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
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
Here’s a reminder for you to pop out and buy a card to congratulate Don and Dale on the arrival of their new offspring: FME2010. As always, the parents are very proud - though slightly exhausted - and confident this new born will be a hit with all. In fact, I’m so smitten I’ve created a top-ten list of my favourite things about the new release.
Continue Reading January 12th, 2010
This FME Evangelist is the second of a two part review of the FME Server-hosted FMEeopardy! contest from the recent FME User Conference; here we cover in detail how the Answer Submission part of the project works, how to send published parameters to FME Server workspaces and how to stream HTML output back to the web browser. Finally we’ll look at what Best Practice issues I learned the hard way!
Continue Reading July 8th, 2009
This FME Evangelist presents part one of a review of the FME Server-hosted FMEeopardy! contest from the recent FME User Conference; here we cover the software requirements and setup, and the general sequence of play.
Continue Reading July 6th, 2009
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