A combined approach to cartographic displacement for buildings based on skeleton and improved elastic beam algorithm.

Scale reduction from source to target maps inevitably leads to conflicts of map symbols in cartography and geographic information systems (GIS). Displacement is one of the most important map generalization operators and it can be used to resolve the problems that arise from conflict among two or mor...

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Main Authors: Yuangang Liu, Qingsheng Guo, Yageng Sun, Xiaoya Ma
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4254966?pdf=render