Simplify geometries with the Visvalingam-Wyatt algorithm
Project description
Visvalingam-Wyatt
A Python implementation of the Visvalingam-Wyatt line simplification algorithm.
This implementation is due to Eliot Hallmark. This release simply packages it as a Python module.
Use
>>> import visvalingamwyatt as vw
>>> points = [(1, 2), (2, 3), (3, 4), ...]
>>> vw.simplify(points)
[(1, 2), (3, 4), ...]
Points may be any Sequence
-like object that (list
, tuple
, a custom class that exposes an __iter__
method).
Test different methods and thresholds:
simplifier = vw.Simplifier(points)
# Simplify by percentage of points to keep
simplifier.simplify(ratio=0.5)
# Simplify by giving number of points to keep
simplifier.simplify(number=1000)
# Simplify by giving an area threshold (in the units of the data)
simplifier.simplify(threshold=0.01)
Shorthands for working with geodata:
import visvalingamwyatt as vw
feature = {
"properties": {"foo": "bar"},
"geometry": {
"type": "Polygon",
"coordinates": [...]
}
}
# returns a copy of the geometry, simplified (keeping 90% of points)
vw.simplify_geometry(feature['geometry'], ratio=0.90)
# returns a copy of the feature, simplified (using an area threshold)
vw.simplify_feature(feature, threshold=0.90)
The command line tool vwsimplify
is available to simplify GeoJSON files:
# Simplify using a ratio of points
vwsimplify --ratio 0.90 in.geojson -o simple.geojson
# Simplify using the number of points to keep
vwsimplify --number 1000 in.geojson -o simple.geojson
# Simplify using a minimum area
vwsimplify --threshold 0.001 in.geojson -o simple.geojson
Install Fiona for the additional ability to simplify any geodata layer.
License
MIT
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