The FeatureReader /

FeatureWriter Revolution

Agenda

• FeatureReader and

FeatureWriter overview

• What can you do with the

FeatureReader?

• What can you do with the

FeatureWriter?

• Easy wins

• Automation workflows

• Integrating 3rd-party

command-line tools

Why did we add the

FeatureReader and

FeatureWriter?

A Powerful Pair

Read data mid-

workspace.

Write data mid-

workspace.

FeatureReader Examples

• Read data within a boundary

• Read data within a user-drawn area

• Read back the data FME has

written in the same workspace

(est. 2011)

Demo: Read from a user-defined boundary

New: FeatureWriter

Do things AFTER the data is

written and in FME Workbench.

Before:

• Shutdown Python / TCL scripts

• Chain workspaces together with

FMEServerJobSubmitter or

WorkspaceRunner

Less Coding

More Workbench

Easy Wins!• Copy data after writing

• Send results to FTP

• Email an attachment

• Load into Dropbox

• What else?

Automation

Workflows• Quality checking

• Database validation

• FME Server Notification

• What else?

3rd-Party Integrations• Read, write, or

transform beyond what

FME already supports.

• Wrap a command-line

tool in a custom

transformer.

3rd-Party Integrations• LASTools

• Orfeo ToolBox

• ImageMagick

• What else?

Post-processing demo: Emailing a raster

Demo: Data validation in a single workflow

3rd-party tool demo: Calling LAStools

● The FeatureReader and FeatureWriter

mean concise FME Workspaces, and less

work for you.

● Maybe we won’t even need Readers and

Writers anymore?

More Information● knowledge.safe.com

○ articles and examples

● bit.ly/3rdparty○ 3rd party integrations examples

● safe.com/transformers○ FME transformer gallery

*More examples of 3rd-Party Tool Integrations

In Transforming Rasters and Point Clouds World Tour Presentation

Thank you!

Questions?