Posts filed under 'GIS'

FME 2011 Sneak Peak: PostGIS

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

FME and Data Staging

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

Data Restructuring Tips

This post provides tips and tricks to illustrate how to restructure (or reorganize) spatial data in FME. It’s straight from our basic FME training course, and good information for any new user.

Continue Reading April 27th, 2010

FME2010 Use Case: FME and Cloud Storage

Whether or not you use the term ‘cloud’, online data storage is now a common phenomenon; from an FTP site, through Google docs, to services such as Amazon S3. This post describes how accessing online data can be done with FME, using Amazon S3 as an example.

Continue Reading April 21st, 2010

A Spotters Guide to Textured Formats in FME

A very short post about which formats in FME currently support the reading and writing of 3D textures and appearances.

Continue Reading April 19th, 2010

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