We've had a number of folks writing in on Ask a Cartographer wondering how to displace or offset coincident points so all the points could be seen. Data with coincident points is most commonly produced as a result of geocoding addresses. There are at least two ways to handle displaying this data. One would be to create a graduated or proportional symbol thematic map, and to do that the input point data would be processed with the Collect Events tool, which would produce output containing points that represented the locations and an attribute that indicated how many points were at that location. Read More...
