I am looking for existing solutions (softwares, libraries, methods, etc.) to automate the generalisation/simplification of geographical data as presented there, and also there.
Do you know and use some tools to simplify your geographical data?
I already had a look at these ones:
The ICA commission on generalisation and multiple representation website is a huge information source on this topic. Many papers presents advanced methods and use cases related to this topic.
The very famous douglass & peucker filtering algorithm is often used for geometrical simplification and is present in almost all GIS softwares. However, its effect is to make geometries very bony/angular without really simplifying the geometry shape. For example, it is not very adapted for lines representing roads or rivers, that have to be smooth and not angular.
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