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  • March 13, 2026
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nath
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Hi, 

I want to import the WFS service from Digitaal Vlaanderen, specifically the address registry, but my FME only imports a maximum of 10,000 features.

I had found that it was possible via paging, but apparently that is no longer supported, or at least I can’t find it. It should then be done via loops, but I’m stuck. I found that it should be possible using an HTTP caller and JSON fragmenter, but I’m already stuck with my HTTP caller. Could someone help me set this up correctly? The URL is https://geo.api.vlaanderen.be/Adressenregister/wfs?REQUEST=GetCapabilities&SERVICE=WFS

 

 

 

 

 

 

Best answer by nielsgerrits

When I try to replicate this it continued past 10.000 features. I stopped at 90k. My settings:

You probably want to set count at a higher number. 10.000 does also work, less overhead.

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      redgeographics
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      If you use a WFS reader and set the WFS version to 2.0.0 it should start paging until you hit the Max Features value set in the reader -or- another limit set by whoever maintains the WFS service. 

      Looks like that limit is 10000 for this service

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      nath
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      • March 16, 2026

      Yeah, but isn't there a way to get around that? 

      redgeographics
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      If you need addresses for a small area you can feed that into a FeatureReader and then use its Spatial Filter option. But even then, if you get over that 10000 limit it’ll stop. So requesting smaller areas is an option, but it’s hard to say beforehand how small they need to be.

       

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      • March 16, 2026

      When I try to replicate this it continued past 10.000 features. I stopped at 90k. My settings:

      You probably want to set count at a higher number. 10.000 does also work, less overhead.

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        hermann
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        • March 17, 2026

        Possibly FilterExpressions might help to solve your problem: WFS Filter Expressions

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        • March 17, 2026

        I had a similar case recently, with a GeoServer WFS and a defined maximum, we ended up creating a grid and requesting features with those squares as bounding boxes.

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        • March 23, 2026

        OMG it worked! It was the “count”. 

        Thx :-)

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        OMG it worked! It was the “count”. 

        Thx :-)

        Cheers :)

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