Documentation
A quick guide to perform your own integration of PAL within your favourite GIS application : [download pdf]
Publications
Initial work has been done in the context of an applied research project (more information). Thus, many publications have been written, and it's a good start to read them to know more about what PAL offers, how it works and what the results of this research project are.
Towards an automated label placement service (OGRS2009)
- Abstract and coming soon the paper within OGRS2009 Springer publication
From Point Feature Label Placement to Map Labelling (MIC'09)
- Metaheuristic International Conference, Hamburg, Germany, July 2009 [download pdf]
PAL : a cartographic labeling library (FOSS4G2008)
- Publication in PositionIT, official journal of the Geo-Information Society of South-Africa [download pdf]
POPMUSIC for the point feature label placement
- Alvim, Adriana C.F. & Taillard, Éric D., 2009. "POPMUSIC for the point feature label placement problem," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 192(2), pages 396-413, January. [download pdf]
- Metaheuristic International Conference (MIC'05), 2005, [download pdf]