{"id":296762,"date":"2018-08-10T11:00:35","date_gmt":"2018-08-10T18:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/?post_type=blog&#038;p=296762"},"modified":"2018-08-10T11:21:18","modified_gmt":"2018-08-10T18:21:18","slug":"how-to-make-this-map-of-rivers-using-only-labels","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-pro\/mapping\/how-to-make-this-map-of-rivers-using-only-labels","title":{"rendered":"How to Make this Map of Rivers Using Only Labels"},"author":6971,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[22941],"tags":[26451,128002,34651,204662],"industry":[],"product":[36561],"class_list":["post-296762","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mapping","tag-cartography","tag-labeling","tag-labels","tag-typographic","product-arcgis-pro"],"acf":{"short_description":"Sure, you could use a boring line to draw your rivers and then label them. But why not cut out the middle man??","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p>Sure, you could use a boring line to draw your rivers and then label them. But why not cut out the middle man??<\/p>\n<p>Here is a map of Europe&#8217;s and Africa&#8217;s rivers where the rivers are shown as just their names&#8230;<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":296782,"id":296782,"title":"EuropeAfricaExtraSmall","filename":"EuropeAfricaExtraSmall.jpg","filesize":103926,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/08\/EuropeAfricaExtraSmall.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-pro\/mapping\/how-to-make-this-map-of-rivers-using-only-labels\/europeafricaextrasmall","alt":"Click to embiggen...","author":"6971","description":"","caption":"","name":"europeafricaextrasmall","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":296762,"date":"2018-08-10 17:05:24","modified":"2018-08-10 17:05:38","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1500,"height":938,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/08\/EuropeAfricaExtraSmall.jpg","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":133,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/08\/EuropeAfricaExtraSmall.jpg","medium-width":417,"medium-height":261,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/08\/EuropeAfricaExtraSmall.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":480,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/08\/EuropeAfricaExtraSmall.jpg","large-width":1500,"large-height":938,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/08\/EuropeAfricaExtraSmall.jpg","1536x1536-width":1500,"1536x1536-height":938,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/08\/EuropeAfricaExtraSmall.jpg","2048x2048-width":1500,"2048x2048-height":938,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/08\/EuropeAfricaExtraSmall.jpg","card_image-width":744,"card_image-height":465,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/08\/EuropeAfricaExtraSmall.jpg","wide_image-width":1500,"wide_image-height":938}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/08\/EuropeAfricaSmall.jpg"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p>Before you ask me, &#8220;hey John, have you seen <a href=\"http:\/\/store.axismaps.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the typographic maps<\/a> Andy Woodruff made using only feature labels?&#8221; let me just tell you now absolutely I&#8217;ve seen them and they are gorgeous. There is something sort of magical and cognitively easing about typographic maps. If there are many types of landcover shown, like in Andy&#8217;s maps, the features are immediately keyed to their type or name. No reason to choose where\/how to label because the thing itself <em>is<\/em> a label. And your brain thanks you for not making it load up a key of symbols into its leaky working memory while your eyes dart back to the map. The data is encoded directly as the features. That&#8217;s pretty great.<\/p>\n<p>When you strip it back to only show a single sort of feature, like rivers, you get a sense of flow and hierarchy, the river names painting in the density and length naturally and sort of wonderfully.<\/p>\n<p>Creating a typographic map of rivers in ArcGIS Pro is actually really straightforward. Why don&#8217;t I just shut up and show you?<\/p>\n<p>Here are the major steps:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Label with &#8220;River Placement&#8221;, centered and curved right over the feature.<\/li>\n<li>Do not remove duplicate labels and give them a minuscule separation interval.<\/li>\n<li>Leave river layer turned on but turn off all of its symbology layers.<\/li>\n<li>Break out your rivers by size and scale each layer&#8217;s labels accordingly.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here is my map, with unlabeled rivers shown as lines..<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":296802,"id":296802,"title":"ProLines","filename":"ProLines.png","filesize":73620,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/08\/ProLines.png","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-pro\/mapping\/how-to-make-this-map-of-rivers-using-only-labels\/prolines","alt":"","author":"6971","description":"","caption":"","name":"prolines","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":296762,"date":"2018-08-10 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I leave the layer tuned on but uncheck all of the symbology items so labels can appear but there isn&#8217;t any line symbology getting in the way&#8230;<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":296812,"id":296812,"title":"ProNoSymbology","filename":"ProNoSymbology.png","filesize":8092,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/08\/ProNoSymbology.png","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-pro\/mapping\/how-to-make-this-map-of-rivers-using-only-labels\/pronosymbology","alt":"","author":"6971","description":"","caption":"","name":"pronosymbology","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":296762,"date":"2018-08-10 17:25:22","modified":"2018-08-10 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I play with the label properties so all I see are rivers of text&#8230;<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":296822,"id":296822,"title":"ProLabels","filename":"ProLabels.jpg","filesize":153909,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/08\/ProLabels.