[OSM-dev] Simplified street-network

[Andy Allan]

On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 9:17 AM,  <marcus.wolschon at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> did anyone else ever work on simplifying the polylines for
> low zoom -rendering or similar purposes?
> Any algorithms, websites or books that may help me?

There's been a small amount of work on this in mapnik-rendering
circles, but mainly using postgis' simplify(linestring, integer)
function. I don't have info from anyone who's looked into it further
from an algorithm point of view.

Cheers,
Andy