PolygonTranslator - learning to simplify building footprints from one scale to another

Feng, Yu; Qian, Ning; Fu, Cheng; Zhou, Zhiyong; Sester, Monika

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PolygonTranslator - learning to simplify building footprints from one scale to another

Yu Feng, Ning Qian, Cheng Fu, Zhiyong Zhou, and Monika Sester

Yu Feng

Chair of Cartography and Visual Analytics, Technical University of Munich, Germany

Ning Qian

Institute of Cartography and Geoinformatics, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany

Cheng Fu

Department of Geography, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Zhiyong Zhou

Department of Geography, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Monika Sester

Institute of Cartography and Geoinformatics, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany

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