Generalisation of a 1:10k map from municipal data

This paper reports about the feasibility study carried out by the Dutch Kadaster to automatically generalise the largest scale topographical data set maintained by the Kadaster (i.e. TOP10NL) from the 1:1k topographical object oriented data set, which is currently being collected and structured by organisations that need to maintain public space such as municipalities, the railway company and provinces. The two data sets do not only differ in scale but also with respect to objectives, source data, application domain, providers, acquisition method and rules, and definition of topology. Therefore not only a scale step has to overcome