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  1. Department of Geography, Spatial Data Handling Division, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057, Zurich, Switzerland

    Robert Weibel

  2. University of Glamorgan, School of Computing, Pontypridd, CF37 1DL, Wales, United Kingdom

    Christopher B. Jones

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Weibel, R., Jones, C.B. Computational Perspectives on Map Generalization. GeoInformatica 2, 307–314 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1009748903798

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