Hi Rhodri

 

 

This is not that straight forward ... What you can use is the "MapInfoStyler" and some lookups - AttributeValueMapper (i.e. depending on the OS data attribues). And you will be limited to what MapInfo gives you for styling ... If you are lucky someone has done that before ...

 

 

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I spent a little time outlining some of the styling options that you can use when working with MapInfo in this webinar. I'd probably suggest a combination of the SchemaMapper and the MapInfoStyler. Certainly the AttributeValeMapper will help though a slight downside is that you end up hard coding the style information into your workspace, with the SchemaMapper you can store your style details in say XLS and then adapt the style or make variations stored in XLS without a need to change the FME workspace:

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1c_zGs9HjCA

 

 

To go down the style sheet route you may need to look to read the XML, parse the style out by FeatureCode and then join it onto each feature. I suspect given the complexity of VML you may find this approach quite complex.

 

 

Feel free to drop me a note with a bit more detail off the group once you've taken a look at YouTube, at david.eagle@1spatial.com.

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I spent a little time outlining some of the styling options that you can use when working with MapInfo in this webinar on YouTube below. I'd probably suggest a combination of the SchemaMapper and the MapInfoStyler. Certainly the AttributeValeMapper will help though a slight downside is that you end up hard coding the style information into your workspace, with the SchemaMapper you can store your style details in say XLS and then adapt the style or make variations stored in XLS without a need to change the FME workspace.

 

 

To go down the style sheet route you may need to look to read the XML, parse the style out by FeatureCode and then join it onto each feature. I suspect given the complexity of VML you may find this approach quite complex.

 

 

Feel free to drop me a note with a bit more detail off the group once you've taken a look at YouTube, at david.eagle@1spatial.com.

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We have done something similar, albeit by taking a stylesheet and putting it into a csv file, appending some extra columns and then using a featuremerger to take that into fme.  Happy to share if you want to take a look.

 

 

We're quite a small authority so we don't have that much data going in, not sure how well if would handle larger areas.

 

 

 

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Does anyone have an FME workspace they are willing to provide me with to translate the OS Vector Map Local (vector dataset)? We already have a workspace and style sheet which I think was provided by the OS but the latest release of OS vector map is not translating all of the features for particular tiles? One of the tiles in question is SJ99NE.

 

 

Many thanks in advance,

 

Chris

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