topic Remove labels from a single layer that is under a polygon in ArcGIS Pro Questions

Remove labels from a single layer that is under a polygon

LyonMNGIS — Wed, 21 May 2025 17:23:15 GMT

Hello,

I would like to create a map that includes address points, roads, cities, etc. I want to label my roads but not my address points that are contained in a city polygon.

Right now I have two option:

I can hide all of the labels over cities by using a label feature weight =1,000. This allows me to hide the address point labels as desired, but it I would like to label the roads.

I can use a feature mask which hides the address point geometry (which is moot because the address points are already under the cities) however, the labels still appear.

Is there a way to label every layer except address points that are within city limits?

Thank you

Re: Remove labels from a single layer that is under a polygon

JonM32 — Wed, 21 May 2025 17:31:50 GMT

@LyonMNGIS You can turn off labeling for the layer you don't want labels for in the Ribbon. Just select the layer in the contents, go to the ribbon and uncheck labels for address points.

Re: Remove labels from a single layer that is under a polygon

LyonMNGIS — Wed, 21 May 2025 18:28:42 GMT

Jon,

I apologize I need to clarify that I want address points labels to appear outside of city limits, but not inside city limits. The roads layer should be labeled both inside and outside of city limits.

Thank You

Re: Remove labels from a single layer that is under a polygon

RyanUthoff — Wed, 21 May 2025 18:42:38 GMT

Is there anything in the address points attribute table that differentiates between inside and outside city limits? If there is, what you can do is create different Label Classes based on a query. Or in this case, create a single Label Class where "inside outside city limits = yes" and only label those features.

Re: Remove labels from a single layer that is under a polygon

KG_427 — Wed, 21 May 2025 19:03:17 GMT

If you don't have anything in the point layer to make a query with, (ie in city vs outside of city) you could use select by location to grab all of the points that fall outside the city, make a layer from said selection, and then label the selection only.

Re: Remove labels from a single layer that is under a polygon

LyonMNGIS — Tue, 27 May 2025 13:39:31 GMT

@RyanUthoffand @KG_427

I can try to create a separate feature class. I was just hoping there is a way to automatically set the labels so I do not have to create a temporary feature class each time i create a map.

Thank You