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Several applications of analytical cartography are presented. They include terrain visibility (including visibility indices, viewsheds, and intervisibility), map overlay (including solving roundoff errors with C++ class libraries and computing polygon areas from incomplete information), mobility, and interpolation and approximation of curves and of terrain (including curves and surfaces in CAD/CAM, smoothing terrains with overdetermined systems of equations, and drainage patterns). General themes become apparent, such as simplicity, robustness, and the tradeoff between different data types. Finally several future applications are discussed, such as the lossy compression of correlated layers, and just good enough computation when high precision is not justified. to appear, Cartography and Geographic Information Systems, 2000 http://www.ecse.rpi.edu/Homepages/wrf/research/gisapps/gisapps.pdf
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