[postgis-users] Map Simplification Program howto use it or is it exist any better alternative?

[Yves Moisan]

> 
> I tried do it my self with help of geotools but I stumbled into this
> project: http://www.cartoweb.org/downloads/vertexsimplification/documentation.html.
> Unfortunately I don't have much experience with relational databases
> and I don't heave any expedience with postgis.

I see you're using stuff from CartoWeb (now defunct and replaced by
MapFish).  MapFish server uses Shapely
(http://trac.gispython.org/lab/wiki/Shapely) for spatial operations and
I *think* Shapely has methods for simplification.

Best of luck,

Yves