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Subject: Re: [emergency] Circle and Polygon
On Jun 11, 2005, at 6/11/05 4:50 AM, Rex Brooks wrote: > I happen to think that either a rule of thumb, or a specified limit > to the number of lat/long points might serve to solve the problem, > such that practitioners can automatically apply an optimization > algorithm before sending a message. Um. Well, reduction of geospatial polygons, either in a smoothing mode or (more likely for alerts) in an "enveloping" mode, is certainly a fact of life. Still, I'm having difficulty with the idea that we would adopt a format that roughly doubles the byte-size of each polygon, and then ask senders to reduce the resolution of their data to compensate. Seems like that might be a triumph of form over function, doesn't it? Anyway, I'm not sure anyone is actually having a problem with the existing polygon format, so are we in danger of trying to fix something that isn't really broken? - Art
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