This was an extra level of attribute indirection (features point
to metadata records which point to key and value strings) which was
intended to reduce the size of temporary storage for features with
large numbers of attributes that were also spread across large numbers
of tiles at maxzoom.
For other kinds of features, the extra indirection slowed things down
instead, and, especially when maxzoom guessing was being used, many more
features were having their metadata externalized than could actually
benefit from it.
* Add an option to limit geometry vertex count
* Update docs and changelog
* Track desired feature count and geometry size in strategies
* Remove dead code for a long-forgotten inaccessible option
* Fix the option name in changelog
* Refine coalesce-smallest to only coalesce onto other small features
* Clean polygons before coalescing-as-needed
* Don't accumulate tiny polygon holes as negative dust
* Add the option not to limit the feature count at maxzoom
* Add options to limit feature count more abruptly in each tile
* Revert "Add the option not to limit the feature count at maxzoom"
This reverts commit ace173ab7a.
* Revert "Fix the option name in changelog"
This reverts commit 38dbce8405.
* Revert "Add an option to limit geometry vertex count"
This reverts commit d379fdf06b.
* Remove test for reverted option
* Remove more leftovers from geometry size limiting
* Update changelog
* Add an option to retain extra coordinate precision at maxzoom
* Make sure not to shift away the extra detail from coordinates
* Add an option to convert double-precision attributes to single
* Sort attribute values in tiles to make them compress a little better
* Slightly improve polygon simplification
By choosing a point that would be retained after simplification
to be the start/end point that always gets retained
* I regret making all of these tests involve polygons
* Add an option to specify the size of tiny polygons
* Fix accidental requiring of argument for --single-precision
* Guard against duplicate points when generating "sizes" for them
* Restore the intended behavior that tiny polygons don't get simplified
* Make the extra detail settable rather than always maximizing it
* Revert "Improve maxzoom guessing for tightly-clustered point data sources (#4)"
This reverts commit fec5e8354c.
* Add an option to prevent choosing a base zoom higher than the maxzoom
* Keep the drop rate high enough when the basezoom gets constrained
* Revert "Revert "Improve maxzoom guessing for tightly-clustered point data sources (#4)""
This reverts commit db6bc27d9e.
* Add --order-by and --order-descending options
* Accept multiple --order-by and --order-descending-by sort keys
* Handle points too when dropping or coalescing the "smallest" features.
* Add statistics of tile size reduction strategies to tileset metadata
* Update changelog and version
* Update documentation
This moves filtering from the serialization stage to the
tiling stage so that the zoom level can be known to the filter.
The side effect is to carry null attributes much further through
the pipeline than previously.
Erica Fischer