Module 2, Map of Florida

This lab was about the importants of all the map elements, specifically labeling. We learned the differences of labeling points (cities), lines (rivers), and polygons (swamps and marshes). My map shows all of the important features in florida, including important rivers, cities, the capital of Florida, Okefenokee Swamp, and the Everglades. The water features are in italics and the cities are in regular font. The font I used was Bodoni MT because I thought it looked sleek and easy to read. To label I used ArcGIS pro's labeling function for all labels. For the rivers I customized by placing the labels in river placement curved above the river. I learned how to use the convert labels to annotations to have more control of the location of the labels. I made the Everglades label fit the entirety of the largest part of the everglades. Here are three more customizations I made: The first customization I made was in the label properties for rivers, under position->conflict resolution under remove duplicate labels I removed within a fixed distance of 150 points. I think this made the rivers look less crowded. The second customization I made was to move all point labels to the upper right corner. According to the lecture this is the best location for a point label. The last customization I made was changing the capitals symbol to a star to indicated that it is an important city and is different from the other cities