Spatially Efficient Design of Annotated Metro Maps
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2013
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The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
Abstract
Annotating metro maps with thumbnail photographs is a commonly used technique for guiding travelers. However, conventional methods usually suffer from small labeling space around the metro stations, especially when they are interchange stations served by two or more metro lines. This paper presents an approach for aesthetically designing schematic metro maps while ensuring effective placement of large annotation labels that are sufficiently close to their corresponding stations. Our idea is to distribute such labels in a well-balanced manner to labeling regions around the metro network first and then adjust the lengths of metro line and leader line segments, which allows us to fully maximize the space coverage of the entire annotated map. This is accomplished by incorporating additional constraints into the conventional mixed-integer programming formulation, while we devised a three-step algorithm for accelerating the overall optimization process. We include several design examples to demonstrate the spatial efficiency of the map layout generated using the proposed approach through minimal user intervention.
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@article{10.1111:cgf.12113,
journal = {Computer Graphics Forum},
title = {{Spatially Efficient Design of Annotated Metro Maps}},
author = {Wu, Hsiang-Yun and Takahashi, Shigeo and Hirono, Daichi and Arikawa, Masatoshi and Lin, Chun-Cheng and Yen, Hsu-Chun},
year = {2013},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd.},
ISSN = {1467-8659},
DOI = {10.1111/cgf.12113}
}