Thin out labels

[AlfredBaldenweck]

Hi all,

I'm working on a map and have turned on labels for some roads.

Inside the project area, they're fine. However, immediately outside the project area, there's a collection of densely packed roads, and all of them have their labels drawing., which is unnecessary and distracting.

How can I make it so only about half of the various roads' labels draw?

To be clear: This is not asking about duplicate labels. This is about multiple unique labels. It doesn't really matter which ones draw, only that fewer of them do.

Thanks!

[ChristopherCounsell · Accepted solution]

There's lots of ways to tweak labels. I'd recommend exploring them all when you have a chance.

For your specific scenario you have a few options. The best is this:

https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/latest/help/mapping/text/specify-a-label-buffer-distance-to-change...

This will force labels to avoid crowding by having a minimum distance between.

You could do other things, like only label features of a certain size:

https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/latest/help/mapping/text/specify-a-minimum-feature-size-for-labeli...

You could also experiment with label weights and how it interacts with the feature, but this isn't specifically to address the question you've posted. Again I'd recommend just browsing through all the labeling options sometime and having a bit of a play to learn how they interact.

Please don't forget the kudos and to mark the answer as solution if it helped 🙂

[AlfredBaldenweck]

A combination of minimum distance and minimum size did the trick. Thanks.