Make it so rotated point labels utilize the Offset, Best Position functionality.
Here, I'm labeling with Offset, Best Position:
There are 3 labels dropped, and I can't easily tell which label goes with which point.
Here I tried angling the labels by attribute (45 degrees), using Offset, Best Position.
Better, but they're all labeling to the Northeast, and dropping the label when they don't fit. Seems like a bug.
If angled lables would use the Best Position functionality, they'd look like this:
So, that would be good. But the best option yet would be to make rotating point labels a Fitting Strategy option (like what is offered for polygon labels):
For those interested, there's also this post about rotating point labels to take into account other layers, such as having your point labels rotate dynamically to fit inside polygons.
An option for point labels to automatically rotate as needed
You can do this with the Standard Label Engine using the Place label at specified angle option.
in the image below the labels tried to place at 45 and when they couldn't, they tried the rest of the list of angles until they placed.
We have an enhancement request to add this functionality to Maplex. Please keep adding kudos to this so that we know people are interested.
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