diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index ce978f6..b63f239 100755 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -66,7 +66,11 @@ For a butter understanding how the different included simplification algorithms - `rdp`: Ramer–Douglas–Peucker - `vw`: Visvalingam-Whyatt -You can have a look to this blog post on [Line simplification algorithms](https://martinfleischmann.net/line-simplification-algorithms/) +You can have a look to this blog post on [Line simplification algorithms](https://martinfleischmann.net/line-simplification-algorithms/). +There you can find out that the `epsilon` value for `vw` is area-based and that the `epsilon` value for `rdp` is distance-based. + +So if your source projection is in meters, than it is very likely that your `epsilon` value should be magnitudes larger than the examples on this page where the source projection is in degrees. + ## Get in touch