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Could I create maps with Classify and FeatureColorSetter


joy
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Hello everyone,

Based on the following video I was delving a bit into the Classifier transformer in combination with the FeatureColorSetter and I was quite pleased with the possibility of coloring polygons based on a class.

I assume making maps such as traditionally done in arcgis pro, is currently not possible in FME.
However, since it's now possible to create chloropeth maps or give classes random colors now based on classes generated by the Classifier Transformer, I  was thinking it might be a nice step in the direction of being able to create maps in FME. 

My wish would be as follows:

You could for example use the classes id (generated by the Classifier transformer) and a label for the classes id to create the legend for the map.
A title can then be filled in by the user and maybe a scale bar can automatically be generated based on the extent/coordinates of the data. Moreover the user can move where the following objects should be placed on a landscape/portrait on some kind of preview screen
 

I think it would be very nice to create maps like traditionally done ArcGIS pro, also in FME.

In case something like that is already possible, I would like to know :)

 

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redgeographics
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I think it would definitely be possible, we’ve done some work on PDF layouts with FME (PDFPageFormatter) but the same thing could be done with rasters.

One important thing to note is that all of the non-map content (such as title, scale bar, legend) has to live in a coordinate space as well (the same as your map, or one of its own if you’re using the PDFPageFormatter)


joy
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  • May 22, 2024

@redgeographics Thank you! I will look into the PDFPageFormatter  and play around with it a little.


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