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Can I find out how to use FME to transfer data between programs I am using? To export? Import?

I'm trying to convert XYZ point cloud to DEM so I can generate a Minecraft world. After searching and reading "How to make Minecraft worlds" article I saw the Norway example (las2MinecraftFMEpediais workbench) by @dmitribagh similar to what I'm trying to implement, unless it is using classification attribute values (e.g. 2 for ground, or 5 for vegetation), while my XYZ point cloud doesn't have these attribute values.In the Norway example, the point cloud has another classification attribute values for water (9 or 18), while the one I have has no points for water or spaces under bridge for example. I'm attaching a picture of my dataset in the FME inspector. How could that XYZ be used to make a Minecraft world out of it? Appreciate any advice or suggestions. Thanks

Hi,Can anyone answer a LiDAR point class classification question? According to the ASPRS standard for point class classification, the following class relate to vegetation:3 – Low Vegetation 4 – Medium Vegetation 5 – High VegetationCan anyone tell me whether there are actual ‘standardised’ (above ground) height ranges associated/relating to each of the vegetation class? If so what at the numeric values? For example; 3 – Low Vegetation – 0.0m to 0.5m 4 – Medium Vegetation – 0.5m to 1.0m 5 – High Vegetation – 1.0m to >>mIf there are NOT any standard numeric height ranges; can anyone explain what the Low, Medium and High descriptions actually mean in reality? I have looked at various ASPRS documents but can not find any form of detailed explanation.ThanksRob

How can I I set the workspaceRunner parameter 'FME Workspace' to my FME server path containing uploaded workspaces?I have an attribute with the workspace name that gets set dynamically, so I know which workspace to call, but rather than set the path to a network location I would like to run workspaces that exist in the FME server environment.

Hi everybody ,Anybody knows why in the elements type IFMEMultiCurve doesn't apply the offset of the Y coordinate ???.I have a diagram with input V7 microstation and output V8 Microstation and I see that if I put a Offseter with a offset of 4.000.000 applyes the offset to all the elements except to the elements of type IFMEMultiCurve (Type 33 of microstation).Maybe another way to apply offset to elements ???Any idea ?? , thanks for the help !!

I'm trying to connect to an unversioned table that has archiving enabled. I'm using the Esri Geodatabase (ArcSDE Geodb) reader. I connect as the owner of the table, the same user that was used to enable archiving. In the table list i cannot see the table ending in _evw (the database view containing the archived information), only the feature class itself. Should I be able to see the _evw-table?I add this Archive Where clause: GDB_FROM_DATE > 20070101090000When trying to read the features, I get this error message: "Invalid archive where clause. The archive where clause must be in the format 'GDB_FROM_DATE|GDB_TO_DATE <logical operator> <date> [AND GDB_TO_DATE <logical operator> <date>]' and be space delimited."What am I doing wrong? Are there any other fields I should have filled in? Could the date format be wrong? There are no historical versions or historical markers in the database.

In the FME Server Web UI, the Help > Documentation link returns me with a "Sorry, Page Not Found" error -- what gives?!

I am trying time entry from a SQL table to Excel to be imported into our time entry software. I want to create one worksheet that contains all employee entries and then an individual worksheet for each employee in the same workbook. I can get it to do one or the other but not both at the same time. SO far I know if I define the sheet name - Time Entry - I can write all the data to one sheet. Or if I set the sheet name to - Employee Name - I get the individual sheets for each employee. I have tried coping the writer and defining the sheet name both ways but that doesn't work.

