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Infomap Bioregions: Interactive mapping of biogeographical regions from species distributions
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Constraining the "quadtree" mapping algorithm with a shapefile? #28

Open olivierhardy opened 7 years ago

olivierhardy commented 7 years ago

I wonder whether the "adaptive resolution" algorithm could be improved to take into account a shapefile that imposes limits between "cells". For example, a shapefile of elevation belts with the contrain that any cell must be embedded in a single elevation belt. This could help create cells that are more homogeous in terms of environmental conditions, instead of squares or combinations of connected squares that could still include a lot of environmental heterogeneity.