Abstracting Geographic Information in a Data Rich World Methodologies and Applications of Map Generalisation /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Burghardt, Dirk (Editor), Duchêne, Cécile (Editor), Mackaness, William (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography,
• Subjects: Geography.; Geographical information systems.; Geographical Information Systems/Cartography.

Research in the field of automated generalisation has faced new challenges in recent years as a result of technological developments in web-based processing, new visualisation paradigms and access to very large volumes of multi-source data generated by sensors and humans. In these contexts, map gene...

Table of Contents:

• Changing contexts and new challenges
• Modelling user requirements
• Modelling geographic relationships in automated environments
• Data structures and continuous generalisation
• Integrating Multi source data and user generated content
• Generalisation operators
• Process modelling, web services and geoprocessing
• Object and field generalisation
• Evaluation and usability of map generalisation outputs
• Generalisation in the context of schematic maps / maps on mobile devices
• Generalisation in practice.