An Automated Method for Structural Pattern Recognition of Road Networks[J]. Journal of Image and Graphics, 2009, 14(7): 1251. DOI: 10.11834/jig.20090705.
Structural patterns of road networks play a vital role in the simplification
multiple representations of road networks. This paper proposes an automated method for identifying grid-like patterns from road networks. The proposed method firstly identifies grid-like patterns according to the shape similarity
and the direction similarity of road networks.Then it clusters grid-like patterns based on a region incremental algorithm. Experiments show that the proposed method is capable of automatically identifying grid-like patterns from road networks.