[OSM-dev] Simplifying ways

[Paul Hartmann]

2012/5/9 Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com>:
> 2012/5/9 BG <mrharmonie at gmx.de>:
>> is there a possibilty to simplify without douglas peucker?
>> i tried simplifying with postgis and i didn't like the result - some ways
>> were doubled
>
>
> In my experience you get better results if you have an algorithm for
> the optimization with angle based limits instead of distance limits ,
> but I don't know the name of these algorithms.

This depends a lot on the use case. There is a JOSM-Plugin called
"SimplifyArea" that combines 3 methods to simplify a way (distance,
angle and area). It doesn't use Douglas Peucker.

Paul