OpenStreetMap
Cartographic generalisation
Posted by Tomas Straupis on 19 January 2022 in English. Last updated on 24 January 2022.
“Cartographic generalization, or map generalization, <…> is a core part of cartographic design.”
Yet it is quite often unknown or understood incorrectly/partly. This article has a pretty good description of generalisation, it’s purpose, history and main operators with some examples of where OSM-Carto is missing generalisation.
Discussion
Comment from Marcos Dione on 24 January 2022 at 10:56
That newsly site seems to just pick up semi/pseudo random articles from wikipedia and repost them verbatim. Here’s the original: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartographic_generalization
Comment from Tomas Straupis on 24 January 2022 at 12:51
Oh, that’s how newsly works. Yes indeed, newsly did look strange as had a number of very different and very specific topics. Was brought up to me by google alert.
Thank you, I’ve changed the link.