Language Selection (Generic)
Normally, a generic mapping file names groups and attributes by some combination of their French and English names. The generated generic mapping file contains a few lines that may be uncommented to specify that the output files should contain only the French or English data group and attribute names.
Generating Metadata Report (Revision 2)
When a profile-specific mapping file is generated for an NTDB revision 2 CCOGIF file, it generates a report of the metadata in the file. When running the mapping file, the macro MetadataReportFilename must be defined. It contains the name of a file where the report is written. If a file already exists with this name, it will be overwritten with the report.
Tip: Tip: The advanced user may be interested to know that the actual generation of the report is performed by including the file $(FME_HOME)/metafile/ntdbv2Report.fmi into the mapping file.
Profile-Specific Theme Selection
By default, the profile-specific mapping files export all entity data from the input CCOGIF file to the output file. Often you only want to extract a single theme or a set of themes.
This may be performed by specifying a value for the NTDB_SelectedThemes macro when running the mapping file. This macro contains a comma-separated list of themes to be exported. If the macro is empty as it is by default, all themes are exported. The themes are specified either by the number or abbreviation in NTS Mapsheet Themes, Abbreviations, and Numbers.