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
This post explores a suggestion from an FME training course attendee on how to track assets using a combination of iPhone, Twitter, and GeoRSS. It’s simple and quite practical for use on a small scale.
Continue Reading August 23rd, 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
Performance tuning an FME workspace can be a process of trial and error; and it isn’t always obvious what to tweak and how.
There is one simple change you can make that often gives a performance boost, but few people are aware of the functionality, let alone the benefits it offers. So, to find out more, read on…
Continue Reading June 7th, 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
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