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Steve,
 
Have you tried MapInfos built-in tool for this ? Here you specify a 3-Node Co-linear Deviation value and a Node Separation tolerance. And I'm pretty sure that MapInfo used the Douglas-Peucker algorithm.
 
This tool can be found in the Object menu in the later versions of MapInfo, at least since version 6..5

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-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Morrier, Steve
Sent: Monday, November 21, 2005 9:14 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [MI-L] Intelligent Node Thinning

Hi All,
 
Does anyone know of a tool that will do intelligent node thinning? We have extracted a large number of forest blocks from 75cm aerial photography using a spectral classification. The classification produces a very "stepped" looking polygon with far too many nodes/points. I would like to run a combination of smooth and generalize on the polygons. The problem is the smooth seems to add more nodes and the generalize ends up really altering the shape of the polygon. It would be nice to be able to specify an angle and a distance that you could choose to keep or drop nodes based on the angle to the next node and the distance. Does anything like this exist? Thanks very much.
 
Steve
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