Print Email Facebook Twitter The space-scale cube: An integrated model for 2D polygonal areas and scale Title The space-scale cube: An integrated model for 2D polygonal areas and scale Author Meijers, B.M. Van Oosterom, P.J.M. Faculty OTB Research Institute for the Built Environment Department OTB Research Date 2011-09-30 Abstract This paper introduces the concept of a space-scale partition, which we term the space-scale cube – analogous with the space-time cube (first introduced by Hägerstrand, 1970). We take the view of ‘map generalization is extrusion of 2D data into the third dimension’ (as introduced by Vermeij et al., 2003). An axiomatic approach formalizes the validity of the partition of space in three dimensions (2D space plus 1D scale). Furthermore the paper provides insights in how to: 1. obtain valid data for the cube, 2. obtain a valid 2D polygonal map at variable scale from the cube and 3. which other possibilities the cube brings for obtaining maps having different map scales over their domain (which we term mixed-scale maps). Subject multiresolutiontheorygeneralizationsimplificationvisualizationGIS To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:8b401ecf-5451-479f-bcfa-6af568c91310 Publisher Urban Data Management Society; OTB Research Institute for the Built Environment; Delft University of Technology Source UDMS 2011: 28th Urban Data Management Symposium, Delft, The Netherlands, September 28-30, 2011 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights (c) 2011 The Author(s) Files PDF Meijers.pdf 3.71 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:8b401ecf-5451-479f-bcfa-6af568c91310/datastream/OBJ/view