From be397b0391c82def98eea78f1c92c694eb47305f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Fischer Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 15:27:20 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Mention line simplification --- README.md | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index a5cb9346..16c45167 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -28,6 +28,9 @@ Example Geometric simplifications ------------------------- +At every zoom level, line and polygon features are subjected to Douglas-Peucker +simplification to the resolution of the tile. + For point features, it drops 1/2.5 of the dots for each zoom level above the base. I don't know why 2.5 is the appropriate number, but the densities of many different data sets fall off at about this same rate.