topic Re: Road Labels for Print in ArcGIS Pro Questions

Road Labels for Print

analyzethis25 — Mon, 14 Aug 2023 19:11:59 GMT

Hi Everyone,

I was hoping you all might have some recommendations for how to label roads for print. I am using ArcGIS Pro 3.1.2.

I print 911 Road Maps for our county, and they are generally either 2x3 or 3x4. Since these are 911 Road Maps, I need all of the roads to be labeled (or at least the majority), and I need the labels to be readable when printed. I am having a hard time making this happen, so I was hoping you all might have some ideas.

Currently, I have converted the road labels to annotations, and I am manually placing them but there are a lot...

Thank you!

Re: Road Labels for Print

SLouq — Mon, 14 Aug 2023 19:15:15 GMT

Following because I do this also.

Annotation is the only way I have found to do this.

Re: Road Labels for Print

JasonBagwell1 — Mon, 14 Aug 2023 21:16:36 GMT

Hello,

Have you tried making Fitting/Placement/Conflict Resolution adjustments in the labeling tab/ribbon?

Re: Road Labels for Print

analyzethis25 — Mon, 14 Aug 2023 21:34:05 GMT

I have played around with those settings a lot and have yet to find one that labels the majority of the labels at a scale that will show up when printed. If you have a recommendation for a specific one to try, let me know!

Re: Road Labels for Print

SLouq — Tue, 15 Aug 2023 12:37:43 GMT

I just made me an annotation feature class for street labels. Just have to remember to add the new street label to the annotation whenever a new street is created.

Re: Road Labels for Print

analyzethis25 — Tue, 15 Aug 2023 13:13:55 GMT

Definitely important to remember! I have it as part of the "new roads" checklist. I just feel like there has to be an easier way than manually placing labels for road names.

Re: Road Labels for Print

SLouq — Tue, 15 Aug 2023 13:20:10 GMT

It's definitely a pain. I have over 740 streets to deal with so that's 740 different labels and when you have to scale the map to fit your whole parish, then labels disappear or start overlapping. Then when you try and make the font smaller, they become not readable at that scale.

I feel your pain.

Re: Road Labels for Print

JasonBagwell1 — Tue, 15 Aug 2023 13:55:23 GMT

Some things I often do when labeling are to turn off the Stack Label feature, remove duplicates, use a curved offset street placement, and sometimes enable font size reduction.

Like you, I sometimes need to create map books, or field maps for 911. And, for really busy areas (towns) creating a few inset maps helps.

Re: Road Labels for Print

SLouq — Tue, 15 Aug 2023 14:02:15 GMT

Some streets are so small but have long street names and you have to use insets to get them to display properly