Happy “FME Release Day”. Today is the day we release the newest version of FME; FME2012.
Probably the largest change is in how we construct and use attributes inside a workspace. There are some updates that will have a huge benefit for workspace authors, and this post details a few of these.
Continue Reading January 18th, 2012
This post is about a new parameter in the File Geodatabase writer in FME, which lets you take an ArcGIS XML Workspace Document (what I would call a template) and create a new Geodatabase from that. It’s the first of what I hope will be many video Evangelist podcasts. Enjoy.
Continue Reading January 12th, 2012
If you’ve installed FME2012, or listen in to the @FMEEvangelist on Twitter, you’ll be aware that some transformers in 2012 have a new option: one to run the transformation as multiple processes.
And, although you might not realize it, this is a seismic shift in thinking, not just for the new capabilities, but for FME as a whole.
Why is that? Well, read on…
Continue Reading December 22nd, 2011
For FME Server users, security tends to be one of the big ones; a topic every administrator is interested in. And FME 2012 delivers a bunch of new security functionality that is both effective and flexible. So this post highlights three security improvements for FME Server 2012.
Continue Reading December 15th, 2011
This post discusses the example of integrating FME with a mapping toolkit called Mapnik.
Mapnik is one of our favourite toolkits at Safe Software and both Dale and I have wanted to try an integration for a long time. So, needing a good Python example I took the plunge.
But hopefully this post will show not just how FME can interface with Mapnik, but also demonstrate some of the new functionality in 2012 and how easy it can be to use Python within FME.
Continue Reading December 5th, 2011
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