[postgis-users] Postgis Simplify

[strk at refractions.net]

On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 08:46:25PM +0200, Christo Du Preez wrote:
> Sorry for being stupid but if my data is in [lat/lon wgs84], what should 
> I do to Simplify it as much as possible and also for the result to be in 
> [lat/lon wgs84]?

You probably don't want to simplify "as much as possible", as that
would make all your geoms into points.

Being in lat/lon 0.1 might be a good starting point.
Increase or decrease after looking at output, which might
be ugly if you're simplifying a whole topology.


--strk;

> 
> strk at refractions.net wrote:
> 
> >On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 12:21:08AM -0700, Brent Wood wrote:
> >...
> > 
> >
> >>I'm not sure why your data is output in exponential format, I haven't 
> >>seen that
> >>before, maybe some format setting?
> >>   
> >>
> >
> >LWGEOM output uses %.15g as output format, which allows for
> >exponential form, it's not related to simplify().
> >
> >--strk;
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