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Need to snap point to nearest point on same line

Hi All, I'm trying to find a way to snap a point on a line segment to a point on one of the line ends, based on whichever one is closer. The points on the line segment and the line itself share a common asset ID, but the points on the ends of the lines are strictly geometry. The only attribution is a unique ID, but it doesn't relate to the line or the point on the line at all. Right now I am using a spatial relator on the lines and end points. I now have, per each line segment feature, a list of end points that touch it. I want to find a way to use NeighborFinder (or anything else - i'm open to ideas) to say "ok, where the line asset ID and the on-line point asset ID match, find the closest line end-point from the list. I've attached a small diagram/graphic to illustrate what I'm on about. Any help would be appreciated!

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1 year ago

alvareap

asked in Transformers

How to think about custom transformers?

Hey All. I've been looking through the tutorials to set up custom transformers because I wanted a programatic way to define workflows and I was planning on encapsulating/stitching together a Reader, GeometryFilters, and Writer into one custom transformer that took input files, output folder and various other runtime arguments as parameters. The reason for this is to be able to dynamically define the links between workflow steps, whereas now it would require a lot of manual UI work to define a workflow that worked for a file with 1 specific set of features. Is this the right way to be thinking about this problem?

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1 year ago

jknakes

asked in Transformers

snap line endpoints to point features using common attribute

Hello, I'm trying to snap two line feature layers to one of two separate point feature layers. In the line layers there is a owner1 field and a owner2 field, on the point layers there is a ownerid. Hopefully the screen shot below helps clear it up a bit. I tried using the anchoredsnapper using the owner1 and owner2 as the group by and a snapping tolerance of up to 75 feet which is much larger than I should need. I had the line layers going into the candidate and the point layers in as the anchors. I have not used this transformer before so I'm not sure if i'm using it correctly. I'm getting features to snap, but most com out as untouched. I expected that to have far more of the lines snap. Any help of ideas would be appreciated, thanks. field. I want the point features to be what the lines snap to. Either of the owner fields in the line layers can match the owner field in either point layer.

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1 year ago

asked in Transformers

snapping line end vertex to nearest point

Hello I have a number of connectors which touch a main line but do not split it. I want to be able to select the connectors that are not currently attached to a node and snap their vertex to the closest node point as shown by red dashed lines. I assume I have to form a relationship between the connectors and the main line and then the main line and the node points? Or can it just be undertaken using X,Y co-ordinates and proximity. Any help greatly appreciated.

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1 year ago

gogopotter90Contributor

asked in Transformers

problem with snapping lines to points ,how could manage different points not the same distance around sveeral lines

i would like to ask :i want to snap several small lines to closet point ,i have around 20 point but i have problem with only 2 point .each small lines connects to different lines around each point First point : 6 lines around 1 point around 1.30 mSecond point : 5 lines around 1 point around 1.50 m For First point : i used snapper but i got the problem ,i have to use maximum 1.3 because more than it ,it will snap the second line instead of the first line close to the point . but i need to use value higher than 1.30 ,around 1.5 to snap the second point but it is not working well with the first point , because it snapped wrong lines . i tried neighbor finder with generate list ,i found it gives me alll lines around it and each line that i have around this point small line connects to lone line and it give me each lines connected around this point . i tried alot but i am not sure how could i manage snapping between this 2 points FME Version 2018Thanks in advance for any help

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1 year ago

dmerrickContributor

asked in Data

Insert watermark into PDF

Hi,I am trying to insert a watermark disclaimer into construction PDF's as part of a distribution workspace that is an part of a FME Server App.The key part of the workspace is that pdf's are filecopied into a zipped folder before being distributed, these pdf's range in size (napkin to Arch D, to legal letter, whatever was scanned), but the disclaimer can be in the same spot (ie. bottom left hand corner, 150x, 150y). The PDF writers limitation is that it can only write to certain page sizes, which is an issue, so inserting a text disclaimer is not feasible.The filecopy maintains the page size/pdf quality, but I am at a loss for adding a watermark/overlay/text.FME Desktop 2021.0FME Server FME Server 2021.0.1 Thanks!

