How to Label Roads

Roads are often abstracted into line objects (some times area objects). Narrow roads can be represented by single lines and broad roads can be represented by double lines. When labeling roads with their names, there are two matters to consider: the labels should along the direction of the road, and the short road also need to be labeled.

This document introduces how to label roads with an example.

Main Contents:

This example including three parts: Data preparation, Creating label map and map decoration.
RoadResult

This example including the following steps:

Step 1: Data preparation

Step 2: Creating road label map

Step 3: Configure and decorate base map

Note

Label along line in ranges label map, composite label map and label matrix map are alike, only some parameters are different. For more details,see Thematic Mapping.