GeoConcept Map Reader Feature Type Parameters

To access feature type parameters, click the gear icon on a feature type in the workspace. This opens the Feature Type Parameter Editor.

Tip  To always display the editor in FME Workbench, you can select View > Windows > Parameter Editor.

General

All feature types share similar General parameters, which may include Feature Type Name, Reader or Writer information, and Geometry.

In most Writer Feature Type parameter dialogs, you can also control Dynamic Schema Definitions. Some database formats accept Table or Index Qualifier prefixes on the output table feature type.

These parameters apply only to a selected feature type, not to the entire reader.

Important  If a feature type parameter corresponds to a reader-level parameter, then the reader parameter will be ignored and the feature type parameter will be used.

Advanced

Select logical zoom scale to use for appearances

GeoConcept maps allow objects to have different appearances at different levels of zoom. This parameter is used to determine which zoom level the reader should use to extract appearance information. In other words, if an object has a different appearance at zoom level 4 than at zoom level 5, setting this parameter to 4 will result in different appearance values than if it were set to 5.

Values: Only the integer values 1 to 12 are allowed.

It is not currently possible to capture all zoom level appearance values.

Note  Some zoom levels will have the appearance for certain objects set to invisible.

Use each map subclass to determine appearance

This parameter provides a small performance increase on large datasets.

The default way to handle appearances is to extract the appearance values from each object. However, in GeoConcept, it is quite common for all members of a class or class/subclass to have the same appearance settings.

Setting this parameter to Yes tells the reader to only extract the appearance settings once – at the class/subclass level – rather than once for every object of that type.