Tool Name	Topologize Polylines
Tool ID	16
Library ID	shapes_lines
Version	1.0
Author(s)	Copyright (c) 2018-2022 by Johan Van de Wauw

Description

The topology module will convert a shapefile containing lines to a topological network of lines: the direction of every line (i.e., the point order) is used to create a network from and to nodes.

It will convert start and endpoints of every line to nodes
a new line shape is created with three attributes
the start_id and end_id will refer to the node_id, the length is the original length
the shape is either the original shape, or a simplified straight line between the nodes if “SIMPLIFY” is selected
if the original shapefile contains multiparts (e.g., e in the example above) each part will be exported as a separate line

Parameters

Name	Type	Identifier	Description	Constraints
Input
Input Lines	shapes, input	INPUTLINES
Target grid (for grid system)	grid, input, optional	SYSTEM
Output
Output Lines	shapes, output	OUTPUTLINES
Output Nodes	shapes, output, optional	OUTPUTPOINTS
Options
Tolerance Distance	floating point number	TOLERANCE		Default: 0.010000
Simplify	boolean	SIMPLIFY		Default: 0