Reduce number of points in line

Question

I\'m searching for algorithms to reduce the LOD of polylines, lines (looped or not) of nodes. In simple words, I want to take hi-resolution coastline data and be able to re

Answer 1

Adding to the slew of answers. I found a javascript implementation at this github repo: https://github.com/mourner/simplify-js

There's also a list of different implementations of the Ramer-Douglas-Peucker algorithm in different languages.