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An important but strongly NP-hard problem in automated cartography is how to best place textual labels for point features on a static map. We examine the complexity of various generalizations of this problem for dynamic and/or interactive maps. Specifically, we show that it is strongly PSPACE/complete to decide whether there is a smooth dynamic labeling (function from time to static labelings) when the points move, when points are added and removed, or when the user pans, rotates, and/or zooms their view of the points.
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Buchin, K., Gerrits, D.H.P. (2013). Dynamic Point Labeling is Strongly PSPACE-Complete. In: Cai, L., Cheng, SW., Lam, TW. (eds) Algorithms and Computation. ISAAC 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8283. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-45030-3_25
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