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<small><font face="Verdana">So Simplify is the right method for
reducing the number of points? <br>
<br>
Testing SELECT npoints(Simplify(the_geom, 80)), npoints(the_geom)<br>
produces: 70203, 84990. <br>
<br>
What is the range of the tolerance parameter then and why does it
generate scientific notations eg.</font></small><br>
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<pre wrap="">SRID=-1;MULTIPOLYGON(((-3.40056774339641e-063
-4.38828018269539e+033,1.29793581702902e-099
-4.71199750007451e+156,2.14675261499012e-179
6.45280524121602e-108,3.18999891494113e+087
-2.9437206290273e+237,-2.11301423329521e+231
-2.41070996669296e-010,-4.80307 (..)
Thanx,
Christo
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Brent Wood wrote:
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cite="mid20050724201401.30246.qmail@web33214.mail.mud.yahoo.com"
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<pre wrap="">I think you are confusing the meanings of issimple & simplify. Issimple checks
to see if it is a "simple" geometry. Which has to do with the
topology/structure of the feature rather than the number of points. (see the
docs for a more complete description)
The simplify function uses a Peuker-Douglas algorithm to reduce the number of
vertices in a line. As in point reduction or thinning.
FYI, I have found that views on a geometry table with simplified geometries
work well with scale dependent layering for viewng data. The function is very
quick, and means the viewing software can have several orders of magnitude less
vertices to render...
Brent Wood</pre>
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<pre wrap="">SELECT Simplify(the_geom, 80), the_geom
Produces:
SRID=-1;MULTIPOLYGON(((-3.40056774339641e-063
-4.38828018269539e+033,1.29793581702902e-099
-4.71199750007451e+156,2.14675261499012e-179
6.45280524121602e-108,3.18999891494113e+087
-2.9437206290273e+237,-2.11301423329521e+231
-2.41070996669296e-010,-4.80307 (..)
SRID=-1;MULTIPOLYGON(((18.441127 -33.919793,18.442126
-33.91885,18.442537 -33.918462,18.442729 -33.918603,18.442464
-33.918852,18.441329 -33.919914,18.442208 -33.92056,18.44628
-33.920351,18.44426 -33.91886,18.443569 -33.91835,18.444617
-33.917363,18.4404 (..)
With 85000 points I presumed that the IsSimple method would return
False, but I was wrong. IsSimple returns True.
It does say in the documentation to test IsSimple otherwise the
Simplify method might loose the geometries simplicity. I take it, this
is what they meant.
So my question, what do I do to simplify the geometry eg. reduce the
number of points for displaying my maps on different scales?
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Kind Regards,
Christo Du Preez
Senior Software Engineer
Mecola IT
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