Scott Ellington’s Blog

I have just added an implementation of the Douglas-Peucker algorithm, which provides the ability to simplify complicated lines and polygons. This can be enabled from within a Style element:

<Style>
    <Simplify>true</Simplify>
    <SimplifyTolerance>0.000000001</SimplifyTolerance>
    ...

The advantage of this is you can set styles that are enabled at higher scales (more zoomed out) that will [...]

I have been playing around a bit with xml schema.
XML Schemas express shared vocabularies and allow machines to carry out rules made by people. They provide a means for defining the structure, content and semantics of XML documents.
One cool thing is that both MonoDevelop and Visual Studio (and I am sure others) provide tag completion [...]