Hybrid Polyline Simplification for GIS Vector Map Data Compression
This paper presents a GIS vector map data compression scheme based on hybrid polyline simplification method and SEC(spatial energy compaction) The proposed method extracts all layers which contain polylines in the GIS vector map and compress all polylines in extracted layers by the hybrid polyline simplification and SEC based on MAE(minimum area error) for each segment in the line. The proposed simplification and SEC increase the compression ratio while preserving the shape quality. We analyze the visual aspects and compression efficiency between the original GIS vector map and the compressed map. From experimental results, we verify that our method has the higher compression efficiency and visual quality than conventional methods.