Thanks for the clarification (I need it).

It’s odd how things are interconnected. We use TCI’s MapTools utility in conjunction with Autodesk Map 3D at the City, and I ran into the site again when names were being bandied about for OSGeo. This third collision makes it a non-coincidence :)

Jason

The “ArcFilter” you reffered to is actually called the “CurveFitter”, but indeed ArcFitter might be a better name. It is technology provided by Tom Inloes of TCI Corporation (http://www.tcicorp.com/), and it really is almost better thought of as a kind of line generalization that, rather than removing vertices, replaces a run of vertices with a mathematical circular arc, arguably improving the accuracy of the map rather than diminishing it. We’ll be making more noise about Curvefit later this fall, once the rest of FME catches up with the Rich Geometry (paths consisting of Arcs and Line segments) that Curvefit kicks out.

It was also great to have you at the conference.

No quotes from Wordsworth, but perhaps reflecting upon Paul McCartney’s lyrics in a “Long and Winding Road” (http://www.seeklyrics.com/lyrics/Mccartney-Paul-Wings/The-Long-And-Winding-Road.html) would be fitting. One wonders if the road in question could be better represented with some arcs interspersed with the linestrings.

Dale

A bit of poorly repurposed Wordsworth:

My heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky:
So was it when my life began;
So is it now I am a man