Better Polygon Simplification method?

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Yukha Dharmeswara
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Hello,

First of all, thank you for the good deed developing OSM Boundaries!

I've found this recipe (https://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/wiki/UsersWikiSimplifyWithTopologyExt) to fix "gap" between boundaries due to ST_SimplifyPreserveTopology limitation and wonder if OSM Boundaries will implement this. If it's working as they said, I think it would be a level up in OSM Boundaries' UX.

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Magnus
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We are sorry for not answering this earlier. The fact is that we very much liked this suggestion, but the using the method on that Wiki page results in quite a lot of issues.

We have however found another method and this far we are quite happy with the result. We are expecting/hoping for a release this week.

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Julius Evola

UPDATE:

this is probably not going to be considered, giving that the owner didn't even bother to reply with a simple "yes" or "no".

so, for everyone needing polygon simplification, I suggest to download the borders without simplification from here and simplify them here https://mapshaper.org/

this is an excellent simplifier that preserves topology, small polygons, corrects intersections and avoids gaps/slithers

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Julius Evola

please add this, it would be lifechanging


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