Day: 14 July 2013

  • OSM Residential areas get their scales determined

    OSM data have no compilation scale information, so we (Chris Kempf, Pascal Neis, Max Rylov and Andreas Reimer) found an efficient way to calculate scale equivalencies for residential areas. While the paper with the description of our linear-time method is under review, please do check out the visualized results! http://openmapsurfer.uni-hd.de/scale-determinator.html Note: the tile server for…

  • “Bending Reality, Where Arc and Science Meet” is online

    The digital version of the exhipition from the Dagstuhl seminar “Drawing Graphs and Maps with Curves” is online. It fields several cartographic as well as algorithmic contributions by members of our working group. http://www.dagstuhl.de/en/about-dagstuhl/kunst/bending-reality/