Making Complex Labels Work! Leveraging Label Expressions, Abbreviation Dictionaries...- Carl Swanson

Making Complex Labels Work! Leveraging Label Expressions, Abbreviation Dictionaries, Priorities and Placement Properties in ArcGIS Pro
Carl Swanson, Oregon Department of Forestry
Oregon Department of Forestry’s Protection District Maps are 1:100,000 products that cover each of ODF’s 12 districts across the state. Comprised of 53 maps that cover around 74,000 square miles, they are used by local ODF district staff and are sold to the public for recreational use. Formerly, these maps were made with annotation and map graphics for labels. Over the last few years our GIS Team has focused on moving our Protection District Maps from annotation and graphic labels to dynamic labeling using the attributes from our enterprise data. This presentation will describe our label strategy, with some practical examples of our label expressions and cartographic process.
This presentation was made at the 2024 annual meeting of the North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS). For more information on NACIS, check out NACIS.org.