[R-sig-Geo] downsampling a lines shapefile?

[Hadley Wickham]

>> I have a shapefile with a number of line features.  I can load it and plot
>> it.  Is there an easy way to downsample or smooth the shapefile to a coarser
>> resolution?
>
> ?gSimplify in rgeos?

Is there a reason that gSimplify doesn't default to a topology
preserving simplification?

Hadley

-- 
Assistant Professor / Dobelman Family Junior Chair
Department of Statistics / Rice University
http://had.co.nz/