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Overlapping points

RichardWebb3 — Thu, 14 Jun 2018 03:51:22 GMT

I'm following How To: Use the ESRI label engine to offset overlapping point feature symbols which is working well. However, I'm wondering now I have labels as symbols how do I go about adding North East text labels to each of these label symbols so that they are consistent with the position of the label symbol and not the original geometry. IE the Labels class unchecked does not place relative to the other checked label symbols.

Re: Overlapping points

CraigWilliams — Thu, 14 Jun 2018 17:24:57 GMT

The label engine approach for spreading point labels is challenging when you also want to label those points. Basically the moved points and the labels will both be placed by the label engine and conflict with each other for position. An alternative approach is to use the Disperse markers tool to move the point features and then label them: Disperse Markers—Help | ArcGIS Desktop