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Using readers and writers to extract and load data.

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One step dwg symbolising for pdf (or other output)

Howdy, Is it possible to grab points from a miscellaneous database, associate them with a dwg block (ie symbol, by way of a template file) and then effectively expand those blocks into entities prior to rendering out to a pdf, or even as a raster. It's an easy enough exercise to do it in two steps using an intermediate dwg file but I can't see a way to do it in one. Any assistance would be appreciated.

sigtillSupporter

Feature request: Restart FMEServer-service from admin-interface

It would be very handy to have a restart fmeserver-services including attached databases as a button in the admin-interface of FMEServer. Instead of logging in to the server and doing it "manually" from there - as this computer might be "locked away" between firewalls and computers. Similar to the "Restart router" that most internet-routers have in their admin-userface.

MapInfo polygon order

Hi, I have created a workbench to translate British OS Mastermap from gml to .tab which works fine and I have multiple MapInfo. Tab outputs. I also have a combined topography. tab which has all the features present but some building features are above land features and vice versa I have tried sorting prior to and after testing and styling but I have not been able to place all building feature above land features, fairly new to FME so any suggestions would be greatly received. Thanks in advance M

geodatabase feature class alias

I'm reading a file geodatabase and need to grab the feature class alias. I don't see any way of doing this?

geolassiContributor

Ignore Failed Readers when reading a Zip file with FME 2013 b13261

Hi! I'm trying to set up a workspace with three Readers: TAB, MIF/MID and Shape. I've published a parameter, which contains the path to a zip file. The zip file could contain either TAB, MIF/MID or Shape files. If the zip file has only Shape files, the TAB Reader fails and gives an error. I would like FME to ignore failing readers. Setting up the parameter Ignore Failed Readers to Yes doesn't seem to have an effect. BR, Lassi

Performance Issue is SDE geodatabase

Hi, I am using ARCSDE geodatabase as inputs to the workbench, from the input tables I need to extract the coordinates(x,y) values for point features and for linear linear feature i need to extract every vertex id's of the element(line segment) along with x, y coordinates of each vertex and "from junction element id" & "to junction element id" of the element. To extract the geometry information FME takes lot of time. Time consumption is the major hurdle in this project. It is the chalenging issue to succed in our project. Please help us that how to increase performance. Thanks in Advance, Seshu

Why do file geodatabase and SDE readers produce different fme_geometry types?

I have one very simple workbench that I am running against both SDE (9.3) and FGDB (10.0) sources. I noticed two different fme_geometry values for same type of objects. For the first one, i.e SDE 9.3, I have fme_geometry=fme_donut, but for the same features in FGDB 10.0 I have fme_geometry=fme_aggregate. Is this a "problem" of converting ESRI data from 9.3 to 10.0 or how FME interprets geometry? Because in case of fme_aggregate, FME is doing "additional" job of constructing donuts again: Calculating inside points Determining uppermost containment Constructing donuts from xxx points (Visible in log window)

PostGIS writer multipolygon issue

Hi, I have an existing multipolygon PostGIS table. The entry in the geometry_columns is multipolygon and there are constraints on the table (2d, multipolygon and SRS). 1. When trying to write some features from a shapefile reader, only the single part polygons are written to the table. The multipart polygons get following warning: Geometry might not be representable in requested form The allowed geometries parameter in the writer is set to "postgis_multipolygon". 2. In QGIS I can open the table and view the single part polygons that are written to the table, but the geometry column of the features is empty. Found some similar topics in the FME talk but these are not really solving my problem. Any ideas? Thx, Rob

Change Detector with Personal Geodatabase

I am using the Change Detector to compare changes between a feature class in SDE and a feature class in a personal geodatabase. I am running into a problem with the output from the Change Detector transformer when using the personal geodatabase feature class. I have tried to run this transformer comparing an SDE feature class with a shapefile and the output is what I would have expected. With the personal geodatabase feature class however I receive incorrect results. I am only comparing geometry changes and ignoring changes to attributes at the moment. If anyone could provide any guidance on this matter, then I would really appreciate it. Thank you!

