Comments on: Simplification of Country Outlines http://vis4.net/blog/posts/simplification-of-country-outlines/?piwik_campaign=rss&piwik_kwd=1705 The geeky side of information visualization Tue, 24 Jan 2012 23:04:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Rendering SVG Country Maps in Python — vis4.net http://vis4.net/blog/posts/simplification-of-country-outlines/?piwik_campaign=rss&piwik_kwd=1705/comment-page-1/#comment-1722 Rendering SVG Country Maps in Python — vis4.net Tue, 01 Nov 2011 15:00:18 +0000 http://vis4.net/blog/?p=1705#comment-1722 [...] and Visvalingam, but I used a very fast and simple one. Actually, it's the same algorithm that I used a few years ago, when I rendered my first world maps in [...] [...] and Visvalingam, but I used a very fast and simple one. Actually, it's the same algorithm that I used a few years ago, when I rendered my first world maps in [...]

]]> By: Gregor http://vis4.net/blog/posts/simplification-of-country-outlines/?piwik_campaign=rss&piwik_kwd=1705/comment-page-1/#comment-797 Gregor Thu, 02 Dec 2010 23:04:39 +0000 http://vis4.net/blog/?p=1705#comment-797 @andrei: sorry for the delay. the algorithm is quite fast compared to other simplification methods, but it's still to slow to use it in realtime. Simplification of all countries takes about 3-5 secs I think.. @andrei: sorry for the delay. the algorithm is quite fast compared to other simplification methods, but it's still to slow to use it in realtime. Simplification of all countries takes about 3-5 secs I think..

]]> By: Madison Mapper http://vis4.net/blog/posts/simplification-of-country-outlines/?piwik_campaign=rss&piwik_kwd=1705/comment-page-1/#comment-781 Madison Mapper Tue, 23 Nov 2010 21:41:05 +0000 http://vis4.net/blog/?p=1705#comment-781 Matt Bloch's mapshaper.org is a nifty tool for doing this quickly to shapefiles: mapshaper.org Matt Bloch's mapshaper.org is a nifty tool for doing this quickly to shapefiles:

mapshaper.org

]]> By: Andrei http://vis4.net/blog/posts/simplification-of-country-outlines/?piwik_campaign=rss&piwik_kwd=1705/comment-page-1/#comment-775 Andrei Sun, 21 Nov 2010 04:41:06 +0000 http://vis4.net/blog/?p=1705#comment-775 This is awesome. Have you done any benchmarking on this? I am curious to see how long it will take to 'simplify' 5000 points and whether simplification can be performed on every zoom level. This is awesome. Have you done any benchmarking on this? I am curious to see how long it will take to 'simplify' 5000 points and whether simplification can be performed on every zoom level.

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