{"id":395,"date":"2011-11-30T13:00:16","date_gmt":"2011-11-30T18:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gis.mtu.edu\/?p=395"},"modified":"2015-05-01T09:04:16","modified_gmt":"2015-05-01T13:04:16","slug":"advanced-arcmap-labeling-techniques","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gis.mtu.edu\/?p=395","title":{"rendered":"Advanced ArcMap labeling techniques"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a new blog entry at ESRI&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.esri.com\/Support\/blogs\/mappingcenter\/default.aspx\">Mapping Center<\/a> that describes how to use <strong><em>variable depth masking<\/em><\/strong> to improve the readability of labels on data-dense maps. In the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.esri.com\/Support\/blogs\/mappingcenter\/archive\/2011\/11\/28\/variable-depth-masking-contour-label-example.aspx\">article, <\/a>a contour map is created with variable depth masking applied to the labels. This technique hides portions of layers under the labels, which makes them easier to read. An ArcInfo-level license is needed to use variable depth masking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a new blog entry at ESRI&#8217;s Mapping Center that describes how to use variable depth masking to improve the readability of labels on data-dense maps. In the article, a contour map is created with variable depth masking applied to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gis.mtu.edu\/?p=395\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[17,22,44],"class_list":["post-395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-to","category-information","tag-arcgis","tag-cartography","tag-labeling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gis.mtu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gis.mtu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gis.mtu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gis.mtu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gis.mtu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=395"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.gis.mtu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":398,"href":"https:\/\/www.gis.mtu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions\/398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gis.mtu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gis.mtu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gis.mtu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}