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
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
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
Contents:
Source Feature Type Editing,
TopologyBuilder: Assume Clean Data option,
FME Server: Batch Processing,
FME Server: Email Notifications,
New Format: Adobe Geospatial PDF.
This edition of the FME Evangelist celebrates the release of FME2009 by describing how and why to edit source schemas, demonstrating a neat new option for the TopologyBuilder, and discussing the role of FME Server in batch processing. Oh, we also have details of the new Adobe Geospatial PDF (2D) writer.
Continue Reading January 19th, 2009
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