Line Symbology

[RickeyFight]

I have 6 different line types that I need to indicate clearly on a map.

At the most 3 will over lap at a time.

Does anyone have a good example of line types that overlap and would be able to display clearly?

[WesMiller]

You could offset the lines with symbology.

[DanPatterson_Retired]

have you experimented with Creating line symbols—Help | ArcGIS for Desktop

what are the combinations that are likely to occur out of the permutations?  You can work with the types listed above plus color, thickness

[RickeyFight]

Dan and Wes,

What do you think of this?

There are three lines here. Can you see them?

[DanPatterson_Retired]

Yes I can...look fine to me...but I am not a cartographer

[NICOLAPEDDIS]

The lines are visible but are too close each other. You have to choose one

[WesMiller]

I can see the 3 lines. I don't know that i wouldn't exaggerate more where it would be more apparent that they are 3 separate lines.

[RickeyFight]

Alright I think this is what I might go with what do you all think

[WesMiller]

You may be well beyond this but it never hurts to review the basics. Design principles for cartography | ArcGIS Blog

[ChrisDonohue__GISP]

One idea - if you forsee using this overlapping data often, you may want to look into Representations:

Introduction to the cartographic representations tutorial—Help | ArcGIS for Desktop

However, if this is a one-time map, it's probably not worth doing Representations, as there is a learning curve and some time needed to set it up.

Chris Donohue, GISP