Guys, Cheers for all the responses on this posting - sterling work! Its a credit to the flexibility of FME that one task can be achieved in so many ways. Regards, Johnny --- In [email protected], "Ryan Cragg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > For breaking lines at given distances, the Labeller can help. The > Labeller can create points at specified distances along a line (don't > worry about the text parameters, just give it dummy values). You can > then run these points and the original line through the > PointOnLineOverlayer to break the line. > > Regards, > > Ryan Cragg > > -----Original Message----- > From: Karim Elhanafi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: April 5, 2005 1:27 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [fme] Split a line feature at specified length. > > > > johnny, > > here may be an alternative way for generating measures: > > - use a densifier (e.g. 50cm) to insert vertices at a constant value > - use a measure generator to get a list containing distances > - by using a chopper in combination with a counter and linejoiner > you can extract any part of your previous line feature > > hope this helps a little bit. > cheers > karim > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark > Westenberger > Sent: Montag, 04. April 2005 20:38 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [fme] Split a line feature at specified length. > > > > You could use the 2D grid creator to generate a matrix of points, and > run these and the lines through a PointOnLineOverlayer. If you make the > GridCreator's row and column sizes the same as the overlayer's > tolerance, the lines will get split....if the objective were simply to > "make smaller lines" (?). > > (I don't know if you really mean to chop up the data like that) > > Mark > > >I have some very long line features that I would like to split up to > >improve performance. > > > >The Chopper transformer is the closest thing I can find, but this > >splits based on a maximum number of vertices. The vertex distances in > >my date are too inconsistent for me to use this - I would prefer to do > >something like - split every 10km. > > > >Is this possible? > > > >Cheers, > >Johnny O'Toole > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >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 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > 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/
