lightning talk: fme 2012 tips and tricks

Interactive Tips & TricksA Quest… Mark StoakesManager, ProServices

April 2012

A Quest……for the FME

Lizard’s name

Help the FME Lizard solve some FME questions. Multiple guess questions are coming

Planning the trip

Route planning Get the Great Circle Route from

Vancouver to the destination

1. Since there isn’t a Great Circle (Loxodrome) transformer, should I first…

a. Give-up and use ArcGIS insteadb. Create a Great Circle custom transformer by myselfc. Write some Python or TCL coded. Checkout the FME Storee. Ask a friend if they’d create something for me

Possible Sitings…

Reconnaissance FME Lizard has photographed

several sites. He wants to load the images as FGDB attachments

2. To create a Esri Geodatabase with complex structures (attachments, domains, subtypes, relationships) should he…

a. Give-up and use ArcGIS insteadb. Use an FME templatec. Checkout the FMEpedia for a Geodatabase exampled. Use FME to reference an XML Workspace templatee. Use the XMLTemplater transformer

FME & Geodatabase Attachments

3. What configuration steps are needed to load attachments using FME?

a. Create the tables using ArcGIS or XML Template

b. Load the origin feature class (POI)

c. Load the destination table (attached images)

d. Set relationship attributes

e. Load the relationship table

Select one or more

Photo sharing Lizard can also submit his trip photos to FME

Server using the notification services that have been configured.

Thanks for submitting your photo to the demo system! Your photo has been added to the catalog. To see the photo go to the URL https://www.google.com/fusiontables/DataSource?snapid=S423487zYjn A red pin indicates a location of a photo. Click on that to see a thumbnail and a link to the complete photo. Each photo is also tagged with who emailed it.

Planning the trip…

…gathering data

Gather, QA and load data into File Geodatabase Boundaries, Settlements, Roads, Hydrology (Shape)

Destination FGDB

DEM (DTED) Imagery (GeoTIFF) 3D structures

(Sketch-up) Destination 3D PDF

Planning the trip…

…gathering data

Gather, QA and load data into File Geodatabase

4. Lizard doesn’t have ArcGIS installed. He wants to know if he can still load data to an Esri Geodatabase. Can he?

a. No. He should find some treasure and buy ArcGISb. Yes. Using the Esri Interop extensionc. Yes. Using the File Geodatabase API writerd. Yes. Using an XML Workspace templatee. Yes. But he has to install FME 2013

Planning the trip…

…gathering data

Gather, QA and load data into File Geodatabase

5. Lizard ran the Gather Data & QA workspace but now he can’t find the output FGDB. What’s the best thing to do?

a. Wait and ask Don or Dale boss if they knowb. Right Click and select “Open Containing Folder”c. Risk using Windows Searchd. Contact Safe Support at www.safe.com/support e. Just use Windows Explorer and start browsing

On the Coast

Coastal search… GPS Tracks to FGDB (API)

6. Lizard is not an XML expert. How should he read an XML-based GPS file?

a. XMLTemplater transformerb. XML Reader with xfmapsc. GML Readerd. XML Reader & Feature Pathse. Text File reader + loads of

transformers

<trkpt lat="16.9682833333333" lon="-88.221325"><ele>0.000</ele><time>2012-03-21T17:45:23Z</time>

</trkpt>

Interlude…

Road Network

Lizard needs to make sure he can get to all POI’s on his planned route…

Validate the Road Network Identify which roads do not connect to the main network

NetworkTopologyBuilder

Road Network

7. Lizard opened this workspace and pressed F11. What happened?

a. He sent us a notification with an image of the workspaceb. He opened the Overview window c. He zoomed into the currently selected transformerd. He maximized the workbench canvas to full screene. He bought a used F11 fighter jet on Ebay

Road Network

FME Transformer QuickAdd

8. Lizard needs a “nearest neighbo(u)r” transformer. What should he type into Quick Add?

a. NeighbourFinderb. NeighborFinderc. NFd. Depends which side of the Atlantic you’re one. Depends on your language setting

Select one or more

Road Network

Confirm the POI’s are close to a Road

NeighbourFinder Transformer

Caracol search

Shortest Path from Hopkins to Caracol ShortestPathFinder

Final Showdown - Caracol Encounter

Build 3D Model AOI Boundary DEM LiDAR TIN Surface Satellite Imagery 3D Model

LiDAR flyover

9. While acquiring airborne LiDAR of Caracol, Lizard sees multiple returns (he’s not gone cross-eyed!) and needs to pick the correct classification. Which transformer should he use to get the best ground surface:

a. TestFilterb. PointCloudSplitterc. PointCloudThinnerd. PointCloudGroundSurfaceAcquirere. PointCloudCoercer

Final Showdown…

Output to 3D PDF

Lizard discovers

his name…

Quest…

10. Where did Lizard go on his quest?

a. Guatemalab. Mexicoc. British Hondurasd. Hondurase. Belizef. Costa Rica

Thanks for coming…

Final Prizes & Wrap-up

The quest is over……

the adventure is just

beginning!