Chapter 1Introduction(1)
1.1MultiScale Spatial Representation(1)
1.2Motivation: the Need for Automated MultiScale Spatial
Representation(2)
1.3State of the Art on MultiScale Spatial Representation(4)
1.4Objectives and Scope of This Book(9)
1.5Structure of This Book(10)
Chapter 2State of the Art on Selective Omission in a Road Network(12)
2.1Issues on Selective Omission in a Road Network(12)
2.2Approaches to Selective Omission in a Road Network(21)
Chapter 3Experimental Analysis of Various Issues on Selective Omission
in a Road Network(39)
3.1Comparison of Various Strategies to concatenate Road
Segments into Strokes(39)
3.2Comparison of Various Measures to Determine the Importance of
Individual Roads(60)
3.3Determination of Thresholds for Selective Omission Parameters(74)
Chapter 4Experimental Analysis of Various Approaches to Selective
Omission in a Road Network(90)
4.1Comparison of General Approaches to Selective Omission
in a Road Network(90)
4.2Comparison of Machine Learning Approaches to Selective
Omission in a Road Network(97)
4.3Investigation of How Many Training Samples Are Needed by
Using a Machine Learning Approach to Selective Omission(110)
Chapter 5Applications(119)
5.1Construction of Road Hierarchies for Continuous MultiScale
Selective Omission(119)
5.2Use of a Machine Learning Approach for Road Network
Updating(128)
5.3Summary(134)
Chapter 6Summary and Outlook(137)
6.1Summary of this Book(137)
6.2Limitations(140)
6.3Future Research Issues(142)
References(144)