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LineOnAreaOverlayer

Performs a line-on-area overlay. Each input line is split at any area boundaries it intersects.

Parameters

Transformer

Parameters

Attribute Accumulation

If attributes on the incoming and original feature share the same name, but are not geometry attributes that start with fme_, then they are deemed conflicted.

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Usage Notes

Each resulting piece receives the attributes of the area(s) it is contained in, and each containing area receives the attributes of the line. When attributes are merged between features, existing attributes are not replaced.  Therefore, if the lines and areas being overlaid have attributes with the same name, then the values will not be transferred from one to the other.

You can avoid this problem by renaming (AttributeRenamer), prefixing (AttributeExpressionRenamer), or removing (AttributeRemover) attributes to avoid name collisions.

Aggregates are not supported by this transformer.

Example

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Transformer Categories

Geometric Operators

FME Licensing Level

FME Professional edition and above

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