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From: robert@texas.asd.sgi.com (Robert Skinner)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: problem in cartography
Keywords: world
Message-ID: <1990Oct5.204950.29006@odin.corp.sgi.com>
Date: 5 Oct 90 20:49:50 GMT
References: <1990Oct5.110351.3996@cicb.fr>
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In article <1990Oct5.110351.3996@cicb.fr>, brugalle@cicb.fr (Annie
Brugalle) writes:
|> I have a problem to resolve in cartography, is there anybody who can
help me?
|> 
|> here is my problem :
|> 
|> On a map, I want to place towns with their names in boxes. Sometimes, the
|> boxes are too close to each other and names overlap.
|> 
|>  Do you know about an algorithm which allows a good placement of the 
|> boxes automatically ?
|> 
|> 
|> Sincerely,
|> 
|> My e-mail : BRUGALLE@CICB.FR  

there was an article in a recent IEEE Computer Graphics and 
Applications on this subject.  I didn't read the article, but I did
get an idea of the subject matter.  I don't remember which issue
it was in either, but I know its been in the last year.

(aren't I informative?)
Robert Skinner

   Thinking quickly, the IBM System Jock uttered an incantation 
in EBCDIC and made the sign of the Terminated Fork.           
  
   The UNIX Guru only smiled and trapped him in a recursive SED script.