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25-29 May 2015 lisbon congress center, portugal
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Ben Bruns
Product Manager Topography
Cadaster
Land Registry and Mapping Agency
The Netherlands

Biography
Ben Bruns (MSc, GEO information Technology) is Product manager Topography at the Cadaster, Land Registry and Mapping Agency for the Key Register Topography off the Netherlands. He has long background in Cartography.
As Regional Coordinator ERM-EGM for Eurogeographics he is responsible for the production of a group of EU. In his responsibility as Manager Customer Solution he is involved in high-end innovative projects such as automatic generalization.

Abstract
Small-scale map production with automatic generalization technology at Kadaster NL

Early 2012 the Kadaster NL decided to modernize the productions system for the small scales maps and developed a new system based on fully automatic generalization.
The existing process was very labour intensive and it was not possible to achieve the user demand for more actuality.
The users of the BRT data expected that the small scale maps will be presented within the same object oriented TOP10NL data model approach.
End of 2011 a “High5” innovation sprint showed that automatic generalization functionality has reached sufficient maturity to actually assemble it in a production process for small scale mapping.
At the start of the development process a number of key principles were set.
• The process should be achieved 100 % automatically.
• The new automatic "MAP " may differ from the old manual produced “MAP "
• The map product family must be realized much more cost-effectively.
• User evaluation during the development is necessary.
The development has led to a reduction in throughput of 5000% in respect to the old process. Furthermore, the production costs of the small maps are reduced to 25% of the cost of the manual process. The actuality of the maps has improved from 8-6 years to 2 years.
A key success factor for these result are the formation of the highly skilled development team and the iterative approach in relation to the user evaluation in the development process.