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Map Visualization For Piwik Web Analytics

If you're using Piwik, the open source web analytics tool, then you probably already missed a map visualization of your visitors location, which is a standard feature of all major web analytics tools. As I really like the idea of ...

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Simplification of Country Outlines

Simplification is a common task in vector-based map visualization. In some situations you don't want to display a map in its full resolution for reasons like the overall filesize and the rendering time. One major class of simplification algorithms works by removing some vertices without moving the remaining ones. While there are already some good tutorials for implementation of line simplification algorithms online[1. for instance the Douglas Peuker Line Generalization or Lang Simplification and McMaster's Slide Averaging Algorithm], none of them takes into account the special requirements of map data simplifications. This gap will be closed by this post.

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Helper Class For Delayed Code Execution In AS3

This is a small class that I use very often. Its purpose is to simplify the execution of methods after a specific delay. Normally you would have to create a new Timer instance, attach an event listener for the TimerEvent.TIMER event and find a way to store the arguments that ...

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