Instead of finding neighbors set a radial distance from the feature, find neighbors that only fall in a particular linear direction or azimuth. It would be nice to have limited or unlimited distance and neighbors, and even nicer to have a lateral tolerance for how close to the line a prospective neighbor might be.
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Linear NeighborFinder (as opposed to radial)
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Hi @mrmartinstreet The NetworkCostCalculator might do what you want. There's a good example at https://knowledge.safe.com/articles/30048/creating-time-and-distance-isolines-using-the-netw.html
Hi Dan. That is interesting, but it isn't what I'm after. The current NeighborFinder uses a radial pattern to locate the closest neighbors that match a given criteria. This is the most suitable method for finding geographic neighbors. I'm looking for a more specialized tool for finding neighbors in a more linear, grid-like environment (like a drawing title block). For example, based on the location of a known piece of text, find all of the text elements that are directly in line with that piece of text above it in the TB. Right now I'm using coordinates in Python, but of course it would be easier if there was a transformer already fit to purpose.
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Hi @mrmartinstreet Could you turn the base feature into line in the direction you want and then use that line as the new base feature?
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The NeighborFinder does return an angle, could you not get the list of neighbours and then filter it for those whose angle matches (within tolerance) your azimuth?