This document provides instructions for adding labels to map layers in GIS software. It explains that you right click on the layer, choose labels, and select the field, font, and color for the labels. It also notes that if adding your own shapefile, you need to include a field called LABEL to add appropriate text labels that can then be displayed.

1. Adding labels to a layer

3. Right click on the map layer & choose labels (could set symbology first)

4. Choose field for the labels, font, colour etc. and apply...

6. If adding your own shapefile, ensure that you add a field, which could be called LABEL, to add an appropriate text label to the polygons / points / lines that you are creating... This can then be selected as before to display the label values that you have entered….