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http://dx.doi.org/10.6109/jkiice.2020.24.10.1355

Map Labeling for Collinear Sites  

Kim, Jae-hoon (Division of Computer Software, Busan University of Foreign Studies)
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Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering / v.24, no.10, 2020 , pp. 1355-1360 More about this Journal
Abstract
In a map, placing the labels, corresponding to names or explanations of specific features, is called map labeling. In this paper, n points on a line are given, and placing rectangular labels for the points is considered. Particularly, the labels have a same height and their lower sides lie on a straight line in the upper of the line on which the given points are. The points and the labels are connected by polygonal lines, which are called leader lines. The leader lines are classified into straight leader lines and bended leader lines, where the straight leader line consists of only the vertical line and the bended leader line consists of vertical, horizontal, vertical lines. The problem is placing the labels to minimize the number of bended leader lines, and we propose an O(nlogn)-time algorithm, which improves the O(n2)-time algorithm previously provided in [13].
Keywords
map labeling; label; polygonal line; leader line; bended leader line;
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