Hi Alex
On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 10:37 PM, Alex Mandel <[email protected]>wrote: > On 01/20/2014 12:29 PM, Tim Sutton wrote: > > Ok I guess you can see where I am going to go with this email :-) Is > there > > any point to allowing users to simplify point layers? Alvaro, can your > > remove the point rendering tab in layer properties (and I guess check > > internally that you are not trying to simplify point layers)? Or is > there a > > use case for point simplification that I am not getting? > > > Yeah I am familiar with clustering (and would love to see it as a feature in QGIS), but the simplification implementation (as coming in 2.2) is there to strip vertices from geometries to speed up rendering. I don't think there is much benefit of having that applied to points (since they are composed of a single vertex. Regards Tim > > Regards > > > > Tim > > > > > > In the server world there is, could also be useful for navigating > gigantic data sets. Should definitely be a user toggled option. > > Clustering > > http://dev.openlayers.org/releases/OpenLayers-2.13.1/examples/strategy-cluster.html > > There are a few different ways to do it, and doing it server side can > save time when rendering WMS or prevent overload when WFS. > > Thanks, > Alex > > -- Tim Sutton - QGIS Project Steering Committee Member ============================================== Please do not email me off-list with technical support questions. Using the lists will gain more exposure for your issues and the knowledge surrounding your issue will be shared with all. Irc: timlinux on #qgis at freenode.net ==============================================
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