topic Re: Labeling Survey Points in Data Management Questions

Labeling Survey Points

BrendanAnnetts — Tue, 14 Nov 2017 17:17:50 GMT

I've been asked to inventory culverts in my work region which means a lot of survey points. I've been trying to label all these points into a user friendly map to show to my municipality representatives. Here's what I've gotten so far (see attached) , but my labels are still to "ugly" some of them have been placed so that the leaders overlap other leaders and other various issues. Can I manually tweak the position of labels? Any tips or advice would be much appreciated.

Re: Labeling Survey Points

AdrianWelsh — Tue, 14 Nov 2017 17:32:12 GMT

Jonathan,

It's hard to see your screenshot. Can you make it bigger?

Either way, have you enabled the Maplex Label Engine?

Exercise 1: Enabling the Maplex Label Engine and adding the Labeling toolbar—Help | ArcGIS for Desktop

Maplex has many options of manipulating labels to help make them look nicer.

Re: Labeling Survey Points

BrendanAnnetts — Tue, 14 Nov 2017 17:47:20 GMT

here's a more zoomed in screen shot, The quality isn't great but basically the issue I'm left with now (using Maplex) is my leaders crossing over each other. Is there a way to select that specific label and move it manually? MidnightYell2003

Re: Labeling Survey Points

AdrianWelsh — Tue, 14 Nov 2017 17:50:21 GMT

Yes, you can convert your labels to annotation, then you have the freedom to do whatever you want with them:

Converting labels to annotation—Help | ArcGIS for Desktop

Re: Labeling Survey Points

BrendanAnnetts — Tue, 14 Nov 2017 17:51:55 GMT

Thanks, I'll give this a try and see how it goes.

Re: Labeling Survey Points

AdrianWelsh — Tue, 21 Nov 2017 06:37:54 GMT

Johnathan, were you able to find success with this?