Source: mapbox-polylabel Section: libdevel Priority: optional Maintainer: Debian GIS Project Uploaders: Bas Couwenberg Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13), libmapbox-geometry-dev, rapidjson-dev Standards-Version: 4.6.2 Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/debian-gis-team/mapbox-polylabel/ Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/debian-gis-team/mapbox-polylabel.git Homepage: https://github.com/mapbox/polylabel Rules-Requires-Root: no Package: libmapbox-polylabel-dev Architecture: all Depends: libmapbox-geometry-dev, ${misc:Depends} Description: Fast algorithm for finding polygon pole of inaccessibility polylabel provides a fast algorithm for finding polygon pole of inaccessibility, the most distant internal point from the polygon outline (not to be confused with centroid). Useful for optimal placement of a text label on a polygon. . It's an iterative grid algorithm, inspired by the paper by Garcia-Castellanos & Lombardo, 2007. Unlike the one in the paper, this algorithm: . * guarantees finding global optimum within the given precision * is many times faster (10-40x)