Web Services for an Open Generalisation Research Platform

While automated access and presentation of cartographic data over the internet are defined, services for automated generalisation are not yet standardised. This paper aims to show advan- tages of applying the service concept to generalisation for the development of a common re- search platform, where researchers would have access to a common generalisation framework. There follows a detailed explanation of a real implemented Generalisation Service. It is shown, how software developers can make their generalisation functionality available as a service and how these services can be accessed dynamically. For the implementation, the open source Java Unified Mapping Platform (JUMP) was extended to work as a framework for generalisation.