Paper Info
Title
A pratical method for line labeling
Abstract
A significant visualization problem in automated cartography and Geographical Information Systems (GIS) is the map-labeling problem, which consists of placing text labels adjacent to geographic features in order to convey their meaning. In this paper, we propose one practical method for labeling line features using discrete model. A text label is treated as a sequence of axis-parallel squares considering the characteristic of Chinese character. The presented method firstly produces a candidate curve and then computes all the candidate positions. Then select labeling positions taking some esthetics criteria into account. This approach fulfills two requirements that no two labels overlap and that the label is placed alongside the corresponding curve. Experimental results illustrate that the new proposed algorithm is effective, implementation-friendly and efficient.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1109/GEOINFORMATICS.2010.5567478
Geoinformatics
Keywords
Field
DocType
visualization problem,geographic information systems,line labeling practical method,chinese character,r-tree,geographical information systems,automated cartography,map labeling,data visualisation,line feature label placement,map labeling problem,geographic information system,gis,r tree,labeling,feature extraction,interpolation,visualization,indexes
Information system,R-tree,Data mining,Geographic information system,Data visualization,Computer science,Visualization,Interpolation,Feature extraction,Map labeling
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4244-7301-4
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Shangchun Sun100.34
Hongchao Zhao2136.98
Jinyun Fang37311.00
Zhenlin Cheng401.01
Yanwei Zhao53513.48