Authors:
Marko Stojanović
1
;
Siniša Drobnjak
1
;
Jasmina M. Jovanović
2
;
Nenad Galjak
3
and
Ana Vučićević
4
Affiliations:
1
Military Geographical Institute, Mije Kovačevića 5, Belgrade, Serbia
;
2
Faculty of Geography, University of Belgrade, Studentski trg 3/3, Belgrade, Serbia
;
3
Military Academy, University of Defense, Pavla Jurišića Šturma 33, Belgrade, Serbia
;
4
PE “Roads of Serbia”, Brodarska bb, Belgrade, Serbia
Keyword(s):
GIS, Automatic Cartographic Generalization, Digital Topographic Maps, Geospatial Database, PYTHON.
Abstract:
Cartographic generalization is a creative process of abstraction, which is used in the design and content preparation of topographic maps. It includes the study of the geographic environment, processing of geographic data, and an evaluation with regard to type, purpose, and scale of the map, or selecting and merging their graphical presentation, with a big or small degree of abstraction. In the era of digital cartography more attention is paid to developing tools for automatic generalization of cartographic content. In this paper, automatic cartographic generalization is analyzed based on PYTHON programming language for production of digital topographic map scale 1:50 000 (DTM50) from digital topographic map scale 1:25 000 (DTM25).