Latest Contributions by MattKlinger

Hi, Indeed, my apologies for the confusion, I am using ArcMap. I think the issue might have largely been related to displaying too many things on the screen at once. I noticed that having a basemap really affects the speed of the program (on my computer); movements were choppy, and just to update the screen, say after selecting a feature, I'd have to pan the map to refresh it manually and display whatever action I just performed. I created a TIN from a digital elevation model and that caused the drawing to crash. I could still perform actions, but the drawing was not updating at all. It helps explain why in a previous map I had a hard time creating features as it would stop updating the screen when I placed vertexes, so I could not see what I was drawing. In that map, I had a satellite imagery basemap.  I loaded the data in to a new map without the basemap, and things were much less choppy and more fluid like normal.  I really appreciate your response. ... View more

Thanks for taking the time to check the map out. I should have mentioned this, but the reason some labels appear and others don't is because of my label placement properties. I have it set to where they only show if they fit within the feature. It made the labels look far less cluttered. Interesting how one of the labels shows up with the maplex setting in data view, but with the default settings none of the labels are small enough to be considered within the feature. Anyway, knowing about the label placement properties now, I think you can see what I mean in the pictures. In layout view, the labels are small enough to fit within the feature, so more counties are labeled. When switching to data view,  however, the labels become much bigger and all of them become far too big to display within the feature, so none of the counties are labeled. To me that looks like an inconsistency. I guess it is not a big deal though. The other real problem to me though is like you mentioned with the 23,000 features. It makes the thing so sluggish to work on. That's something that'll require me to rethink how to make this map. I have a lot of repetitive features with just a couple of different attributes for each, and that is the voting values ("yes" votes and total votes) in the precincts layer. I used a spatial join between the precincts and county layer. Initially I did a one-to-one join but that did not get all of the votes, it only got one precinct's voting results. I then did a one-to-many join and that made duplicate records for each county times the number of precincts in the respective county. The only difference then between each record for a county was the value for yes votes and total votes, and that was based off the voting results in the according precinct. After that, I was able to use the summary statistics tool to sum up the voting results for each county and make new tables containing the sums. It worked very well, but it does make the map file size way too large. I don't think I'm explaining this totally right, I'm still working on wrapping my brain around it. I will look at the map again later. ... View more

Thanks for your reply Adrian. I ended up sticking with the layout view label sizes. Interestingly, I found a similar post here  Symbol size in data v layout view that explains the same issue. I was just concerned about someone having to go poking around in data view and being met with different label sizes. It strictly appears to just be some ArcGIS quirk. Labels in data view at font size of 16 are equivalent to labels in layout view that are up around size 40. The viewer can zoom in on the labels in layout view or data view and the labels won't resize themselves or anything, so I think it just has to do with label sizes appearing different in data view vs layout view for whatever reason. https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=bc1a2fa0f277450e8ad5c9b7e5a75844  Here's a link to the map if you want to look around just to see what I mean. ... View more

Is it possible to set a zoom extent on the visibility of the labels so you have to zoom in instead to see each label better? ... View more