Potential solutions for this predicament include generalizing the data so there are fewer segments, creating multiple maps at larger scales, and highlighting only segments that are above or below a certain threshold while keeping the remaining segments a neutral color. With some added effort, a hotspot map could be created by analyzing the data for clusters of high‑ or low‑attribute values, delineating a circle around those values using the statistical results, then displaying the hotspots around the otherwise neutrally colored stream data. In this way you are essentially doing the viewer’s work for them. Of course, if your data do not show true cluster trends, then this will not be the approach for you. labelS