Point Clustering
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Point Clustering: Various Approaches
Please fill this in with any approaches that you have tried for Point Clustering along with code snippets. Please include discussion on why a particular method worked well or didn't work well and what circumstances it may be good for.
Possible Approaches:
- Coordinate interleaving
- K means Clustering
- Heirarchical Clustering
- distance calculation for each coordinate pair
References
- Wikipedia Article on Data Clustering
- PostGIS Mailing List thread on clustering points
- Here & here: Mapserver Mailing List threads on clustering points
- PyCluster: Python Cluster Functions
- Using Genetic Algorithms in Clustering Problems: paper from GeoComputation 2000 conference