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

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...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Burghardt, Dirk. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Duchêne, Cécile. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Mackaness, William. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
Edition:1st ed. 2014.
Series:Publications of the International Cartographic Association (ICA),
Subjects:
Geographical information systems.
Geographical Information Systems/Cartography.
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00203-3
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.

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