Curve simplification is an important area of research. One of its main uses is in Geographical Information Systems.
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are becoming extremely useful as an analysis tool in science,
engineering, environmental and medical research. The
use of GIS is made more prominent and useful due to the massive
amounts of data made available from satellites and other means.
One of main uses of this data is for cartographic purposes, where
the information has to be visualized, and presented as a
simple, and easily readable map. Since the information is
too dense, the maps are usually simplified. For this simplification
process, curve simplification is used for simplifying the
map piecewise linearly. In this software, we implement
a fast algorithm for curve simplification.
You can download the source code here.