It's a neat idea Christian. JTS could possible be used to iteratively generate a hierarchy, starting with the most detailed and getting progressively simpler... http://tsusiatsoftware.net/jts/javadoc/com/vividsolutions/jts/simplify/DouglasPeuckerSimplifier.html
Google says that Justin has already done some thinking about this idea... http://geoserver.org/display/GEOS/Vector+Super+Overlays Michael ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Geoserver-devel mailing list Geoserver-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-devel