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Description: Digital maps are important for many decision-making tasks that require situational awareness, navigation, or location-specific data. Often, digital mapping tools must generate a map that displays labels near associated features in a visually appealing manner, without occluding important information. Automated label placement systems generally accomplish this nontrivial task through a combination of heuristic algorithms and cartography rules, but the resulting maps often do not reflect the preferences and needs of the map user. Here we share a dataset that was collected as part of a study to better understand people’s visual preferences for various label positions in map layouts and to support the development of new label placement algorithms that can generate map layouts that take into account those preferences.