Exploring the 3D BAG: How to define it and to what extent can it automatically be created using open data

Storing Massive TINs in a DBMS: A comparison and a prototype implementation of the multistar approach

Solutions have been introduced to handle massive point clouds in Database Management Systems (DBMS), namely by Oracle in 2011 and postgreSQL in 2013. Many common operations on these massive point clouds require knowledge about the original surface in order to analyse them. A possible method to recreate a representation of the original surface is...

Specifying requirements for Automatic Generalisation of Electronic Navigational Charts

This short summary helps to grasp the motive behind the research, its objectives and to find out what is presented on the following pages of the report. It offers a condensed, one page recapitulation of its contents and intentions and suggests who might be interested to read it. CONTEXT Map generalisation is a tedious task, requiring skilled...

Exploring the possibilities of production of a culture codes dataset on cadastral parcel level by making use of external source datasets

Sharing and reusing spatial data becomes more and more important. One way of reusing shared spatial data is by creating a new dataset by making use of spatial data available in a combination of external datasets. This has been the central theme in this thesis, as its main objective has been to explore the possibilities of producing a culture...