Simplifying Spatial Data

Bijnens, You are right. This must have happened when the page was set up. I looked at the listings files I sent with the article and the names are there. I am sorry for the problem and thanks for posting the xml that fixes the problem. Kurt

Peter, Sorry, I clicked the finish button by accident before I finished. there is not enough space in this article to cover the background necessary to make a discussion of grds and tesselation understandable to the intended audience. I chose to accept the default settings for the index. You are correct in thinking that we might have improved the performance of the spatial index by fine-tuning it. However, I don't think it would have affected the final conclusion that the traditional indexes performed much better in this case. Regards, Kurt

Peter, We did not cover Geometry spatial types in this article at all, as I mentioned near the beginning of the article. Since this is an article on Simplified spatial data, I did not cover the complexities of tellelation