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You can have a look to this blog post on [Line simplification algorithms](https://martinfleischmann.net/line-simplification-algorithms/).
There you can find out that the `epsilon` value for `vw` is area-based and that the `epsilon` value for `rdp` is distance-based.

So if your source projection is in meters, than it is very likely that your `epsilon` value should be magnitudes larger than the examples on this page where the source projection is in degrees.
Also, if your source projection is in meters, than it is very likely that your `epsilon` value should be magnitudes larger than the examples on this page where the source projection is in degrees.

There is a [section](https://py.geocompx.org/04-geometry-operations#sec-simplification) on simplification in the book-in-progress on '[Geocomputation with Python](https://py.geocompx.org/)' that describes it as follow:

> _The main advanatage of `.toposimplify` is that it is topologically “aware”: it simplifies the combined borders of the polygons (rather than each polygon on its own), thus ensuring that the overlap is maintained._


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