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
Interesting, I was just thinking along these lines, but doing the
pyramid outside of GeoServer instead of inside, see
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=49C94E81.40205%40opengeo.org&forum_name=geowebcache-devel
GeoServer would just need a generalization method, and then GWC
Christian Müller ha scritto:
> Do we have something like pyramids for for vector data ?
>
> What I mean is having a FeatureSource (say, the boundary of Europe having
> 100 000 vertices) and drawing the boundary on a 640x480 image.
> I really do not need 100 000 points and therefore I make some
