Cartographic generalization and specificities of geographical domain in Algeria

摘要

Saving both time and cost of map production has always been a concern for cartographic professionals. One of ways to do, is " to generalize", which consists in extracting from a reference map, information for a particular need and simplify their representation: a new generalized map is then ready for exploitation. However, there is a disadvantage for this technique, for it is carried out man ually. Recently, the development of digital cartography, in origin of the automation of geographic data treatment has given birth to the automatic generalization. This work joins a research axe and it is interested specifically on cartographic generalization. This latter has been the object of a lot of researches which have been studied in order to solve a big complex number of problems and this, in the objective to define a process which contains every operator able to take charge of a sequence of many gen eralization program, oriented by a specific parameterizing and this, in a predefine execution order.