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Cost-Distance Generates Octagonal Features #2013

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jamesmcclain opened this issue Feb 13, 2017 · 1 comment
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Cost-Distance Generates Octagonal Features #2013

jamesmcclain opened this issue Feb 13, 2017 · 1 comment

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jamesmcclain commented Feb 13, 2017 •
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In areas of "homogeneous" media, our current cost-distance implementation can tend to generate octagonal features. This is a well-known problem that is known to exist in the "classical" cost-distance algorithm.

The article [1] gives one approach for solving this.

  1. Tomlin, Dana. "Propagating radial waves of travel cost in a grid." International Journal of Geographical Information Science 24.9 (2010): 1391-1413.

Please see #1980 and #1999
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Peace out.

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