan2817]

Yeee! Chickens are great, your hacks also but chickens as an extra !!

[@JohnNelsonMaps]

they're good to us. and they have it pretty easy around here.

[@AndrewCollins77]

That's a lot of hammocks!

[@JohnNelsonMaps]

Lots of Nelsons!

[@BishopMaple]

Our ladies are molting so no more eggs for a while. I tell people they're on strike. I work with geologists and hydrologists so thanks for this hack!

[@JohnNelsonMaps]

Ours are slowing down for the season

[@kelseysmuczynski1890]

Great video! I'm curious as to how you might show this kind of symbology in the legend.

[@JohnNelsonMaps]

ah, good question. you would have to make your own legend, by inserting two rectangle graphics and giving each the pattern used on one side of the map. then put the rectangles next to each other.

[@GiSStation]

great , from India

[@JohnNelsonMaps]

thanks, from Michigan!

[@CraigH999]

Could that kind of setup be saved as a style?

[@JohnNelsonMaps]

No because it is symbology and layer ordering and groups and blend modes.

[@tonyjoffre2909]

..... My wife just said why can't we have chickens you both make maps .....

[@JohnNelsonMaps]

It is pretty great, I recommend them

[@GiSStation]

please add some videos releted to web gis

[@JohnNelsonMaps]

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[@Ahmedali_-qd9eg]

Cool, I have baby chick in my home.

[@JohnNelsonMaps]

it's so great. they are nice to have around. they eat the scraps and make eggs and are a lot of fun for the kids. plus a good lesson about food.