G'day all,

Is there any way to simplify adjacent boundaries so that they remain congruent?

By way of explanation, I have finally obtained / cleaned up a data layer for 
administrative boundaries in mainland South-East Asia, and I am very happy with 
the result - all the topology etc is correct. I have tried to maintain the high 
level of resolution etc so that when I zoom in (using web / mapserver / qgis / 
whatever) it looks great and matches up with rivers etc. 

However, for analytical purposes, loading it into R takes about 5 minutes of 
dual processor stress. And realistically, for these purposes I don't need this 
level of detail. (vector output images are also unwieldy)

So off I go to using st_simplify / st_simplifypreserve topology, which does 
exactly what it claims to do... but now I have terrible (looking)  gaps between 
adjacent boundaries.

So, is there any way to simplify adjacent boundaries so that they remain 
congruent? 
(I have a suspicion I may finally have to learn what the terms simple features 
and topological GIS really mean...)

cheers

Ben


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