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Mapping Hacksby Schuyler Erle, Rich Gibson and Jo WalshArchive for May, 2008Douglas-Peucker Line Simplification in PythonMonday, May 5th, 2008Last October, Christopher Schmidt mentioned that he was working on a REST-ful Web Processing Server in Python. I don’t recall how push came to shove, but I wound up volunteering to provide vector generalization code for the project. After failing to find any usable Python implementations of the Douglas-Peucker line simplification algorithm on the Internets, […] Posted in services, software | No Comments » Updated World Borders DatasetFriday, May 2nd, 2008Another one from the “old data made new” file: Bjørn Sandvik of thematicmapping.org has been good enough to make some improvements to our freely available world borders shapefile. (He’s also doing some kick-ass choropleth maps in OpenLayers.) The new and improved world borders shapefile is hosted on his website; we have mirrored it in our […] Posted in geodata, data | No Comments »
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