Dan, that rocks... Will it work with text features? :) Jason ________________________________
From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan Iseminger Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2007 10:26 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [fme] Bright ideas required I've created a custom transformer called MinimalBoundingBox which finds the smallest rectangle that encloses a feature or set of features, using the Rotating Calipers method from http://cgm.cs.mcgill.ca/~orm/rotcal.frame.html <http://cgm.cs.mcgill.ca/%7Eorm/rotcal.frame.html> It assumes that a convex feature as input, so a ConvexHullAccumulator or ConvexHullReplacer is needed first. This should solve your problem of building footprints, as well as others that I've seen in the past. http://www.fmepedia.com/index.php/Minimal_Bounding_Box