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1 year ago

donjensen

asked in Transformers

Writing ArcFM data to a file geodatabase.

I am trying to write ArcFM data to an ESRI file geodatabase. I have created a workspace that reads a feature class, a relationship class and feature linked annotation and writes it directly to a file geodatabase. There are no transformers. I am trying to preserve the relationship between the feature class and the feature linked annotation. I have added a python script that checks out an ArcFM license so that I can write to an ArcFM object. The annotation writes the data just fine, but the feature class gives me a 'Table not found error'. I also import schema from the source database. The writer also has the Create Table If Need option selected. I have attached the log file. Any help would be appreciated.

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1 year ago

nedwatermanContributor

asked in Transformers

Issue with SpatialRelator

Morning,I'm using the SpatialRelator to find what points (a site) relate to lines (sewers) to find the type of sewer is joined to the site.Despite configuring the SpatialRelator to Requestor intersects / touches the Supplier the output is showing no relationships: Can anyone let me know if this is correct? Do I need to apply a tolerance?Both features come from the same GIS system, with the same coordinate system, and that GIS does not allow features not to join each other in the connected network, so there is definitely a relationship between the point and line. Cheers

Read text in FME from Spatial data

Is it possible to read text that has been written on the geodata and has not been tabulated? for example a box representing a building with a label in the middle displaying building number 4.

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1 year ago

trembathp

asked in Transformers

When updating featureReader (spatialite) to FME 2022 - spatial filter no longer working

I have some workbenches authored in FME 2020 which contain a FeatureReader to read a SpatiaLite database. The spatial filter is set to read features that intersect with the initiator (a simple polygon). This was working well in FME 2020. When updating my workbench in 2022, the input format has to be updated from "SPATIALITE (GDAL)" to "SPATIALITE_NATIVE". When the featureReader is updated, the spatial filter no longer works. Is this expected? ===UPDATE:On further testing I found that spatial filter works if I specify a table to read in 'Feature types to read' but does not work if 'Feature types to read' is empty. If this parameter is empty I would expect the reader to read all tables. Is this a bug?

How does a single-fixed license work?

We want to purchase a single-fixed license for one of our virtual machines and we were wondering what that is linked to? What if we have to destroy the virtual machine, then we can't reuse it?Thanks in advance!

1 year ago

jpbarnes

asked in Transformers

CKANConnector - Reorder resources within a dataset - Place new resource at the top of the listing

Using the CKANConnector to Create Resource on OpenGov, works great the issue I'm having is how do you reorder the resources ( or place the new resource at the top of the ordering) by default the sequence number is Max + 1 placing the new resource at the bottom of the listing. In this case we have a few hundred Resources under that one dataset.

Editing value in published parameter but getting an error when saving file.

I would like to update an email address within a published parameter. I am able to edit the value but when I hit the Save button it gives me an error and says it cannot save and save to another location. What am I not doing?

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1 year ago

fme_can_do_itSupporter

asked in General

Can the FME workspace be published on the FME server when the build is different?

I am currently running FME Server 2022.0.0.2 Build 22343 and FME Desktop 2022.0.1.0 Build 22346. My question is whether it is safe to keep the FME server at its current build version. Would it be better to upgrade the FME server to the same version as the FME desktop? It would be greatly appreciated if you could assist with this.

1 year ago

aintgotnosoul

asked in General

I installed FME Desktop on a PC & chose the one seat that avail. to me (FME Desktop Edition as floating license type). So far so good. It shows 1 seat "In Use" This app FME Desktop got uninstalled, it still shows 1 seat "In Use" How to release this

I did go into C:\\ProgramData\\Safe Software\\FME and deleted the License folder within, but that won't refresh anything that shown in FME Desktop Licensing Assistant. I am looking to see 0 under "In Use" column shown in the Licensing Assistant little window.1) How do I refresh the license server (? I do know its name -- hostname of my floating license server-- if that what it takes to see the 0 under "In Use" column?2) I need to release the seat so I can reuse it to license the FME Desktop again after I'm done with re-installing the app (Currently it keeps saying the one seat is still "In Use." Is it because I didn't not release it properly by just doing an 'accidental' uninstallation of my FME Desktop prior?3) Do I need to do anything with the register key it gave me?Thanks.

