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2006
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14 years 12 months ago
Recognition of island structures for map generalization
In this paper we describe work on the automatic recognition of island structures. In an initial phase several test persons were asked to mark groups of islands that they perceived...
Stefan Steiniger, Dirk Burghardt, Robert Weibel
GIS
2006
ACM
14 years 12 months ago
Optimal BSPs and rectilinear cartograms
A cartogram is a thematic map that visualizes statistical data about a set of regions like countries, states or provinces. The size of a region in a cartogram corresponds to a par...
Mark de Berg, Elena Mumford, Bettina Speckmann
GIS
2006
ACM
14 years 12 months ago
Analyzing theme, space, and time: an ontology-based approach
The W3C's Semantic Web Activity is illustrating the use of semantics for information integration, search, and analysis. However, the majority of the work in this community ha...
Matthew Perry, Farshad Hakimpour, Amit P. Sheth
GIS
2006
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
B-Spline curve smoothing under position constraints for line generalisation
Currently, most of the operations performed for the construction of marine charts are still done manually. However, with the development of more and more powerful techniques, new ...
Eric Guilbert, Hui Lin 0002
GIS
2006
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Dynamic simplification and visualization of large maps
In this paper, we present an algorithm that performs simplification of large geographical maps through a novel use of graphics hardware. Given a map as a collection of non-interse...
Nabil H. Mustafa, Shankar Krishnan, Gokul Varadhan...