David,
The JTS library includes the standard Douglas-Peucker algorithm:
http://tsusiatsoftware.net/jts/javadoc/com/vividsolutions/jts/simplify/DouglasPeuckerSimplifier.html
as well as a topology preserving algorithm:
http://tsusiatsoftware.net/jts/javadoc/com/vividsolutions/jts/simplify/TopologyP
Dear Geotools community friends,
I wonder whether there is such a Java implementation available.
Alan Saalfeld et al's algorithm and source codes.
http://books.google.ie/books/about/A_Modified_Douglas_Peucker_Simplificatio.html?id=gbQjywAACAAJ&redir_esc=y
In Zhiyuan Zhao and Alan Saafeld's pap