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The paper presents a best practice approach for the generalisation of polygon data in a GIS environment.
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Skopeliti, A. (2011). Best Pratices for Polygon Generalisation from medium to small Scale in a GIS Framework. In: Ruas, A. (eds) Advances in Cartography and GIScience. Volume 1. Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography(). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-19143-5_29
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