topic Maplex labels covering polygons when there is no reason to in Mapping Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/mapping-questions/maplex-labels-covering-polygons-when-there-is-no/m-p/423896#M4583 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Labeling is the bane of my existence.&nbsp; I've included a graphic to represent what I'm dealing with.&nbsp; I have polyline layers (RED &amp; BLUE) that overlay a polygon (Yellow border with No Color set as fill).&nbsp; I'm trying to label the polyline features using maplex and need the labels to be outside of the polygon.&nbsp; I've set the offset to 25 and in the label weight ranking I have the polygon as the highest weighted feature.&nbsp; It stands to reason that the labels for the polylines would be placed so that they are outside of the polygon.&nbsp; It's not like there are conflicts in their way.&nbsp; But instead the labels are just placed right on top of the polygon.&nbsp; </P><P></P><P>Is there a way I can fix this without converting the labels to annotation and hand massaging each one?&nbsp; Maybe a setting I'm not familiar with?</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 06 Jan 2015 21:56:34 GMT DavidJones4 2015-01-06T21:56:34Z Maplex labels covering polygons when there is no reason to https://community.esri.com/t5/mapping-questions/maplex-labels-covering-polygons-when-there-is-no/m-p/423896#M4583 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Labeling is the bane of my existence.&nbsp; I've included a graphic to represent what I'm dealing with.&nbsp; I have polyline layers (RED &amp; BLUE) that overlay a polygon (Yellow border with No Color set as fill).&nbsp; I'm trying to label the polyline features using maplex and need the labels to be outside of the polygon.&nbsp; I've set the offset to 25 and in the label weight ranking I have the polygon as the highest weighted feature.&nbsp; It stands to reason that the labels for the polylines would be placed so that they are outside of the polygon.&nbsp; It's not like there are conflicts in their way.&nbsp; But instead the labels are just placed right on top of the polygon.&nbsp; </P><P></P><P>Is there a way I can fix this without converting the labels to annotation and hand massaging each one?&nbsp; Maybe a setting I'm not familiar with?</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 06 Jan 2015 21:56:34 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/mapping-questions/maplex-labels-covering-polygons-when-there-is-no/m-p/423896#M4583 DavidJones4 2015-01-06T21:56:34Z