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42 <div class="title">simplify: remove points from a geometry, keeping shape (simplification or generalization)</div> </div>
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49 <tr class="memdesc:"><td class="mdescLeft"> </td><td class="mdescRight">Checks strategy for simplify. <a href="structboost_1_1geometry_1_1concepts_1_1_simplify_strategy.html#details">More...</a><br/></td></tr>
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75 <td class="paramname"><em>geometry</em>, </td>
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87 <td class="paramname"><em>max_distance</em>, </td>
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93 <td class="paramname"><em>strategy</em> </td>
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103 <p>Simplify a geometry using a specified strategy. </p>
104 <dl class="tparams"><dt>Template Parameters</dt><dd>
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106 <tr><td class="paramname">Geometry</td><td>Any type fulfilling a Geometry Concept </td></tr>
107 <tr><td class="paramname">Distance</td><td>A numerical distance measure </td></tr>
108 <tr><td class="paramname">Strategy</td><td>A type fulfilling a SimplifyStrategy concept </td></tr>
112 <dl class="params"><dt>Parameters</dt><dd>
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114 <tr><td class="paramname">strategy</td><td>A strategy to calculate simplification </td></tr>
115 <tr><td class="paramname">geometry</td><td>input geometry, to be simplified </td></tr>
116 <tr><td class="paramname">out</td><td>output geometry, simplified version of the input geometry </td></tr>
117 <tr><td class="paramname">max_distance</td><td>distance (in units of input coordinates) of a vertex to other segments to be removed </td></tr>
118 <tr><td class="paramname">strategy</td><td>simplify strategy to be used for simplification, might include point-distance strategy</td></tr>
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125 The image below presents the simplified country</div></div>
126 <dl><dt><b>Examples: </b></dt><dd><a class="el" href="02_linestring_example_8cpp-example.html#a15">02_linestring_example.cpp</a>.</dd>
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152 <td class="paramname"><em>max_distance</em> </td>
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162 <p>Simplify a geometry. </p>
163 <dl class="tparams"><dt>Template Parameters</dt><dd>
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165 <tr><td class="paramname">Geometry</td><td>Any type fulfilling a Geometry Concept </td></tr>
166 <tr><td class="paramname">Distance</td><td>numerical type (int, double, ttmath, ...) </td></tr>
170 <dl class="section note"><dt>Note</dt><dd>This version of simplify simplifies a geometry using the default strategy (Douglas Peucker), </dd></dl>
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173 <tr><td class="paramname">geometry</td><td>input geometry, to be simplified </td></tr>
174 <tr><td class="paramname">out</td><td>output geometry, simplified version of the input geometry </td></tr>
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