“…The generalization of building blocks (we use the term “buildings” in the remainder of the article for the sake of simplicity) has attracted much research attention over recent decades (e.g., Ai, Zhang, Zhou, & Yang, 2015; Basaraner & Selcuk, 2008; Deng, Tang, Liu, & Wu, 2018; Pilehforooshha & Karimi, 2019). In building generalization, applying pre‐processing steps and geometric transformation can lead to spatial conflicts of objects, so that they overlap or the distance between them (between buildings or between buildings and other map objects such as roads) becomes shorter than the minimum identifiable separation distance (Ai et al., 2015; Liu, Guo, Sun, & Ma, 2014; Mackaness, 1994; Sun, Guo, Liu, Lv, & Yang, 2016; Wei, He, Wang, Wang, & Guo, 2018).…”