[postgis-devel] filter by m-value and effective area

[Sandro Santilli]

On Sat, Sep 23, 2017 at 12:39:16AM +0200, Nicklas Avén wrote:

> Today we have no function doing this "removing of vertecies". But it
> would be quite simple to write a function that just filters by the m-
> value, and the simplification will be very fast.
> 
> It will be a 2.5 function, but what do you think?
> 
> Is this worth another function in the crowd?

Of course !
Actually, I thought you already added that function
as part of the Visvalingam-Whyatt algorithm work.
Should it be a ST_SimplifyVWPrepared() or are you
thinking of a more general "filter by M" one ?

--strk;