[Geowanking] GPS Track Software

[Kyle Mulka]

Why not use an algorithm that already is written? 

I guess I can understand the need to specify a number of points to leave
instead of a distance tolerance. But, other than that, it looks like
Douglas-Peucker will work well.

Here's the link:
http://www.softsurfer.com/Archive/algorithm_0205/algorithm_0205.htm

-Kyle Mulka
http://maps.kylemulka.com
 

Tom wrote:
That's cool...  The Ruby is GPL'd but I really should explicitly GPL the
Javascript too. We'd definitely welcome further input on implementing the
improvements you mentioned.