With the FOSS4G “conference” (for Open Source Geospatial Software) about to start in Barcelona, Spain, it seemed a good time to open my FME2011 coverage with an item about what updates and enhancements we’ve made specifically for PostGIS in our upcoming release.
As it turns out, there are rather a lot.
Continue Reading September 2nd, 2010
When I describe a dynamic FME workspace I often say that “it lets you write data, even when you don’t know what the incoming layers or attributes will be”.
This perhaps causes more confusion than understanding, so, in order to clarify that statement, this post documents a recent workspace I created for a data translation project.
Continue Reading June 21st, 2010
If you look into ETL techniques you’ll find that one technique used to make for a more efficient process is called Staging. This post examines what staging is, how you might use it with spatial data, and what FME tools exist to carry out such techniques.
Continue Reading May 14th, 2010
Dynamic and Generic are two aspects of FME functionality, alike in purpose but still distinct features in their own right. To put it succinctly, Dynamic ≠ Generic. So this post explains the differences (and similarities) and covers the huge improvements made for multipurpose workspaces in FME2010.
Continue Reading February 2nd, 2010
This short post is about what to do when FME doesn’t recognize your coordinate system - and highlights a very little known transformer: the CoordinateSystemDescriptionConverter.
Continue Reading November 18th, 2009
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