Development of Automatic Names Placement Software.

Abstract

This report describes the development of a software system intended to demonstrate the capability of automatically placing geographic names on maps. The system, which is based on the previously developed AUTOCOR and AUTONAP name placement routines, is designed to label area, line, and point features in 1:24,000 scale United States Geological Survey (USGS) Digital Line Graph (DLG) maps using names extracted from corresponding USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) files. The system performs its task well provided the data in the DLG and GNIS files is of high quality. As is to be expected, the system fails in its task where the correlation between DLG features and GNIS names is unclear, ambiguous, or erroneous. The system was developed for the DEC VAX family computers running under the VMS operating system.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1987
Accession Number
ADA192786

Entities

People

  • Herbert Freeman

Organizations

  • Battelle Memorial Institute

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Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Classification
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Digital Communications
  • Digital Data
  • Engineers
  • Feature Extraction
  • Identification
  • Information Processing
  • Information Systems
  • Magnetic Tape
  • Maps
  • Operating Systems
  • Security
  • United States
  • Virginia

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  • Computer science

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  • Database Systems and Applications
  • Geodesy
  • International Journalism and Media Studies.