topic Re: I have a question about "Contour Placement" of labels in Pro in ArcGIS Pro Questions

I have a question about "Contour Placement" of labels in Pro

SeanSummers_CC — Mon, 30 Oct 2017 15:35:44 GMT

I have a contour feature in my ArcGIS Pro project. When I turn on the labels for the elevation (double), they seem to label fine for all of the different label placement options except for "Contour Placement". I can scroll through all the placement options such as "Basic Line", "European Streets", "North American Streets", etc.. and watch the labels change position, but as soon as I choose the "Contour Placement" they just don't appear. I have the "View Unplaced" option checked and nothing shows up. I have tried different options within the placement control pane such as Uphill Alignment, Page Alignment, Ladders and nothing seems to work. I guess my question is does anybody else have this problem? Is this a bug? Am I doing something silly? Thanks for any feedback.

Re: I have a question about "Contour Placement" of labels in Pro

SeanSummers_CC — Tue, 13 Feb 2018 14:57:15 GMT

It appears that everything is working correctly now. I'm guessing because of 2.1.1?

Re: I have a question about "Contour Placement" of labels in Pro

MichaelVolz — Tue, 13 Feb 2018 17:20:35 GMT

Were you at version 2.1 or earlier when you first encountered this issue?

Re: I have a question about "Contour Placement" of labels in Pro

SeanSummers_CC — Tue, 13 Feb 2018 17:57:12 GMT

Yes, 2.0 if I remember correctly.

Re: I have a question about "Contour Placement" of labels in Pro

MonicaLloyd — Thu, 05 Apr 2018 14:10:10 GMT

We are also experiencing the same issue. Contour labels disappear when Maplex contour placement setting is applied. Running latest version or ArcGIS Pro 2.1.2. Several of my students are experiencing the same problem. Labels work fine if we use regular placement properties.

Re: I have a question about "Contour Placement" of labels in Pro

WendyHarrison — Thu, 05 Apr 2018 16:46:43 GMT

Hi Monica,

I'm not seeing any issues with contour labeling here. Could you please send a package with just your contours and how you're trying to label them?

thanks

Wendy

Re: I have a question about "Contour Placement" of labels in Pro

MonicaLloyd — Fri, 06 Apr 2018 18:34:31 GMT

What is the best way to get you the data? It is taking a long time to create a project package.

Contour placement works ok when I do not have a .style file applied. Could there be a link to the symbology causing the problem?

Monica

Re: I have a question about "Contour Placement" of labels in Pro

WendyHarrison — Fri, 06 Apr 2018 18:43:08 GMT

what is the style applied to? the label symbology? the label placement? or the feature symbology?

thanks

Wendy

Re: I have a question about "Contour Placement" of labels in Pro

NicholasBarger — Tue, 04 Dec 2018 18:45:58 GMT

I just ran into the same issue today. Several weeks ago I created a tiled service from our contours that successfully used the contour label placement in MapPlex Labeling. Today, in a separate project I tried to turn on Contour labeling and the labels disappear. I'm currently using ArcGIS Pro 2.2.4 and I believe I was using the same version when I create my tiled service.

Re: I have a question about "Contour Placement" of labels in Pro

NicholasBarger — Tue, 04 Dec 2018 19:10:13 GMT

Ok... so here is an update for those still having problems with this. This has something to do with data. I had 2 layers, municipal boundaries and contours. They both used "special" label styles, boundary placement and contour placement. When the boundaries were on the contours turned off.. when I turned the boundaries off the contours would appear. Initially I thought this was a bug...it still might be. However, the fix was to replace the boundaries layer since it was the only thing causing the contours to turn off. I symbolized it the same way and labeled it the same way and it corrected the contour labeling issue.

Re: I have a question about "Contour Placement" of labels in Pro

WendyHarrison — Tue, 04 Dec 2018 19:49:01 GMT

Hi Nicholas,

This wouldn't be a conflict between the different Maplex labeling styles. It is probably due to the municipal boundaries layer having a high weight set to it. Which would also explain why adding it in again would fix the issue as the weight would be reset to 0. do you have a copy of the old project where you could check the weights?

thanks

Wendy

Re: I have a question about "Contour Placement" of labels in Pro

NicholasBarger — Thu, 06 Dec 2018 14:20:06 GMT

ESRI tech support told me this was a bug that has been addressed in ArcGIS Pro 2.3.

However, yes the workaround was to drop the interior weight of the boundary file to 0 and then the contours showed up.

Thanks