From: Sandro Santilli <strk@keybit.net>
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 11:04:55 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: added simplify() documentation
X-Git-Tag: pgis_0_8_1~10
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a1fec8f1aaaf3f352682da8bc0b3ac68c14d75be;p=postgis

added simplify() documentation


git-svn-id: http://svn.osgeo.org/postgis/trunk@411 b70326c6-7e19-0410-871a-916f4a2858ee
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diff --git a/doc/postgis.xml b/doc/postgis.xml
index ad16f5a75..2ea8adde3 100644
--- a/doc/postgis.xml
+++ b/doc/postgis.xml
@@ -2702,6 +2702,12 @@ FROM geometry_table;</literallayout>
 					<listitem> 
 						<para>Returns the requested maxima of a bounding box.</para> 
 					</listitem> 
+				</varlistentry><varlistentry> 
+					<term>simplify(geometry, tolerance)</term> 
+					<listitem> 
+						<para>Returns a "simplified" version of the given geometry using the Douglas-Peuker algorithm. Will actually do something only with (multi)lines and (multi)polygons but you can safely call it
+with any kind of geometry. Since simplification occurs on a object-by-object basis you can also feed a GeometryCollection to this function. Note that returned geometry might loose its simplicity (see isSimple)</para>
+					</listitem> 
 				</varlistentry> 
 			</variablelist>
 		</sect1>