The invention discloses an electronic chart position
point data simplification method, which comprises the following steps of: 1, dividing chart position points into three types, namely point chart layer discrete position points, line chart layer continuous position points and surface chart layer continuous position points, and respectively
processing the three types of chart layer position pointdata; 2, for the discrete position
point data of the
point graph layer, the discrete position points are continued according to a distance or
byte rule, a reference position point of each position point is determined, and then each position point is represented by a relative coordinate relative to the reference position point; and 3, for the line and
surface layer data,
processing the initial position points of all the line segments according to the step (2), taking the midpoint of two adjacent position points as a reference position point for each group of continuous position points, and representing the line and
surface layer position points by using the relative coordinates relative to the reference position point. And 4, storing the relative coordinate data, and generating an electronic chart file. The electronic chart precision is maintained, the chart file is greatly simplified, the storage space is reduced, and the
processing efficiency is improved.