ABSTRACT
Cartography is considered as the science of describing and documenting the earth's surface by collecting knowledge on its structure and relief, called geoinformation, providing it to public and private users as standardized digital spatial data and analogue maps, and looking for the legal aspects of property on land as well. Research and development for methods and algorithms to solve these generalization processes have not been completed until now. Map production is an important, but not the only, goal of a topographic-cartographic information system of the Surveying and Mapping Agencies, considering the upcoming use of modern digital techniques by the traditional users of our data, too. Already the demand for basic digital information on the earth's surface has become so large that there are problems satisfying all needs. In this sense, it is important to carry out generalization not only for production of topographic maps.
