[postgis-tickets] [PostGIS] #2227: Visvalingam line generalization function

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#2227: Visvalingam line generalization function
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 Reporter:  strk         |       Owner:  pramsey      
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new          
 Priority:  medium       |   Milestone:  PostGIS 2.1.0
Component:  postgis      |     Version:  trunk        
 Keywords:               |  
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 See
 http://www2.dcs.hull.ac.uk/CISRG/publications/DPs/DP10/DP10.html

 The algorithm is known allowing "tagging" vertices with their importance
 and thus allowing run-time simplification by only looking at the tags. For
 this reason I envision a tag-only function and a trim-by-tag one. Both
 would be useful.

 See also http://bost.ocks.org/mike/simplify/

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