LAS file coordinate system

I'm still new and learning FME. I've added GDA2020 zone 56 (EPSG:7856) to 4 las files within FME. I've run this by add reader function of LAS files with no coordination system and using the add writers function to select the coordination system and the output file. They output the correct coordinate system but took over 3 hours to run for 4 LAS files. Is there a quicker way to added coordinate system for LAS file within FME, as I have to run over 1100 LAS files?

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1 year ago

mennos

asked in Transformers

Can somebody provide me with a working example or a clear explanation of a module or start value counter in xfMap? The example given in the documentation does not seem to be correct.

counter_Expressions

1 year ago

saravanakumarSupporter

asked in Transformers

how to connect two different layers data of .dwg file? (point and line)

Hello all, I am trying to merge two different layer data from DWG file. In that one layer is line geometry and another layer is point (text) . Here I wish to connect text to nearer line geometry but I tried different transformers but I could not !FYI - I tried spatialfilter, Neighbourfinder Thank you for advance!

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1 year ago

renetschiContributor

asked in General

How can i perform a spatial join of points with many to many (m:n) relation?

Hello everyboy! I got two different point feature classes. The neighbor finder lets me do the 1:1 and 1:n relation which is fine. Now i would like to perform a spatial many to many (m:n) relation of the points of the two feature classes but i can't figure out a decent way to do this in fme. I really appreciate your help! Thanks a lot!René

Hi, is there an alternate solution available from safe to replace the basic authentication for IMAP and SMTP? Since Microsoft will stop supporting this solution soon

How do I visualise points given two columns of lat/long?

Hi, I have three features; each feature has a lat and long column. How do I read the lat/long to visualise the features as points on a map (e.g. HTML map or in the Visual Preview within FME)?

1 year ago

gistech_Contributor

asked in Transformers

Polyline to polygon

I am struggling to convert a polyline ( 2d & 3d ) to Esri feature class. I have used a geometry filter + Elevation Extractor + 2d Forcer + Area Builder. However half of the result of Area Builder transformer appears to be incomplete. Any idea as to how to convert all the polylines in to a polygon successfully....? Thank you

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1 year ago

dkirouac

asked in Transformers

Check JSON Coordinates For Correct Order

I have JSON files that I am reading and using GeometryFilter to create points. GeometryFilter is looking for the coordinates as long, lat. Some of the points in the JSON input are incorecly entered as lat,long. Is there are way to read the JSON coordinates and switch the coordinates to long, lat if they are incorrectly set to lat,long? For example:CHANGE FROM"geometry":{ "type":"Point", "coordinates":[ 29.32991754843333 , -82.16997782090549]TO"geometry":{ "type":"Point", "coordinates":[ -82.16997782090549, 29.32991754843333 ]Thanks,David

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1 year ago

john_eskContributor

asked in Transformers

Symbolize point layer based on attribute in HTMLReportGenerator

I'm using the HTMLReportGenerator to display a map with points. In the "Label Attribute" setting I've combined several attributes. I want the points that contains a certain word to be in a certain color. In my example I have two different words that should determine the color, "KFF" and "SBF". The label attribute is a long string containing these and some other values ("Example: {3553} KFF). Is there a way you can achieve this with StringReplacer? If feature.properties.name contains KFF than set the color to red else set the color to green.

I have problem in running FME server on Mac. I Launched a new FME Server Stack and Start FME Server, but when I try to accessing the Web User Interface, I received "This site can’t be reached" error. Is there anyone who knows the mistake?

1 year ago

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