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Is there a way around to convert from Vertices to Line with GPS attributes to keep them ?

  • August 6, 2024
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probert1968
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Hi friends,

I am trying to do converstion from a vertices to lines that I am working on for a somebody. He use a GPS to track prarire dogs for his work.

So I looked at the shapefile he provided me and it has no GPS. So I create them with the latitude and longtitude.

Β What I am trying to do here is to use the LineBuilder here and then use writer to create a new shapefile…

It came out nothing…

What might I go wrong here ?

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I work for US agency and we have FME Desktop 2022.2 version. Do not ask me why.

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Thanks

Trying to learn and understand how to use FME !!

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      jkr_wrk
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      • jkr_wrkInfluencer
      • August 7, 2024

      Working with FME 2021.2 mostly here. Have 2022, 2023 and 2024 also but no need to use that.

      But your question is a bit hard to understand.

      You have a shapefile, but the shapefile does not have geometry (what you call GPS). But it has a column lat and long. So you used a VertexCreator to make point geometry. And now you want to convert Point geometry to Line geometry.

      This is indeed done with a LineBuilder.

      You can connect the LineBuilder to an Inspector to see if the result is as expected.

      If that's true then you can start using a FeatureWriter to write the data into a Shapefile. If you set it to the right parameters it should create a Shapefile containing a Line. But for now we don't even know if the data is what you expect so the error could be anywhere.

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      πŸ’‘ Did you know... The FeatureWriter is more intuitive. 😏
        smclaugh1
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        • smclaugh1Contributor
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        • August 7, 2024

        It would be helpful to see a copy of your workspace or even a screen capture. You need to createΒ vertices using the coordinates before you use linebuilder and you should assign a coordinate system to the line before you write it to a shapefile.

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