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GUID passed in CREATEAGNGENBUILD

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arvisam

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Hi Arno
This is more of a feature request. Currently as I understand it the GUID passed along with CREATEAGNGENBUILD command is hard-coded, correct?

Would it be possible to 'parameterize' this by specifying a name of an attribute field in the DBF associated with the shapefile? This would potentially allow a designer to specify different 'styles' (GUIDs) for each polygon, allowing a very high degree of flexibility in the AGN generation.

For example, in the DBF from OSM shapefiles (the ones from GeoFabrik) the fields are:

osm_id name type

Suppose the designer adds their own field - StylGUID, then the requested CREATEAGNGENBUILD syntax would look like this:

CREATEAGNGENBUILD|FTYPE=POLYGON;FROMFILE=buildings.shp|%StylGUID%|MAXRATIO=2

This is just a proposal, I would appreciate if you think about it and see if it makes sense to incorporate some flexibility like this?

Thank you.

Arvind.
 
Hi,

I'll keep it in mind. In the current workflow you would have a different entry in the SPC file for each building type (GUID). You would then use the filter to select only those features you want. But I guess in some cases it would be useful to pre-process the shapefile and then just use an attribute value.
 
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