[Qgis-developer] On the fly simplication of point layers

[Martin Dobias]

Hi Tim

On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 3:41 AM, Tim Sutton <lists at linfiniti.com> wrote:
> Hi Alex
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 10:37 PM, Alex Mandel <tech_dev at wildintellect.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> On 01/20/2014 12:29 PM, Tim Sutton wrote:
>> > Ok I guess you can see where I am going to go with this email :-) Is
>> > there
>> > any point to allowing users to simplify point layers? Alvaro, can your
>> > remove the point rendering tab in layer properties (and I guess check
>> > internally that you are not trying to simplify point layers)? Or is
>> > there a
>> > use case for point simplification that I am not getting?
>> >
>
>
> Yeah I am familiar with clustering (and would love to see it as a feature in
> QGIS),

Actually the point displacement renderer already does clustering,
though it lacks more options to customize how the clustered symbol
would look like.

Cheers
Martin