The purpose of this map is to highlight the names of urban roads. First, we create a uniform style label map to label the road data, then enable the label alongline function and set the advanced parameters for label alongline.

1. In the Layer Manager, select RoadLine1.
2. Click the Thematic Map tab Label group Uniform Style button.
3. On the Properties page of the pop-up thematic map window, make the following settings: select the 'NAME' field for the label expression to generate a default style label thematic map based on the road name. Other parameters use default values.
4. On the Style page, make the following settings:

   Parameter	Value
   Font	microsoft yahei
   Font Size	15
   Alignment	Center
   Font Effect	Bold

   Other parameters use default values.
5. On the thematic map window Advanced page, make the following settings:
   Check Label Alongline to enable label alongline. Also check Fixed Text Angle. Other parameters use default values.
6. Modify the display style of RoadLine1. In the Layer Manager, select the RoadLine1 layer, right-click, and choose Layer Style from the context menu. In the Layer Style window, set the line type to System0, line width to 0.6 mm, and line color settings to RGB(121,57,4).

   After completing the above settings, the display effects are as shown in the following figure:

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Step 1 Data Preparation

Step 3 Configuring the Basemap and Map Surround Elements