How to intelligently degrade or smooth GIS data (simplifying polygons)?
问题 I have detailed US county maps, from the TIGER LINE data sets. How might I sample, smooth, or degrade the data so that I get straighter, more boxy, less "noisy" shapes to represent the geographical features -- in this case just county boundaries and state lines, but maybe also in the general case? The sampling could happen at rendering time if that can be done efficiently, or a parallel data set could be generated and stored. I am using PostGIS, and the lines are multi-polylines generated by