Hi Jason, I've got a similar problem that I've been tackling. I have MapInfo and the FME Suite. Unfortunately due to budget cuts they haven't sent me to training with FME so I've had to pick up what I can from trial and error and the internet.
My company uses GE smallworld GIS and I have an FME image that translate the smallworld GIS into .mid and .mif files on our projection system and for import into MapInfo. Then I will import the translated geometries into MapInfo. The geometries have been lines, polygons, and points. I've done some trial and error to be able to extract some additional information using FME Suite, especially the workbench. My goal is to be able to take the line geometries and convert them to a series of points (coordinates) with a certain amount of precision. We could then import this data into MS ACCESS to run complex queries. Also I'd like to be able to convert polygons into coordinates too. So if there is a way to use FME factory functions to extract many coordinates for a line or polygon, I would greatly appreciate you help. Thanks Jason, -Katie --- In [email protected], "Jason Birch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Depending on what result you're looking for, using either an OGCGeometryExtractor or a Chopper (1 vertex max) followed by a CoordinateFetcher in workbench will probably give you the result you want. Maybe give some more details or an example of what you want the output data to look like? > > Jason > > ________________________________ > > From: [email protected] on behalf of mapattack18 > Sent: Tue 2005-06-28 4:20 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [fme] Extracting XY coordinates > > > > I'm working in MapInfo and want to convert to XY coords in a CSV (or > txt) file. In the Universal Viewer, the Coordinate Listings for each > polygon appear, but when I translate to XY, I get only centroid > points. Because I haven't had luck converting from lines to points in > MapInfo, I figured the Viewer/Translator can also do this, but I have > yet to find out... > > thank you! > > > > > > > Get the maximum benefit from your FME, FME Objects, or SpatialDirect via our Professional Services team. Visit www.safe.com/services for details. > Yahoo! Groups Links Get the maximum benefit from your FME, FME Objects, or SpatialDirect via our Professional Services team. Visit www.safe.com/services for details. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fme/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
