[mkgmap-dev] Suggestion - Make Douglas Peucker Algorithm more Configurable

Thu Jan 7 22:22:58 GMT 2010

> The "proper" solution would be to merge polygons if they overlap at the current resolution. Otherwise we might get "holes" in forests if they are mapped in small pieces. But I have no idea how to implement that...
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Which would be rather counterproductive to the PolygonSplitter code :-(
The polygons gets split to not hit any limits.

Seems, we need a complete new concept in handling polygons and 
multipolygons.

Maybe the splitting should be done *after* the dp step.