Better label placement for polygons
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: