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

[Tim Sutton]

Hi


On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 11:47 PM, A Huarte <ahuarte47 at yahoo.es> wrote:

> done:
> https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/1093
>
> This patch hides the simplification rendering tab for point layers, now
> it is not supported (internally I am not trying to simplify point layers)
> . Thanks Tim!
>
> About if there is a use case for point simplification, I know one, (gvSIG
>  + dielmo open lidar) use it for load extreme big point layers as LiDAR LAS
> files are.
>
> It know the code in java and I think easy migrate to QGIS. Basically, It
> ignore points by distance in a similar style as the current simplifier
> classes.
>

Sorry I see my original email was not very clear - I meant if there was a
use case for point simplification as *currently implemented in master* - I
fully agree that filtering proximal points would be a good performance
booster, as would providing a point clustering capability.


>
> If you think good for QGIS I think but I can imlement it
>

That would be great! Thanks for your pull request.

Regards

Tim


> .
> Alvaro
>
>   ------------------------------
>  *De:* Tim Sutton <lists at linfiniti.com>
> *Para:* qgis-developer <qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org>
> *Enviado:* Lunes 20 de enero de 2014 21:29
> *Asunto:* [Qgis-developer] On the fly simplication of point layers
>
> 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
>
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