[postgis-users] polygon with equally spaced points from an existing polygon

Paolo Corti pcorti at gmail.com
Tue Mar 12 01:08:15 PDT 2013


On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 5:22 AM, Luis Tavares <lmikegeo at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> How do I create a polygon with equally spaced points from an existing
> polygon?
>
> I know that more the curvature or concavity changes sign more points are
> needed. So one solution would be to calculate the minimum of all distances
> between two consecutive points in the original polygon and use that distance
> to build my polygon with equally spaced points. Is this correct? If so, How
> do I proceed from here? Any ready made solution?
>

What about ST_Simplify?
regards
p

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