Convert WKTpolygon to polygon geom - Usual modifiers don't seem to be able to cope with it?

Geometry Replacer does seem to work - when selecting MapInfo as the output.

Seems it is just .SHP output where the result is lots of vertex points.

FME 2018.1.1.2

Hi @matt_ccc,

If you inspect the output from the GeometryReplacer are the polygons being created correctly or are there multiple features with different geometry? Also, what do you have set for the Geometry Parameter in in the Shapefile Writer Feature Type Parameters?

If your dataset contains multiple geometries (i.e. POINT, MULTIPOLYGON, LINESTRING, etc.) you may need to use a GeometryFilter prior to the writer to ensure features of the same geometry are being sent to the same writer feature type.

thanks, that will probably sort it.

probably more just confusion by why the .TAB exporter dealt with it without issue whereas the .SHP exporter needs extra processing.

kind regards. M

Hi @matt_ccc,

Main reason is that MapInfo and Shapefile have different specifications and geometry support. For example, you are able to do this with the MapInfo Writer because "a single MapInfo map file can contain many different types of geometry however, the associated attributes must have the same number and type of fields for each entity in the file." as per the documentation.