MRF2DDangleRemover
Removes features that have at least one free endpoint and have lengths smaller than (Dangle Factor * Cleaning Tolerance) or (Dangle Factor * value of Feature Tolerance Attribute).
Output Ports
Each feature that is output through the Cleaned port will have a new attribute "mrf_clean_status" added to specify whether the feature was modified, created, or unchanged in the cleaning process. The possible values of this attribute are "Modified", "Created" and "Original".
If Dangle Action is set to Remove Short and Flag Long, for each feature that is a dangle but is longer than this tolerance, a point, label, or circle (depending on the value of Flag Type) will be output through the Flagged port.
Parameters
Transformer
If selected, each group of features with the same values in the Group By attributes will be processed separately from other groups.
Note: How parallel processing works with FME: see About Parallel Processing for detailed information.
This parameter determines whether or not the transformer should perform the work across parallel processes. If it is enabled, a process will be launched for each group specified by the Group By parameter.
Parallel Processing Levels
For example, on a quad-core machine, minimal parallelism will result in two simultaneous FME processes. Extreme parallelism on an 8-core machine would result in 16 simultaneous processes.
You can experiment with this feature and view the information in the Windows Task Manager and the Workbench Log window.
No: This is the default behavior. Processing will only occur in this transformer once all input is present.
By Group: This transformer will process input groups in order. Changes on the value of the Group By parameter on the input stream will trigger batch processing on the currently accumulating group. This will improve overall speed if groups are large/complex, but could cause undesired behavior if input groups are not truly ordered.
Parameters
Cleaning tolerance is used as the default tolerance unless the Feature Tolerance Attribute is specified and valid. The minimum tolerance allowed is 0.0.
The number of layers used in cleaning the data is determined by the number of different tolerance values of input features. Features that have the same tolerances are processed as being on the same layer.
The default value is 1.0 and the minimum value is 0.0.
If Dangle Action is set to Remove Short and Flag Long, for each feature that is a dangle but is longer than this tolerance, a point, label, or circle (depending on the value of Flag Type) will be output through the Flagged port.
For each feature that is a dangle but is longer than the flag size tolerance, this parameter sets the flag type as a point, label or circle, if Dangle Action is set to Remove Short and Flag Long.
Usage Notes
This transformer performs the same operation as the MRF2DCleaner with the Remove Dangles parameter set to Yes and no other options selected. See the MRF2DCleaner for more details.1Portions of this work are the intellectual property of the MRF Geosystems Corporation and are used under license. Copyright © 2006 MRF Geosystems Corporation. All rights reserved. Note that the circle/label flagging is an added option in this transformer.
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The MRFCleaner transformers are available as an extra-cost package from Safe Software. Please contact sales@safe.com or call 604-501-9985.
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