1[/============================================================================ 2 Boost.Geometry (aka GGL, Generic Geometry Library) 3 4 Copyright (c) 2009-2012 Barend Gehrels, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. 5 Copyright (c) 2009-2012 Mateusz Loskot, London, UK. 6 Copyright (c) 2009-2012 Bruno Lalande, Paris, France. 7 8 Use, modification and distribution is subject to the Boost Software License, 9 Version 1.0. (See accompanying file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at 10 http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt) 11=============================================================================/] 12 13[def __this_function__ simplify] 14 15[heading_conformance_no_ogc __this_function__] 16[note PostGIS contains an algorithm with the same name and the 17 same functionality. 18 See the [@http://www.postgis.org/docs/ST_Simplify.html PostGIS documentation]. 19] 20[note SQL Server contains an algorithm Reduce() with the same functionality. 21 See the [@http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb933814.aspx MSDN documentation]. 22] 23 24[heading Behavior] 25Simplification is done using [@http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramer%E2%80%93Douglas%E2%80%93Peucker_algorithm Douglas-Peucker] (if the default strategy is used). 26[note Geometries might become invalid by using simplify. The simplification 27process might create self-intersections. 28] 29 30[heading Examples] 31[simplify] 32[simplify_output] 33 34[heading Image(s)] 35[$svg_simplify_country.png] 36
