Writer Directives

This section describes the directives processed by the VPF writer module. Each of the directives is prefixed by the current <WriterKeyword>_ when they are placed in a mapping file. By default, the <WriterKeyword> for the VPF writer is VPF_DB.

DATASET

Required/Optional: Required

The value for this parameter is the path to where the output databases’s root folder is created. A typical mapping file fragment is:

VPF_DATASET /vpf_output/my_vmap0/

Workbench Parameter: Destination Vector Product Format Database (VPF_DB) Folder

FEAT_TYPE_SEP

Required/Optional: Optional

Workbench Parameter: VPF Feature Class Separator

LOG_ALL_MESSAGES

Required/Optional: Optional

Workbench Parameter: Log all messages

PRODUCT

Workbench Parameter: VPF Product Name

SKIP_TILE_CLIPPING

Required/Optional: Optional

Workbench Parameter: Skip tile clipping

WRITER_MODE

Required/Optional: Optional

Workbench Parameter: Writer MODE