@InProceedings{chang_et_al:LIPIcs.ESA.2018.16, author = {Chang, Hsien-Chih and Gawrychowski, Pawel and Mozes, Shay and Weimann, Oren}, title = {{Near-Optimal Distance Emulator for Planar Graphs}}, booktitle = {26th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2018)}, pages = {16:1--16:17}, series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)}, ISBN = {978-3-95977-081-1}, ISSN = {1868-8969}, year = {2018}, volume = {112}, editor = {Azar, Yossi and Bast, Hannah and Herman, Grzegorz}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2018.16}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-94796}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2018.16}, annote = {Keywords: planar graphs, shortest paths, metric compression, distance preservers, distance emulators, distance oracles} }