Zhiyong Zhou Cheng Fu Yu Feng Guillaume Touya Monika Sester Robert Weibel a Department of Geography, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerlandb Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, USAc College of Information and Electrical Engineering, China Agricultural University, Beijing, Chinad i3mainz - Institute for Spatial Information and Surveying Technology, University of Applied Sciences Mainz, Mainz, Germanye Chair of Cartography and Visual Analytics, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germanyf LASTIG, IGN, ENSG, University Gustave Eiffel, Champs-sur-Marne, Franceg Institute of Cartography and Geoinformatics, Leibniz University Hannover, Hannover, Germanyh UZH Healthy Longevity Center, University of Zurich, Zurich, SwitzerlandZhiyong Zhou is an SNSF postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Before this position, he was a postdoc at the Department of Geography, University of Zurich, from which he obtained a Ph.D. in Geography/Earth System Science in 2022. His research interests include GeoAI, location-based services (LBS), computational cartography, and urban analytics. He contributed to the writing of the original draft, conceptualization, methodology, investigation, and validation.Cheng Fu is a professor at China Agricultural University. His research interests include place modeling, human mobility, and map generalization. He contributed to review, editing, conceptualization, methodology, investigation, supervision, and funding acquisition.Yu Feng is a professor at Hochschule Mainz – University of Applied Sciences. Prior to his current position, he worked as a group leader and postdoctoral researcher at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). Earlier in his career, he was a Research Associate at Leibniz University Hannover, where he also completed his PhD. His research interests include GeoAI, volunteered geographic information (VGI), and cartographic generalization. He contributed to review, editing, conceptualization, methodology, and investigation.Guillaume Touya is a senior researcher, at IGN France (the French mapping agency) and Univ Gustave Eiffel, holding a PhD and habilitation in GI science from Paris-Est University. His research interests focus on automated cartography, map generalisation and volunteered geographic information, with a particular interest in research approaches to multi-scale cartography that mix automated cartography, spatial cognition and human–computer interaction issues. He is the principal investigator of the recent LostInZoom project, funded by the Europe Research Council (ERC) and the chair of the ICA (International Cartographic Association) commission on map generalisation and multiple representation. He contributed to review, editing, conceptualization, methodology, and investigation.Monika Sester is a surveying engineer by training (University Karlsruhe) and earned her PhD on a topic of Machine Learning at the University of Stuttgart in 1995, and her habilitation in 2000 on the automatic generation of multiple representations of geodata. Since 2000 she has been professor and head of the Institute of Cartography and Geoinformatics (ikg) at Leibniz University Hannover. She and her group work on the automation of spatial data processing with methods from computational geometry, optimization and AI. She contributed to review, editing, conceptualization, methodology, and investigation.Robert Weibel is a Professor Emeritus of Geographic Information Science at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. He is interested in computational cartography; mobility analytics with applications in health, transportation and animal ecology; and spatial analysis and modeling for the study of language evolution. From 1992 he built up the ICA Commission on Map Generalization and served as Commission Chair until 2003. He contributed to reviewing, editing, conceptualization, methodology, investigation, supervision, funding acquisition, and project administration.