Nice, is it the same method as this: http://proceedings.esri.com/library/userconf/proc01/professional/papers/pap388/p388.htm
Barry > Surprisingly, the resulting R code is quite fast (no doubt due to the > very efficient rgeos package!). For a simple polygon it takes just a > fraction of a second. And it can calculate label position for all the > polygons in the ‘rworldmap’ world polygons in a few seconds. The > resulting label placement also seems very good. Here’s the code: > -- blog: http://geospaced.blogspot.com/ web: http://www.maths.lancs.ac.uk/~rowlings web: http://www.rowlingson.com/ twitter: http://twitter.com/geospacedman pics: http://www.flickr.com/photos/spacedman _______________________________________________ R-sig-Geo mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-geo
