A Hierarchical Coordinate System for Geoprocessing and Cartography

• Main Author: Dutton, Geoffrey H. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 1999.
• Edition: 1st ed. 1999.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences, 79
• Subjects: Geographical information systems.; Earth sciences.; Geographical Information Systems/Cartography.; Earth Sciences, general.

When spatial data is digitized for use in geographic information systems and other software, information about its original scale, resolution and accuracy is frequently lost. As a result, using such information at different scales and combining it with data from other sources may be difficult. Mappi...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction and Problem Statement
• Historical and Conceptual Background
• Computational Aspects of a Quaternary Triangular Mesh
• Using QTM to Support Map Generalization
• QTM Scale Filtering: Tests and Evaluations
• New Approaches to Cartographic Questions
• Quaternary Triangular Mesh Data Processing
• Basic, Computational and Invented Geospatial Terms
• Generalization Experiments: Statistical Results
• Generalization Experiments: Cartographic Results
• Efficiency of QTM as a Spatial Index for Point Data.