1st Edition

GIS And Generalisation Methodology And Practice

Edited By J-P Lagrange, R Weibel, Jean-Claude Muller Copyright 1995
276 Pages
by CRC Press

280 Pages
by CRC Press

This text is the inaugural book in Taylor and Francis's GISDATA series, and is derived from the specialist workshop convened under the auspices of the European Science Foundation's GISDATA Scientific Programme. Generalisation is an integrating tool for the analysis and presentation of spatial data. Effective spatial data analysis requires multiple views of the world at various scales with... Read more
Generalisation: State of the Art and Issues; GIS-Based Compilation and Generalisation; Three Essential Building Blocks for Automated Generalisation; Data and Knowledge Modelling for Generalisation; Controlling the Effects of Generalisation on GIS Map Manipulations; A Hierarchical top-down bottom-up Approach to Topographic Map Generalisation.

Biography

J-P Lagrange (Edited by) ,  R Weibel (Edited by) ,  Jean-Claude Muller (University of Ruhr, Bochum, Germany) (Edited by)