A: Complex labels can be done in many software through the use of rule-based labelling. These rules would allow to put the labels as needed. What are some of the complex labels that you require for ATS route segments? (Antonio)
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Hi Antonio! Thanks for looking into this. A solution in the regular version of ArcGIS is fine, even I don't have the Aviation Solution. If too much trouble, a solution in QGIS would work just as well. From what I have seen so far during the course, I should be able to translate what you are doing in QGIS into ArcGIS, without too much trouble 😉
This is an example of how it looks in QGIS, you can see it is possible the one directional and doing both ways should be trivial. Of course then you will need to do some QA/QC that depending on the length of characters for the distance for example everything falls inside the background but it is doable.
Hi based on this question I can say I never ever used the Aviation Solution with ESRI and just used the plain vanilla version, I think there are some ways to do the labelling you are requesting in ESRI and of course in QGIS.
I would love to give an answer using ESRI but unfortunately I don't have a license available in my computer and I believe answering this would require a commercial license from our side.
Let me see if I can ask around about this issue. If not I will need to provide a QGIS solution, however I would hate it that you decide to let go completely of your current workflow because of something like this
We will take a look at the possibilities and show them in a later session, it will take a while to analyse the possibilities for route/routesegment labels.
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Updated comments from the OP at the webinar: Many thanks for providing these webinars. Much appreciated and I thoroughly enjoyed yesterday's session.
I need to provide some clarification regarding the question I formulated for the QGIS webinar.
First, some back background... I have been using ArcGIS Desktop 10.2 for a while now. Since, at work, I wasn't able to obtain the Aviation solution from Esri, my challange has been to "push the limits" in ArcGIS Desktop and/or AutoCAD, to create ICAO-standard Aeronautical Charts.
Now the issue... One stumbling block has beed the labeling engine in ArcGIS Desktop, which I found pretty limiting when used for creating the more complex labels needed for aeronautical cartography (agreed that it hasn't been designed for this in the first place).
I have attached below a snippet from the ICAO ENRC specimen, where you can see how labels for route segments are supposed to look. This label is not at all strait-forward to implement in ArcGIS Desktop. I am not talking about the data aspect - let's assume that I have all the necessary data in the attribute table of a line feature. The challenge is to create the double-sided arrow shape of the label (and single-sided arrow for unidirectional routes), which is not strait-forward to do in ArcGIS Desktop. And then there is the issue of multiple labels for a route segment, because there need to separate labels for the magnetic track, in both directions. Multiple labels for a single feature is not possible, as far as I know, in ArcGIS. I guess I should create three overlapping features for each segment, each with it's own label?
Do you know a work around to generate these labels in ArcGIS or QGIS?
I previously had a look at QGIS. I was interested to find out if the labeling engine in QGIS offers functionalities that ArcGIS doesn't. I couldn't find any, so I stuck with ArcGIS, but I would be happy to revisit QGIS based on your reply and the webinar.
Again, depending on the level of detail required and the method of data import you may need to combine data from different Featuretypes to get what you need. Most is on RouteSegment but you also need the Route (designator) and possibly the Location part aligned to the route. We may look at this in future videos to show what could be done.