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For rapid production of spatial data and topographic maps, map production systems should be transformed into a dynamic structure. Topographic map production system in Turkey, cartographic operations for each map are repeated in the same way, regardless of the amount of data updated in the geographic database. The implementation of similar actions on maps with very few changes is not time and cost effective. In this study, changes were determined by comparing the current and previous data from TOPODB and the resulting changes were integrated into the population class of 1:25.000 scale topographic maps in a third less time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The automatic placement of map labels in graphically dense areas is one of the challenging problems in modern cartography. Creation of the annotation layer still requires human interaction and automation of this process has significant potential for reducing the time required for map production. In this paper, we present a software technique for the key numbering process that we applied to approximately 20% of the 1:25,000 topographic maps of Turkey. The results were compared with those obtained from the traditional manual method. The consistency of the results is above 90%, achieving time savings of 70%, which indicates an substantial improvement in topographic map production. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]