Hi David, Glad to hear your positive thoughts on FME. I think yours is a good solution; it's certainly the one I first thought of and certainly what we designed custom transformers for.
The only suggestion I could add would be to store the parameters in a text or csv file. Then you can read the file into the workspace and use its values for the offsets. The advantage there is that you can change the offsets w/o having to edit the workspace, plus there could be a different file for different scales of mapping. Just a thought. FYI I think there is an Australian user doing something similar with framing - they use FME to convert to SVG then another package to convert to PDF. I saw an output and it looked pretty good. See http://www.ipe.nt.gov.au/whatwedo/landinformation/newsletter.html This sort of cartographic use of FME isn't something we really encourage, btw, but it can be useful at times. Mark Mark Ireland, Product Support Engineer Safe Software Inc. Surrey, BC, CANADA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.safe.com Solutions for Spatial Data Translation, Distribution and Access --- In [email protected], "David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If your FME allows it, Custom Transformers. > > Design your custom transformer to do the offsetting replacing of > points and text, and then add some parameters to your custom > transformer to allow you to control it externally (i.e > postion=TOPLEFT,...). > > Then all you need to really worry about is maintaining your custom > Transformer, or your files that use it, but not both. > > This is a fantastic inclusion in FME, and everybody should be using it > like there was no tomorrow. And NO, I am in no way affiliated with > Safe ;-) > > David Hayes > > --- In [email protected], "annettefarrell" <afarrell@> wrote: > > > > > > Hi there, > > > > I'm building coordinates to frame Ordnance Survey Ireland NTF (like OSGB > > NTF) tiles as this is no longer provided. > > > > I use the border of the tile, get the bounding extents and manipulate > > this to get 8 strings of text and place the coordinate outside the > > border of the tile using multiple series of the following transformers: > > EXPRESSIONEVALUATOR (to offset text placement) , 2DPOINTREPLACER (place > > point), LABELPOINTREPLACER (place text at offset point), > > ATTRIBUTECREATOR (justify and rotate for design file output) > > > > It works but my workspace is very messy with no modularity and will be > > hard to maintain in the long term as I've nearly got one of the above > > transformers for each string of text to place. This is because each > > string has a specific justification, rotation etc. So I'm wondering if > > any one has any other ideas on how they approach this that I'm missing. > > > > Thanks > > > > Annette > > > > P.S. Happy Saint Patrick's Day > > > 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/
