The FME Evangelist

FME2011 Use Case: Numeric Raster Surfaces

I created this workspace to take a numeric raster (other than a DEM) and create a textured surface out of it, and I think the results are quite impressive. It shows US rainfall patterns in a 3D PDF file.

The story here is of a simple process - only two operational transformers - but a whole host of support transformers having to be used to get the data into the correct form.

Continue Reading March 18th, 2011

Appearances can be Deceiving

This is a brief post about appearances (textures and colours) and how they can be applied to 3D surfaces within FME Workbench.

Continue Reading April 6th, 2010

Raster and Collada: A City Model View of the World

This post is on the subject of city models and how to bring together CAD, GIS, BIM, DEM, raster and other types of spatial data to create a single model. This example includes 3D buildings, DEM draping, rasterization, reprojection, and writing out to PDF - and all in just 13 transformers!

Continue Reading November 13th, 2009

Keeping Up Appearances

This post is a quick interlude from schema mapping, and a short item about writing raster features to PDF using surfaces and appearances.

Continue Reading October 7th, 2009