Given p, k and a set of polygonal curves P1, . . . , PL, the pmean curve M of P1, . . . , PL is the curve with at most k vertices that minimizes the Lp norm of the vector of Fréchet distances between each Pi and M . Also, the p-mean curve is the cluster representative (center) of Lp-based clusterings such as k-center, k-medians, and k-means. For p → ∞, this problem is known to be NP-hard, with lower bound 2.25 − on its approximation factor for any > 0. By relaxing the number of vertices to O(k), we were able to get constant factor approximation algorithms for p-mean curve with p = O(1) and p → ∞, for curves with few changes in their directions.