Small Polygon Compression For Integer Coordinates
Abhinav Jauhri, Martin Griss, Hakan Erdogmus

TL;DR
This paper presents novel polygon compression techniques that significantly reduce the size of geographical polygons, enabling efficient transmission within strict message length limits like emergency alerts.
Contribution
The paper introduces multiple new compression methods, including heuristics, higher base encoding, and a polyalgorithm, tailored for resource-constrained devices and specific polygon characteristics.
Findings
Achieved compression to 9.7%-23.6% of original size.
Reduced polygon lengths from 43-331 to 8-55 characters.
Combined techniques improve compression efficiency by around 80%.
Abstract
We describe several polygon compression techniques to enable efficient transmission of polygons representing geographical targets. The main application is to embed compressed polygons to emergency alert messages that have strict length restrictions, as in the case of Wireless Emergency Alert messages. We are able to compress polygons to between 9.7% and 23.6% of original length, depending on characteristics of the specific polygons, reducing original polygon lengths from 43-331 characters to 8-55 characters. The best techniques apply several heuristics to perform initial compression, and then other algorithmic techniques, including higher base encoding. Further, these methods are respectful of computation and storage constraints typical of cell phones. Two of the best techniques include a \enquote{bignum} quadratic combination of integer coordinates and a variable length encoding, which…
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Taxonomy
TopicsAlgorithms and Data Compression · Computational Geometry and Mesh Generation · Digital Image Processing Techniques
