Product Overview

What Is Maplex for ArcGIS?

Maplex for ArcGIS provides advanced automated text placement for ArcGIS Desktop.

Maplex for ArcGIS enhances cartographic design with a sophisticated set of rules that allow you to automatically modify labels so they can be placed correctly the first time. Some of the text placement rules include

• Label offset
• Conflict detection
• Stacking
• Font reduction
• Curving
• Abbreviation
• Truncation

Why Use Maplex for ArcGIS?

Click to enlarge Maplex for ArcGIS gives you greater control over how labels are placed in relation to their features and how they interact with other labels on the map. This not only provides higher quality map labeling but also drastically reduces the need for manual text placement. Maplex for ArcGIS is used to

• Drastically reduce the time it takes to place labels exactly where you want them.
• Create high-quality maps with text for digital or print distribution.
• Share quality text placement by saving Maplex labels to a map document or geodatabase annotation.

Who Uses Maplex for ArcGIS?

Click to enlarge If you need to quickly produce high-quality maps, you will benefit from Maplex for ArcGIS. Maplex for ArcGIS will help you spend less time creating quality map products because you no longer need to manually edit text placement. As values in your geodatabase change, your maps created with Maplex for ArcGIS will adjust to find the best placement for the new text.

Examples of users from a wide range of industries that can leverage Maplex for ArcGIS include

• Professional cartographers
• Forest analysts
• Business demographers
• Geologists
• Municipal mapping professionals

Maplex for ArcGIS is the appropriate product for automating the creation of high-quality, annotated maps.