Abstract
A typical requirement in digital society is the rapid distribution and effective application of digital products. Geographical data bases are far more complex than other ones in that both attribute and spatial data have to be stored and handled under the same framework. On the other hand, the number of end users of digital cartographic data is explosively increasing, ranging from professional map makers to vehicle drivers and individual tourists. Thus arises a question: how can a data supplier give the “best” service to each user? In nature it involves such difficult problems as cartographic generalization and map simplification. In this paper, the author argues that the visual knowledge or perception experience can be effectively exploited and used to guide the process of data simplification. We have developed a prototype system with a subset of the vector road database covering Munich city.
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Yu, X. Road network simplification with knowledge-based spatial analysis. J. Geogr. Sci. 11 (Suppl 1), 54–62 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02837444
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02837444