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Label vector data, part 2

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Label vector data, part 2

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- [Instructor] It's still difficult to see those labels inside of each of the parcels on top of the raster. So even though we've made the text really small and it fits inside each of the parcels, we can't see it when it's overtop of the aerial photograph. So we're going to have to fix that. So what we have to do is make a buffer, or halo. So we're going to pick on buffer under the labels, we're going to draw a text buffer and hit apply. Now that's still a little big so what I'm going to do is I'm going to change it to .5 and see how that looks. Hit apply, and okay. So that's a lot better, now we can see the text inside of each of the parcels on our map. Now some of them, they're aligned a little funny because it's over to one side, it looks like it's left justified, and why it's labeling that way is the geographic center of an object is also called a centroid. That's the dead-center of any of these polygons that were labeling…

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