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Periodic Multi-labeling of Public Transit Lines

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Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2010)

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We designed and implemented a simple and fast heuristic for placing multiple labels along edges of a planar network. As a testbed, real-world data from Google Transit is taken: our implementation outputs an overlay onto Google Maps, adding route numbers to public transit lines.

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  1. Helsinki Institute for Information Technology, CS Department, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 68, FI-00014, Finland

    Valentin Polishchuk & Arto Vihavainen

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  1. University of Zurich, 8057, Zurich, Switzerland

    Sara Irina Fabrikant  & Tumasch Reichenbacher  & 

  2. Utrecht University, 3508, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Marc van Kreveld

  3. University of Bamberg, 96047, Bamberg, Germany

    Christoph Schlieder

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Polishchuk, V., Vihavainen, A. (2010). Periodic Multi-labeling of Public Transit Lines. In: Fabrikant, S.I., Reichenbacher, T., van Kreveld, M., Schlieder, C. (eds) Geographic Information Science. GIScience 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6292. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15300-6_13

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