Summary on Mapping

In real projects, to optimize a map, you may need a combination of methods and operations. Here summarizes the main methods that will be used.

Data Processing:

  1. If you have a dataset with a large number of very small line segments that may affect the display efficiency, it is recommended you use Dissolve to process the data first.

Map Display:

  1. Enable anti-aliasing for texts and lines.
  2. Set the min and max visible scale for layers, and set a proper scale to display each layer. You can use the Mapping by Scale function to set the scales in a batch.

Other:

  1. You can also divide the features into different datasets for displaying in different layers.
  2. You may display or not display the same dataset at different scales with different styles. For example, for a line dataset for highways, you can display it in single lines at a small scale, or as double lines at a large scale.