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GVMAP(1)		    General Commands Manual		      GVMAP(1)

NAME
       gvmap  -	find clusters and create a geographical	map highlighting clus-
       ters.

SYNOPSIS
       gvmap [ options ] [ -o outfile ]	[ files	]

DESCRIPTION
       gvmap takes as input a graph in DOT format,  finds  node	 clusters  and
       produces	a rendering of the graph as a geographic-style map, with clus-
       ters highlighted	as countries, in xdot format.

       In  the input graph, each node must have	position, width	and height in-
       formation (pos, width and height	attributes, respectively) defined, and
       nodes must not overlap.

       By default, gvmap will generate the clusters from the data. If desired,
       the input graph can specify cluster information by giving every node  a
       cluster attribute whose value is	a small	positive integer. (It is works
       best  if	cluster	values are all integers	in the interval	[1,K] for some
       K. Nodes	sharing	the same cluster attribute value will be put into  the
       same cluster. N.B. For the cluster attribute to be used,	all nodes must
       have a valid value.

       If  the -D flag is used,	gvmap will use the top-level cluster subgraphs
       to determine the	clustering. Any	nodes not in such a  cluster  will  be
       put into	a single catch-all cluster.

       If  the	input  specifies the desired clustering	as described above, it
       can also	specify	a desired coloring by having some node in each cluster
       provide a clustercolor attribute. N.B. Unless one specifies  -c0,  only
       the  clustercolor of the	last node in a cluster has an effect. In addi-
       tion, unless one	uses -O, gvmap may permute the given colors.

OPTIONS
       The following options are supported:

       -a k   The integer k specifies the average number of artificial	points
	      added  along  the	 bounding  box	of the labels. Such artificial
	      points are added to avoid	a country boundary cutting through the
	      boundary box of the labels. Computing time is proportional to k;
	      hence, for large graphs, a small value of	k is suggested.	If k =
	      -1, a suitable value of k	is automatically selected based	on the
	      graph size. By default k = -1.

       -b v   The real number v	specifies the line  width  used	 to  draw  the
	      polygon boundaries, with v < 0 for no line. By default v = 0.

       -c k   The  integer  k  specifies  color	scheme used to color the coun-
	      tries. By	default	k = 1.

	  Acceptable values are:
		 0 : no	polygons
		 1 : pastel
		 2 : blue to yellow
		 3 : white to red
		 4 : light grey	to red
		 5 : primary colors
		 6 : sequential	single hue red
		 7 : sequential	single hue lighter red
		 8 : light grey

       -c_opacity=xy
	      Specifies	a  two-character  hexadecimal  string  specifying  the
	      opacity of the polygons.

       -C d   The  integer  d  specifies the maximum number of clusters	(coun-
	      tries) allowed. By default d = 0,	which means that there	is  no
	      limit.

       -d d   The  integer  d  specifies the random seed used during color as-
	      signment optimization that  maximize  color  difference  between
	      neighboring countries.

       -D     If  specified, the graph's cluster subgraphs are used to specify
	      the clustering.

       -e     If specified, edges will be included in the final	output.

       -g c   Specifies	the bounding box color.	If not specified,  a  bounding
	      box is not drawn.

       -h k   The  number  of artificial points	added to maintain a bridge be-
	      tween endpoints. By default, this	is zero.

       -highlight=k
	      Only draw	cluster	k. By default, all clusters are	drawn.

       -k     If specified, increases the randomness of	outer boundary.

       -l s   Use the string s as a label for the drawing.

       -m v   Generate a margin	of v points around the	drawing.  By  default,
	      this is determined by gvmap.

       -O     Do  NOT  do  color  assignment optimization that maximizes color
	      differences between neighboring countries

       -o<file>
	      Put output in <file>. Default output is stdout

       -p k   Indicates	what level of points should be shown. By  default,  no
	      points are shown.

	  Acceptable values are:
		 0 : no	points
		 1 : all points
		 2 : label points
		 3 : random/artificial points

       -Q     Use  modularity  quality	for clustering rather than the default
	      modularity clustering.

       -r k   The number of random points k (integer) used to define  sea  and
	      lake boundaries. If 0, auto assigned. By default v = 0

       -s v   The real number v	specifies the depth of the sea and lake	shores
	      in points. If 0, auto assigned. By default v = 0.

       -t n   Make n attempts to improve cluster contiguity.

       -v     Verbose mode.

       -z c   Specified	the polygon line color.	Default	is black.

       -?     Print usage and exit.

EXAMPLES
       Given  a	 graph	foo.gv,	one way	to generate a layout and highlight the
       clusters	is to first select a layout engine with	a suitable overlap re-
       moval method, then feed the output to gvmap, and	finally	render the map
       using specific graphics format. For  example,  the  following  pipeline
       creates	a map with edges in semi-transparent light gray	and nodes laid
       out using sfdp:

       sfdp -Goverlap=prism foo.gv | gvmap -e |	 neato	-n2  -Ecolor=#55555522
       -Tpng > foo.png

       The  shell script gvmap.sh provides a shorthand for such	pipelines. For
       example,	the above pipeline can be achieved using

       gvmap.sh	-Ae -Ecolor=#55555522 -Tpng foo.gv > foo.png

AUTHOR
       Yifan Hu	<yifanhu@yahoo.com>

SEE ALSO
       gvmap.sh(1), sfdp(1), neato(1), gvpr(1)

       E. R. Gansner, Y. Hu, S.	G. Kobourov,  "GMap:  Visualizing  graphs  and
       clusters	as maps," Proc.	Pacific	Vis. 2010, pp. 201-208.

				 3 March 2011			      GVMAP(1)

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