topic Re: Display all labels without overlap, how to disperse labels? in Mapping Questions

Display all labels without overlap, how to disperse labels?

rub0t_ae — Wed, 27 Jan 2021 20:11:48 GMT

I think i must be missing something simple and have not been successful searching for a solution. I am mapping about 80 points throughout my county. Some of the points are very close together. I wish to display all points regardless of scale. My issue is i cannot seem to figure out how to disperse the labels so they do not overlap (see the image below). What am I missing? Is there a function to help me disperse the labels?

Running ArcGIS Pro 2.7.0

Re: Display all labels without overlap, how to disperse labels?

DavidPike — Wed, 27 Jan 2021 20:45:03 GMT

Label with the Maplex Label Engine—ArcGIS Pro | Documentation

might give you more control over the conflict resolution.

Re: Display all labels without overlap, how to disperse labels?

rub0t_ae — Wed, 27 Jan 2021 21:20:57 GMT

thanks for the reply, DavidPike. I've spent quite a bit of time over the last couple days working through the conflict resolution options offered by the Maplex Label Engine. I feel feature weights and key numbering have the most potential but neither gave be quite the outcome i was looking for. I still have labels overlapping each other. I see there is a marker disperse function but I'm hesitant to use it because i don't mind if the markers are overlapping...i just don't want their labels to overlap.

Re: Display all labels without overlap, how to disperse labels?

JesseWickizer — Tue, 26 Apr 2022 22:08:35 GMT

Applying a feature weight along with the minimum and maximum offset properties will help in this situation, but very dense point clusters will still leave some labels unplaced. Here's an example similar to the original post that uses a feature weight of 500, with preferred and maximum offset to allow a range of leader lengths.