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  • September 4, 2017
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ulfme
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***Note from Migration:***

Original Title was: Copy boundingbox, polygon or xmin, xmax, ymin, ymax from the Data Inspector into Workspace


The Inspector is often used to narrow down a specific area to a boundingbox to be used in Readers, Clippers etc. Users often transfer these values manually by looking at the coordinates. Personally I often measure the distance and copy the result from the log-window in the Inspector to a Creator in the Workspace. Even made a custom transformer to parse this result into a boundingbox:

Measure Distance in UTM83-10: 259.3745 (METER): (485831.2113, 5460647.1841) To (486053.7504, 5460513.9494)

But wouldn't it be great if this could be done much easier? For instance there could be a "Copy Extent" to GeoJson or FME XML. Then you could just paste this into a GeometryReplacer. Could even be much fancier with a drawingtool that could copy any drawn polygon to GeoJSON in the clipboard?

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mark2atsafe
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  • September 6, 2017
Good idea. Similar in concept to this one: https://knowledge.safe.com/idea/34353/use-a-map-driven-dialog-when-asking-users-for-boun.html - I've often thought a published parameter that accepted map input (from the DI?) would be awesome!

 

 


ulfme
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  • September 13, 2017
Yes it's very similar. Maybe the copy paste is easier on the developers though? I would go for both :-)