[Qgis-developer] On the fly simplication of point layers

[Alex Mandel]

On 01/20/2014 12:29 PM, Tim Sutton wrote:
> Ok I guess you can see where I am going to go with this email :-) Is there
> any point to allowing users to simplify point layers? Alvaro, can your
> remove the point rendering tab in layer properties (and I guess check
> internally that you are not trying to simplify point layers)? Or is there a
> use case for point simplification that I am not getting?
> 
> Regards
> 
> Tim
> 
> 

In the server world there is, could also be useful for navigating
gigantic data sets. Should definitely be a user toggled option.

Clustering
http://dev.openlayers.org/releases/OpenLayers-2.13.1/examples/strategy-cluster.html

There are a few different ways to do it, and doing it server side can
save time when rendering WMS or prevent overload when WFS.

Thanks,
Alex