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Separated coordinate list to be supported in GeometryExtractor and GeometryRepla

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  • February 1, 2017
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redgeographics
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Original Title was: Separated coordinate list to be supported in GeometryExtractor and GeometryReplacer


I would like to suggest that the GeometryExtractor and GeometryReplacer support a separated list of xy or xyz coordinates as encoding. Useful additional parameters could be:

  • Separation character (potentially two, one for coordinate values, one for vertices)
  • Dimension (2D or 3D, although that could be derived from the separation characters)
  • Form areas (if the first and last point are the same a polygon is created, otherwise it'll be a polyline or point)

I often come across Excel or CSV data with XY coordinates in a single column, separated by a comma or something like that. Right now I have to use an AttributeSplitter and VertexCreator to deal with that, it'd be nice if it could be handled directly by the GeometryExtractor.

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takashi
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  • February 1, 2017

Agree, but I think a half of the idea has been realized by the CoordinateConcatenator (a kind of geometry extractor) already. If the GeometryReplacer could support coordinate list with any delimiter character, it would be better to integrate the current CoordinateConcatenator into the GeometryExtractor.


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I agree, that would be a logical step.