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Map construction methods automatically produce and/or update street map datasets using vehicle tracking data. Enabled by the ubiquitous generation of geo-referenced tracking data, there has been a recent surge in map construction algorithms coming from different computer science domains.This chapter gives a comprehensive overview and comparison of the various algorithms by identifying and focusing on three emerging categories of map construction algorithms. For each category, the general algorithmic idea and a high-level description of the respective algorithms are presented. The overview is complemented by a detailed discussion of several representative algorithms in the following chapters.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA

    Mahmuda Ahmed

  2. School of Rural and Surveying Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Zografou, Greece

    Sophia Karagiorgou

  3. Department of Geography and Geoinformation Science, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA

    Dieter Pfoser

  4. Department of Computer Science, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, USA

    Carola Wenk

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Ahmed, M., Karagiorgou, S., Pfoser, D., Wenk, C. (2015). Map Construction Algorithms. In: Map Construction Algorithms. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25166-0_1

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