Re: st: Labels in spmap

[Alexis Captanian <acaptanian@gmail.com>]

Thank you, Sergiy, David, and Scott. I actually did see those archive
posts when I was searching, but I didn't even realize that that was
what I needed! Many thanks to you for bringing them to my attention!

Best,
Alexis Captanian

On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 5:46 PM, Scott Merryman
<scott.merryman@gmail.com> wrote:
> Here is an example creating a labels data set that has long region
> names split into two lines.  Take a look at the Friuli-Venezia Giulia
> and Trentino-Alto Adige regions in the north east.
>
> This is adapted from Maurizio Pisati's message:
> http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2012-09/msg00817.html
>
>
>  use "Italy-RegionsData.dta", clear
>
>  generate label = region
>
>  keep id xcoord ycoord label
>  gen length = length(label)
>  split label if length > 15
>  replace label1 = label if label1 == ""
>  drop label
>  reshape long label, i(id x y) j(labtype)
>  drop if label == ""
>
>  save "Labels.dta", replace
>
>  use "Italy-RegionsData.dta", clear
>  spmap using "Italy-RegionsCoordinates.dta", id(id) ///
>  label(data("Labels.dta") x(xcoord) y(ycoord) ///
>  label(label)  by(labtype) size(*0.7 ..) position(0 6) length(21))
>
> Scott
>
>
>
>>>> On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 5:06 PM, Alexis Captanian
>>> <acaptanian@gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> > Hi Statalist,
>>>> >
>>>> > I'm trying to fit labels into regions of a choropleth map, but many
>>> of
>>>> > the labels are spilling out of their respective regions and
>>>> > overlapping with each other. I would like to solve this problem by
>>>> > making some labels appear as two lines, but I do not know how to do
>>>> > this. I'm using spmap in Stata 11.2 on a Mac.
>>>> >
>>>> > For example, instead of:
>>>> >
>>>> > Los Angeles
>>>> >
>>>> > I would like the label to appear:
>>>> >
>>>> > Los
>>>> > Angeles
>>>> >
>>>> > Decreasing the text size did not solve the overlap problem.
>>>> >
>>>> > Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I'm new to Stata so I
>>>> > apologize if this is extremely elementary. I searched the archives
>>> and
>>>> > other resources but didn't find an answer.
>>>> >
>>>> > Thank you very much,
>>>> > Alexis Captanian
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