First Map

I'm posting this first map because I had to explore how to clip or mask a raster file. It took me some searching on how to do it, and eventually found a ESRI help site that was user run, rather than sponsored by the company. It was pretty helpful, and I found step by step directions. At first I thought I was doing something wrong because I couldn't mask it the way you do with a vector file, but in the end it all worked out. For the deliverable of this map, I included the non-masked elevation raster as part of the assignment was the need for bathymetry; I didn't want to cut out any info that may be considered useful to one of the rescuing agencies. This one looks much cleaner to me, but if you look at the islands, they were not included in the mask. I'm not sure why, as I masked the elevation to the counties, but they remain empty.