jtgiermak wrote:

> I have a lot of experience with GIS / RS software but just downloaded
> the FME for ESRI edition. I have successfully built several data
> translators, but run into a couple of problems.
> 
> I am trying to output features from a geodatabase (polygons) into a
> CSV file using the OGCGeometryExtractor. 
> 
> Some polygons have a lot of vertices, yet the attribute properties
> maximum width for a text field (char) is 999999 characters. Is there a
> way to go beyond that?

I always set it to 255 and then let FME take care of it. Never had any 
problems that way.

> some features output as GEOMETRYCOLLECTION and some as POLYGON. what
> do i need to do to output either MULTIPOLYGON or POLYGON ?

I'm not sure, but perhaps if you try to aggregate the polygons that 
should be output as MULTIPOLYGON that would work.

Hope this helps.
-- 
Hans van der Maarel
Red Geographics
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