Hi Bill,
 
Sorry if this isn't exactly correct; I'm writing from an extremely slow laptop 
with no access to FME.
 
You should be able to accomplish your required result without using the tblDoc 
table at all, though you may wish to link to it later...
 
First, add the Parcel shapefile and tblParcelDoc to the workspace as data 
sources.  Next, run them through a FeatureMerger, with the Parcel stream as the 
Requestor and the tblParcelDoc stream as the Supplier.  Make sure to specify a 
list to write 1:m relationship data to.  Next, take the Complete (and 
incomplete?) output ports and connect them to a single ListExploder.  This will 
create a single feature for each match in the above FeatureMerger.  Finally, 
run the output of this through a Dissolver to remove interior lines and 
optionally an Aggregator if you want to form regions for disjoint DocNum 
parcels.
 
If you have any donut polygons, you may have to build a process to account for 
these as the Dissolver (I think) doesn't dissolve donuts.  Which is why it's 
not called the Coffee transformer.
 
Let me know if I misunderstood the initial question; I think this should work.
 
Jason
 
-- 
  Jason Birch, Sr. Applications Analyst
  Information Technology Office, City of Nanaimo
  455 Wallace St., Nanaimo, BC, Canada, V9R 5J6
  Phone: (250) 755-4460 Extension 250


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From: [email protected] on behalf of Bill Voigt
Sent: Mon 2005-09-19 5:55 PM
To: [email protected]
Cc: Raymond Kinser (E-mail)
Subject: [fme] Queries for shapefiles and attributes


Here's a challenging project that I can't figure out how to solve in FME

1.      I have a parcel shapefile with APN (Assessor Parcel Number) 
2.      I have a table tblParceDoc containing two fields: APN and DocNo.  The 
latter field is a reference to a Record map, survey, or parcel map.  A single 
parcel may have serveral different documents, a given document may cover 
several parcels 
3.      I have a table tblDoc with a uniuqe field [DocNo] with other attributes 
pertaining to the document 
4.      Here is the relationship between the tables

Parcel                                  tblParcelDoc                            
            tblDoc
[Shape]
[APN] <-----1 to M--------> [APN]
                                              [DocNo]  <----M to 1 
--------------> [DocNo]
 
What I'd like to get is a UNION of all parcel shapes for each unique [DocNo]
 
In Arcview, I can link the three and for each record selection in tblDoc, 
select all parcels in the shapefile.  I can manually do a Union for each 
shape, but this is obviously not an efficient method.  
 
Any advice would be appreciated.
 
--Bill

William G Voigt           (415) 485-3366 voice 
GIS Analyst               (415) 485-3334 fax 
Dept Public Works         111 Morphew St 
City of San Rafael  San Rafael, CA 94901 

 
 
 
 


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