Can anybody give me advice on how to label contours as shown in Figure 2 below? I would like to be able to put the label "on" the line, which is easy enough. But I'd also like for the contour line to have a break in between the label, as shown in Fig. 2. Without the break it is very hard to read the label, unless I use a mask with white background as in Fig 1. Maybe there is some sort of "invisible" masking option that creates the break?? I'm using ArcMap 10.1 on Windows 7 (64 bit)
Figure 1
Figure 2
Best Answer
Labeling using the Contour Placement style
Required: ArcMap
Clean (good) Data
Maplex Labeling Enabled. (see http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.1/index.html#/A_quick_tour_of_the_Labeling_toolbar/00s800000014000000/)
Official Documentation on Contour Label Placement
http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.1/index.html#//00s800000064000000