[mapserver-users] Re: Display a map in lower detail

[Kralidis,Tom [Burlington]]

FYI there is an example of shape thinning using Perl mapscript at http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/browser/trunk/mapserver/mapscript/perl/examples/thin.pl

..Tom



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From: mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org on behalf of Marte Raphael Y. Soliza
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Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] Re: Display a map in lower detail
 
Thanks a lot, it's what I exactly needed.

On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 1:05 AM, ROBERT HOLLINGSWORTH <reh2 at prodigy.net>wrote:

> You're basically describing "generalization" here.  I don't think mapscript
> has facilities for this, but you may be able to perform your own
> generalization on your shape objects.  Try a google on "Douglas-Peucker
> algorithm" and see what you find.  In some cases I think people simplify
> their polygons at various scales in advance and store them, then use the
> mapserver CLASS and MINSCALE/MAXSCALE in the mapfile to select which
> polygons to output.
>