[mkgmap-dev] Commit: r1294: Added duplicate() method.

Mon Oct 19 17:37:33 BST 2009


Torsten Leistikow schrieb:
> svn commit schrieb:
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>> Added duplicate() method.
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>> Makes a new way that has the same values (id, name, tags, points) but
>> differs in that the points list is a shallow copy of the original so that
>> subsequent changes to the structure of the original points list don't
>> cause the points list in the duplicate to change (of course, the points
>> themselves could be changed).
>>     
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> Do you have an example, how this feature can be used?
>
> What use do you see for it? (This was propably answered in another
> thread, but I have missed the reasoning.)
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An possible use will be in the douglas peucker filter, previously I had 
to copy the list of points by hand, before I modify it.