Changes between Version 14 and Version 15 of SomeSplitting

Timestamp:

Mar 8, 2013, 7:42:07 AM (11 years ago)

Author:

mloskot

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SomeSplitting

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 = Discussion of Methods and API for Splitting an Oversize Polygon =
 
+Discussion outline:
+ * It is often desirable to "split" a POLYGON with a high number of vertices into some number of smaller POLYGONs. 
 
-* It is often desirable to "split" a POLYGON with a high number of vertices into some number of smaller POLYGONs. 
+ * From a user's perspective, some GIS processes result in very large POLYGON, for example 10,000 or 100,000 or more, vertices.  There is a case to be made that PostGIS users would benefit from standard calls to take a single POLYGON as an input,  and output some GEOMETRYCOLLECTION of POLYGON that are "equivalent", while respecting the problems inherent with the numeric precision model used.
 
-* From a user's perspective, some GIS processes result in very large POLYGON, for example 10,000 or 100,000 or more, vertices.  There is a case to be made that PostGIS users would benefit from standard calls to take a single POLYGON as an input,  and output some GEOMETRYCOLLECTION of POLYGON that are "equivalent", while respecting the problems inherent with the numeric precision model used.
+ * GEOS performs poorly as a POLYGON increases to a very large number of vertices, even in simple cases. 
 
-* GEOS performs poorly as a POLYGON increases to a very large number of vertices, even in simple cases. 
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-* For the sake of discussion. let us assume we are operating on a POLYGON with a single outer ring, that is formally valid.
+ * For the sake of discussion. let us assume we are operating on a POLYGON with a single outer ring, that is formally valid.
 
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