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-pro\/mapping\/how-to-make-this-map-of-rivers-using-only-labels\/prolabels","alt":"","author":"6971","description":"","caption":"","name":"prolabels","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":296762,"date":"2018-08-10 17:26:09","modified":"2018-08-10 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but how? No worries, here are all the settings for the label tabs that I used for my rivers (&#8220;position&#8221; is that target thing, &#8220;fitting strategy&#8221; is the knight chess piece, and &#8220;conflict resolution&#8221; is that little stack of boxes, though, if I were designing the icons, it would look like a little picture of Stuart Smalley)&#8230;<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":296832,"id":296832,"title":"ProPosition","filename":"ProPosition.png","filesize":9776,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/08\/ProPosition.png","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-pro\/mapping\/how-to-make-this-map-of-rivers-using-only-labels\/proposition","alt":"","author":"6971","description":"","caption":"","name":"proposition","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":296762,"date":"2018-08-10 17:31:40","modified":"2018-08-10 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I split my river layer up into several layers, based on river size, using definition queries (with the layer selected, go to the Data tab, then expand the Definition Query section)&#8230;<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":296872,"id":296872,"title":"DefinitionQuery","filename":"DefinitionQuery.png","filesize":6936,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/08\/DefinitionQuery.png","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-pro\/mapping\/how-to-make-this-map-of-rivers-using-only-labels\/definitionquery","alt":"","author":"6971","description":"","caption":"","name":"definitionquery","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":296762,"date":"2018-08-10 17:35:11","modified":"2018-08-10 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I gave larger rivers bigger font sizes and bolder colors and smaller rivers smaller font sizes and lighter colors.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":296892,"id":296892,"title":"LabelSymbol","filename":"LabelSymbol.png","filesize":11274,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/08\/LabelSymbol.png","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-pro\/mapping\/how-to-make-this-map-of-rivers-using-only-labels\/labelsymbol","alt":"","author":"6971","description":"","caption":"","name":"labelsymbol","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":296762,"date":"2018-08-10 17:38:57","modified":"2018-08-10 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Why?<\/h3>\n<p>Well, I mean, in addition to it being cool looking and stuff, sometimes there are practical applications for mapping only one feature type without supporting context&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It can communicate a fuller and more focused structure that might otherwise be diluted by additional layers.<\/li>\n<li>It engages an audience perhaps more than a standard map.<\/li>\n<li>It illustrates a phenomenon as being a critical element to an ecosystem, so fundamental to a place that locations can be recognized just with that single layer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So, if you work for a department of transportation and need to capture attention for a planned roadway among other roads, or if you are on a planning department and want to illustrate the availability of local waterways, or if you are on a parks department and want to make a promotional map of all the hiking trails, or if you work for a utility and want to show a de-cluttered but information-dense view of your network, then 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And lastly, if you can surprise and delight someone with a map, then the message that map carries has an infinitely better chance of making it home.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Typographic Mapping! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/John_M_Nelson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John<\/a><\/p>\n"}],"authors":[{"ID":6971,"user_firstname":"John","user_lastname":"Nelson","nickname":"John Nelson","user_nicename":"j_nelson","display_name":"John Nelson","user_email":"John_Nelson@esri.com","user_url":"http:\/\/www.adventuresinmapping.com","user_registered":"2018-03-02 00:19:05","user_description":"I have far too much fun looking for ways to understand and present data visually, hopefully driving product strategy and engaging users. I work in the ArcGIS Living Atlas team at Esri, pushing and pulling data in all sorts of absurd ways and then sharing the process. 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