Spatial text visualization using automatic typographic maps

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2056-2564

  Afzal, Shehzad ^a   MacIejewski, Ross ^b   Jang, Yun ^c   Elmqvist, Niklas ^a   Ebert, David S ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Seoul Natonal University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Geovisualization; label placement; spatial data; text visualization

Indexed keywords

VECTOR SPACES; VISUALIZATION; WEB SERVICES;

GEO VISUALIZATIONS; GRAPHICAL FEATURES; LABEL PLACEMENT; SPATIAL DATA; TEXT VISUALIZATION; TRAFFIC DENSITIES; VECTOR REPRESENTATIONS; VISUAL REPRESENTATIONS;

DATA VISUALIZATION;

EID: 84867649130     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2012.264     Document Type: Article

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