Generic Lines

This Subflow provides basic line generalisation capabilities (chaining and simplification). It uses the following parameters:

Parameter Description Default Value
SimplificationPriority When a simplification or smoothing algorithm is applied to shared links, the link will be simplified by the feature with the highest priority value. 1
TopologyPriority

Priority used during the topological structuring. Lower priority features will be snapped to higher ones.

1
WeightedEffectiveAreaMinimumArea

The threshold in square metres for the weighted effective area algorithm.

150m2
AttributesMustMatch

Pipe separated list of the names of attributes that must have identical values if two objects are to be chained.

N/a
BreakChainClasses

Pipe separated list of class names. The chaining will stop at nodes shared by a feature of one these classes.

N/a

Steps Used by the Generic Line Subflow

  1. Chain Generic Lines

    This action chains the line features, so that features only change at junctions (or according to parameter values).

  2. Apply Weighted Effective Area On Generic Line Links.

    This action simplifies line features, taking care of shared boundaries.

  3. Re-apply Weighted Effective Area On Failed Edges.

    This reprocesses features that failed to simplify in the previous step.

  4. Set Generic Line ID

    This action assigns a random unique ID to features which have a null ID.