INTERGEO Agenda - english

Maps and cartographic products convey spatial information in a targeted and purpose-driven manner. In this context, generalisation, i.e. the correct and transparent selection and presentation of content, remains indispensable even in the 21st century, particularly in the creation of high-quality Digital Topographic Maps (DTK). Precisely because it seems so easy today to create maps and make them available online, surveying agencies attach great importance to adhering to cartographic principles when producing their official map series. The ATKIS-1Gen project is an initiative of the German states of HE, RP, SH, and HH within the ATKIS Generalisation Implementation Partnership, aimed at adapting and further developing existing generalisation algorithms and workflows to meet new requirements for IT infrastructure, IT security, and customer needs. In cooperation with 1Spatial (now part of VertiGIS), the project is developing modern and flexible generalisation workflows for the automatic derivation of Digital Landscape Models and Digital Topographic Maps at various resolutions and scales. The feature to incrementally update changes to landscape objects moreover offers an efficient approach to incorporating relevant changes into the DTK-database without the need to derive a full statewide dataset anew.