Builiding Topology for GIS data

The TopologyBuilder will break geometries at intersections. At each intersection a node is created that contains topological relationship info. Other than that it will not modify the geometries, e.g. it will not do anything about potential overshoots, undershoots or pseudo nodes.

There are several articles that describe the TopologyBuilder in detail:

https://knowledge.safe.com/articles/988/building-topology-calculate-route-length-topologyb.html

https://knowledge.safe.com/articles/698/working-with-networks-topology-and-networktransfor.html

Thank you for your answer,

I'm not sure I understand. How is it a topology if the edges don't connect (meaning that the lines do not break at the intersection)?

You could always use the TopologyBuilder and just keep the nodes and ignore the edges, but I'm not sure that would make much sense?

Would it be an option for you to run the topology with TopologyBuilder and then compare the result with the original? Lines that would be split should then show as changed.

@lianaolianov

To do that you need to prepare your data.

Mainly prepare and making the intended network clean for Topologybuilding, ma.

Identify which objects should not interact to exclude them from intersection (using some attribute to indicate this) and transform "some segments into common edges" .

When this is done you can use a intersector.

Add some POI points at this stage if required using a PointOnLineOverlayer.

Then send all to a topologybuilder with assume data is clean. (if you did it correctly, it shoud be clean at that stage).

I do this to for instance not get nodes at tunnels or bridges crossing roads at different levels. POI to map routes containing relevant data to geometry.

Admittedly tricky to build.

I think maybe that I am misunderstanding the topology concept for linear networks. I tought that 2 lines can be considered as connected at their intersection without being broken there. That's wrong right ?