Motion Graphics Maps Workflow Simplified with ERSI ArcGIS Maps for Adobe Creative Cloud

 I am just finishing a documentary project that involved mapping several hundred locations in a series of motion graphics.

To do so, I used a combination of Illustrator, GoogleEarth, and Excel spreadsheets. Then I converted Illustrator paths to Apple Motion as explained in this post and animated.

Now with this ArcGIS Map add-on to Illustrator, I can skip GoogleEarth and instead import the spreadsheet inside the map console, and build / modify location markers directly inside Illustrator.

Building Maps inside Illustrator! Whoa!

Importing locations via spreadsheet! So easy!

Next time I need to build maps for a project I will likely use this workflow. Note that at this time though, only a few basemaps are vector graphics. The rasterized basemaps are of limited interest to me.

Check this YouTube video for a demo on how to use ArcGIS inside Illustrator.

Adobe Illustrator CC 2018 Export Bug Fixed in 11-2-17 Update

Today Adobe offers an upgrade to Illustrator CC to fix an export bug:
https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/kb/troubleshoot-export-issues.html

New stuff in Illustrator CC 2018 (It's called October 2017 Release - Am I the only one to find this confusing?):
https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/whats-new.html

Da main Illustrator User Guide page:
https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/user-guide.html?topic=/illustrator/morehelp/introduction.ug.js

Adobe Illustrator CC 2015 stuck in Diagnostic Mode - Finally free!

What's going on?
I started Illustrator  CC2015 this morning and it crashed and since then it is stuck in Diagnostic mode. Three days ago it worked fine for hours on end.  Nothing has changed on my end, same everything. This is crazy?!!!  I get this stupid message:

I click on Yes, and then it is STUCK, at Test 11, then Test 12, Test whatever checking Fonts according to the dialog.

But it never gets pass the damn test, never starts. In the activity monitor it shows AI not responding and using 100% CPU.

CC 2015 Photoshop starts, Premiere, Audition, AME, After Effects all start.  But not Illustrator !  Got rid of Fonts caches, repaired permission, started in Safe Mode, no go.
https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1895090?start=0&tstart=0

---- SOLUTION  ----
All right, I got onto the Chat with Adobe Support ("Contact Us")
https://helpx.adobe.com/support.html?promoid=KLXNA#/product/illustrator

We went through resetting Preferences:
/User/Library/Preferences
Rename "Adobe Illustrator 19 Settings" to "Adobe Illustrator 19 Settings-OLD"
/User/Library/Application Support/Adobe
Rename "Adobe Illustrator 19" to "Adobe Illustrator 19-OLD"
Launch Illustrator.  All right!  Out of the Diagnostic mode at last!  Thanks!  Back to work.

I guess that was also in this thread:
https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1895090
Also this as reference:
https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/setting-preferences.html