A Pattern-Based Approach to Support Automatic Homogeneous Map Labeling with Texts, Charts and Other Elements in a WMS
Enrique Andreu, Rubén Béjar, Sergio Mart́ınez · 2006
This paper offers two contributions to the map labeling problem: first of all the “generic label” analysis pattern is defined, in order to allow the homogenous treatment, in a software with GIS visualization and/or printing capabilities, of text labels, statistical charts, graphic icons and other elements that have information about the features on a map and are drawn on top of it. The second contribution is an approach, based on simulated annealing, to efficiently support map labeling with generic labels. Some results, examples of different maps labeled and their rendering times, will be presented to show the viability of this approach implemented in a Web Map Service.