[gdal-dev] Smoothing polygons

[Stephen Woodbridge]

Have you considered using a convex hull to merge the results.

-Steve

Clay, Bruce wrote:
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> With the help of some folks on this forum I have successfully managed to 
> create polygons that represent the coverage area of a set of geo-data 
> points.  The operation does quite smoothly and fairly fast.  I am don’t 
> to one final operation that I have searched both GDAL/OGR and GEOS API 
> and have not found.
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> Before I start coding I wanted to ask if anyone knows of an existing 
> operation that I missed that will smooth the edges and simplify the 
> resultant polygons.  The attached files show the buffered points as 
> overlapping polygons and the final merged polygon.  The merged set is a 
> result of applying a buffer to a GeometryCollection.  If the images make 
> it though the mail filters you can see that the edges of the polygons 
> have a scalloped effect.  If I can smooth the edged it should reduce the 
> stored geometry size.
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> Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
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> Bruce
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