Hi allI've created a WMS service that streams GeoJSON as the response for the GetFeatureInfo operation. At first I was creating the JSON using the JsonTemplater connected to a Text File writer. When I tested the workspace the result displayed directly in the web browser. Problem was I had some formatting issues in the returned JSON that I'd have to deal with.I realized that if I switched to a GeoJSON writer the formatting would be handled for me. This works great but when I test via a web browser I get a file download instead of the a direct display of the returned data in the browser.I think it's caused by the Content-Disposition header in the request response.This is the response when using the Text File writer:And this is the response when using the GeoJSON writer:Is there any way to remove the Content-Disposition header when streaming from a GeoJSON writer?Update:I've used the JSONTemplater to create a return JSON with the same structure as the GeoJSON would hav

Hi,I have a hundred of mapinfo files that I would like to convert to shapefile.  It is obvious to write a workspace that works for one file but it not obvious for me to write a batch (MSDOS) that will convert all the mapinfo files.I tried to riun my workspace in a batch script but it is not working when I'm changing the SourceDataset_MITAB to another mapinfo file."C:\Program Files\FME\fme.exe" Y:\tmp\siurs\script\mitab2shape.fmw --SourceDataset_MITAB C:\Users\xkaptar\Documents\SIURS\projet\mapinfo\Ville.tab --DestDataset_SHAPE C:\Users\xkaptar\Documents\SIURS\projet\shapefileWhat I want is to have an input file <filename.tab> and the output should be <filename.shp>  (with the other extensions <filename.shx>, <filename.dbx>, ...).Thanks 

I am trying to get the last 6 or 7 characters from an attribute called [event_name], and am using the built-in Open Text Editor on the AttributeManager transformer to extract this substring. But it comes out like this:@ReplaceString(@Substring(@Value(event_name),@FindRegEx(@Value(event_name),M[1-9]),@StringLength(@Value(event_name))-@FindRegEx(@Value(event_name),M[1-9])),-,_)which I think looks horrible and is difficult to understand. Is there a way I could break this down into multiple lines with local variables, like you do in a Python startup script?

Hello,  Feature Type RunwayTimeSlice (Runway Class (http://webprisme.cfmu.eurocontrol.int/aixmwiki_public/bin/view/AIXM/Class_Runway" target="_blank">https://extranet.eurocontrol.int/http://webprisme.cfmu.eurocontrol.int/aixmwiki_public/bin/view/AIXM/Class_Runway)) has an Attribute annotation{}. But it doesn't find its way into my XML File. ;) I tried it the same way as shown in the AIXM Demo for responsibleOrganisation (EU Airports Demo (https://knowledge.safe.com/articles/How_To/AIXM)), but it doesn't work. What am I doing wrong?   Shouldn't this one produce something like this?:  <aixm:annotation>  <aixm:Note gml:id="uuid.f19ffb15-d86b-4336-a8e2-04f3af652350">  <aixm:purpose>REMARK</aixm:purpose>  </aixm:Note> </aixm:annotation>  Help is appreciated :) Melanie

Dear FME-Users, I’d like to transform data from raster to vector (e.g. shapefile) and add attributes. The transformer “RasterToPolygonCoercer” works, but the second one “AttributeCreator” doesn’t add the desired attribute. I’ve already verified the output-shapefile in ArcMap. The second step includes to read and classify attribute-data from raster, classify them by breakpoint and add them to the new attribute.  Maybe someone of the community here have ideas and can help me.  Thank you so much. :)  Best regards!

I want you to show how to convert a Mapinfo workspace into a AutoCAD DWG file, step by step process.

Hi,I've trawled the knowledge center and have not found a topic or question which covers this, so hopefully I'm not repeating a previous post..I'm trying to merge two MapInfo TAB files (each with the same structure), but coming from different 'Directory and File Pathnames' readers. Let's call the files A and B. File A is the master layer and file B contains features that I want to insert into File A. If these files were read in as MapInfo TAB readers, it would be simple to append the two together. However, as the writer has to be dynamic and the readers are Directory and File Pathnames I cannot do this easily.I have got to a point where the features from File B are being inserted into File A (and writing out in the correct structure) - using FeatureReaders and FeatureMergers. However, the attributes aren't coming through from File B,only the geometry is apparent in the resulting file that is written. There are no attributes present except for the ones coming

