Tag maps label placement

I wanted to create a short animation that illustrates the label placement algorithm for tag maps, placing labels in descending order, based on importance, and in several discrete classes on the map. Since the final tag maps visualization is still only implemented in ArcMap / ArcPro, I needed to automate the map generation.

 

This was done with ArcPy, a python package that allows automation of the ArcMap interface. Afterwards, the generated image sequence was combined to a video in Adobe Premiere.

Done