ABSTRACT
The remainder of this chapter is set out as follows. Section 9.2 provides some background information on Mobile GIS. Section 9.3 looks into map generalisation requirements from a MobileGIS perspective. Section 9.4 introduces schematic maps and gives a short review of previous automated solutions to the problem of schematic map generation. Section 9.5 outlines the key generalisation processes involved in the production of schematic maps. Section 9.6 contains a description of the simulated annealing-based schematic map generator algorithm that forms the basis for this chapter. A prototype implementation of this algorithm is described in Section 9.7, and some experimental results are presented. The chapter concludes in Section 9.8 with a summary of the results and a discussion of future work.