Hello,   I am new to FME, recently started to work on FME Desktop 2014. I am looking to convert any format to CSV. My requirement is to deposite output CSV to same input folder.  e.g. If user selects c:\\temp\\test.shp then test.csv should be written to c:\\temp\\folder.  Currently I am able to convert the file but I am not able to set output path same as input path.  I am not sure how to achieve this.Any pointers in the right direction will be appreciated.  Regards, john

Hi, I am performing a CAD reprojection in FME and it has messed up my the text layers. I am reading and writing the data dynamically. Any ideas of what might cause the text size to blow up? Any parameters to tweak?Thank so much for the help

Hi All,I have a text file with a variable quantity of lines, separated by an empty line. The lines adjacent to one another need to be grouped together and then concatenated. So for example:Test1Test2Test3---testy1testy2---test---(where the hyphens are the blank lines, I can't format this page with return lines it seems)Would need to become:Test1 Test2 Test3testy1 testy2testI've tried to do this a couple of ways so far, and variables seemed to be the right choice initially but now I'm not so sure. As I also have a format attribute on each line that contains the text_line_length, I was trying to use this as the delimiter when it was = to 0. It's interesting because the logic is a bit like using the PointConnector to create line geometries and what I need is to use the text_line_length as the 'connection break attribute'. Anyway, that's a digression. Does anyone have any simple tricks I could deploy to do this?Thanks, Dave

Hi,I am trying to connect to our Oracle 11g Spatial Data using FME however the Oracle Spatial Object reader returns the following when trying to retrieve a list of tables:"Failed to retrieve feature types"I know there are spatial tables present as I can view the data in Arcmap, the log file simply states:"universalreader -- readschema resulted in 0 schema features being returned."Strangely if I read in a shapefile and output this as an Oracle Spatial Table to the same database this then shows and returns the correct spatial data, however I then receive the error below trying to use this in Arcmap:"Error opening feature classLayer not foundLayer not found"This is my first post so apologies if I have missed off any crucial information, thanks in advance for any help on this.Thanks,Charlie

I have a column given to me in a spreadsheet which looks like that:What I need is to get all the references out, the ones in square brackets, to provide with the full list to a user:An then get a full list of all references, as follows:Does anyone have an idea of how I can do this using FME?

If this is the case, then writing 3D coordinates would be very interesting in future releases given the 3D developments in the ESRI JS API 4.x.

Hi,i have some pdf docs residing in Folders. From GoogleEarth I would like to open them by clicking on a hyperlink. Some years back I managed to do that, unfortunately I do not remenber very well how.What I remember is to use the a-tag and the href attribute.So far I did the following:As a result I see the "Link to pdf" appearing as a blue underlined hyperlink. But opening the document fails.I also tried to prefix the "D:xxx" with file://D:xx but it also did not work. The resulting kml file and the pdf folfer with the documents do not reside in the same folder.Any ideas?

Hi,I want to trigger a workspace using a python script and with that, also want to set the reader dynamically as a parameter. I did look at a few posts previously on this subject like using the workspace runner or the Creator but wasn't sure if that would match my requirement.My requirement is that - I have a set of workbenches that already have a Reader transformer added but I want to override those readers through Python script and provide dataset paths through python script.It would be great help if I am advised whether I am trying this the wrong way and if I should be getting rid of the Readers from all my fmw files and take some other method that would allow me to provide the path in a way that the workbench could be triggered just by a python script and there would be no need to open the fmw files in FME Desktop

Hey all, Quick question. Does anyone know the difference between the free google geocoder and using an enterprise API key within this transformer? I thought there was a limit on the number of addresses you could geocode per day on the free version, but I ran 5,000 through multiple times. If the free version within FME is the same as the enterprise api my company pays for I could tell them to cancel our subscription. Does anyone have any thoughts on this? Is the enterprise API more accurate? Thanks again! Ethan

Hello,   I have a workspace that extracts gps data from geotagged photos. In order to do this fme has to read in each file. I just want to create points with a link to the photo, so I remove the geometry straight away.  The problem is that the workspace takes a long time to run, reading hunrdreds of  jpegs.  Is there a way just to read the exif metadata somehow to speed things up?  Thanks,   Owen