Title
Morphing of Building Footprints Using a Turning Angle Function.
Abstract
We study the problem of morphing two polygons of building footprints at two different scales. This problem frequently occurs during the continuous zooming of interactive maps. The ground plan of a building footprint on a map has orthogonal characteristics, but traditional morphing methods cannot preserve these geographic characteristics at intermediate scales. We attempt to address this issue by presenting a turning angle function-based morphing model (TAFBM) that can generate polygons at an intermediate scale with an identical turning angle for each side. Thus, the orthogonal characteristics can be preserved during the entire interpolation. A case study demonstrates that the model yields good results when applied to data from a building map at various scales. During the continuous generalization, the orthogonal characteristics and their relationships with the spatial direction and topology are well preserved.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.3390/ijgi6060173
ISPRS INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GEO-INFORMATION
Keywords
Field
DocType
turning angle function,morphing,building footprint,continuous generalization
Computer vision,Morphing,Polygon,Interpolation,Zoom,Footprint,Artificial intelligence,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
Citations 
6
6
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.37
13
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jingzhong Li1143.00
Xingong Li2145.79
Xie Tian3556.43