The Application of Computation and Automatic Drawing Instruments to Structural Generalisation

TLDR: An account of a series of experiments in computer generalisation, in which the outline of the Netherlands at 1:25 000 scale has been used to generate aseries of generalisations between 1:600 000 and 1:3 500 000.

Abstract: This is an account of a series of experiments in computer generalisation, in which the outline of the Netherlands at 1:25 000 scale has been used to generate a series of generalisations between 1:600 000 and 1:3 500 000. Eight examples are reproduced, six of which compare the automatic generalisation with one taken from the Atlas of the Netherlands and the other two compare automatic generalisation using all digitised coordinates with that derived from using mean values of successive coordinates.The article was first published in Tijdschrift voor Kadaster en Landmeetkunde, 1969, 6, Leiden, under the title, “Toepassing van de reken-en-tekenautomaat bij structurele generalisatie” and is published here by kind permission of the Editors.