multiple leaders from a single label (i.e. "label clustering")
AKA Label Clustering.
Sometimes I have multiple features that I need to be distinct (for example, points that need to remain as multiple visible points as opposed to a clustered single point) but all of those points have exactly the same callout. Manual cleanup ensues, and often times I would like to have a single callout box, with multiple arrows pointing to the various similarly attributed features.
Here's a relatively poor example of what I mean (it would be much cleaner ideally):
For geologic maps, this would also be a really useful technique. You can see on the screenshot I've attached, there are two geologic units -- Qat5 and Kis -- that require the use of two leaders. At the moment, we accomplish this by storing leaders as polyline features in their own feature class. Yes, separate from the annotation they are leadering.
I will add that it would probably only function as we need it to if it would also be possible to adjust the location of BOTH ends of the leader -- the anchor point as well as the other end point, where the leader "connects" to the label. The automatic spacing/margins are nice, but in a lot of cases, it would be useful to move that point around the label's "box".
@RoseF I agree. Yes, we also store leaders as polyline features in their own feature class. Yes, separate from the annotation. We have the lines as red or black with an arrow. We can't get anywhere close to this look by using the actual annotation leader lines. If that functionality could be built in it would be great.