Cannot access tables to Oracle DB with Reader. But can connect with Transformer OracleQuerier

Hello As the title says I cannot access the tables in the oracle Spatial DB (10.2.0.4.0) with the add Reader command. The strange thing is, that with the transformer "OracleQuerier" I have access to the tables in the DB. I suspect it is because with the transformer, i can choose which version of Oracle (9i/10g/11) i have. With the reader I cannot. Do you have any ideas? Do you need more information about my specs? I use FME 2011 SP4 on WIN32 The connection parameters are correct as i can get a connection to the Oracle DB with SQL Manager, ArcMAP (with add sql layer) and AutoCAD MAP. And as I mentioned with the OracleQuerier as well. Excuse my english Regards Bernard

Google Fusion Tables API is changing and this will affect FME Google Fusion readers & writers

Google has announced that the Google Fusion Tables SQL API is being deprecated and replaced by the Google Fusion Tables API v1.0. This will occur on or around 14 January 2013. The main API change is the move to OAuth 2.0 This means that existing FME Google Fusion readers & writers will not be able to access your Google Fusion tables. All new FME 2013 Versions (after build 13261) will support the new OAuth 2.0 authorisation. If you have problems connecting to your Google Fusion tables please contact Safe support

Hi there I have looked at the FME workbench help for the postgis writer and in the old FME talk group, but haven't found a clear answer to my issue... How do i define the following using the postgis writer in FME Workbench 2012 SP3: - Database name - Schema name - Table name - Encoding The same question when using fanout by attribute.

OSM file to ArcGIS File GeoDB

Hi All, I have some problems when I try to convert OSM file to ArcGIS FileGeoDB. These problems are mainly due to invalid or duplicate field name in the OSM file. When I convert the same OSM file to Shape File everything is fine. So my question is when Shape File export can find and remove that kind of errors why FileGeoDB (API /Arc Object) export cannot find and fix that kind of errors in the field name? Can someone explain me a way to automatically find/fix these problems, rather than run the workbench until it fails and then fix them manually? Is there something available in FME like ValidateFieldName in ArcGIS? I am using FME 2012 64bit on Windowx 7 64bit.

rknightContributor

Using XMLUpdater to change waypoint names in .GPX file

Is XMLUpdater the best transformer to edit multiple waypoints in a .GPX file. I need to change hundreds of unique waypoint names in a .GPX file to a few names based on a alpha character in the those original way point names. For example: <name>002C34</name> needs to become <name>C</name> or <name>003B33</name> become <name>B</name>

dos_gisContributor

points from coords in a text file

Hi, I’m trying to generate points from a text file, using Lat & Long values. StringSearcher seems to be the right transformer but I’m having trouble figuring out the proper expression to use. Any help would be appreciated. The contents of the text file: From: bcticket@telus.net Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2013 12:58 PM To: GIS Subject: Request 2013021114 01/09/13 12:57:20 BC ONE CALL NOTICE OF INTENT TO EXCAVATE REASON CODE: ROUTINE LOCATE Ticket No: 2013021114 Sending to:SQUISH01 Code:SQUISH01 Sequence:0002 Original Call Date: 01/09/2013 Time: 12:53:02 Op: 442 Transmit Date: 01/09/2013 Time: 12:57:20 Op: 442 Work To Begin Date: 01/14/2013 Time: 12:53:00 Company :HOMEOWNER Contact Name:Test Contact Phone:(111)111-1111 Cell Phone:

I have a large NITF image (grey scale, with palette). In the course of a number of transofmrations (reprojection, etc.) it gets converted to an RGBA (the palette is resolved). Now I want to save it as a PNG. I do not need all the RGB bands. I see that PNGRASTER has a grey scale, and also a pallette option. Is there a transform to shrink the RGBA to a Grey Scale plus Alpha PNG image (and pallette might also be nice). The goal is to get the disk size smaller. Just compressing at level 6 is resulting in a 400% explosion from the original NITF.

Can't see my Oracle columns

I want to be able to see my Oracle columns in Workbench. When I connect a shape reader to a transformer, I can see the source columns. But I can't see the Oracle columns the same way. I could use the Attribute Connections window, but I'd like to use the visual tools.

FME Server 2012 with Smallworld 4.2/ 422 translator - dll missing?

We are currently onsite doing a translation. Smallworld 4.2 (with 422 translators) with FME SERVER 2012 The translation uses FME.exe and it works with FME Desktop 2012, we tested the same with FME SERVER 2011. But this doesnt work with FME Server 2012. Is there some special setup? we didnt find any sworldswaf*.dll in FME Server directory. we renamed the Fmf file. This is urgent.

Write Microstation DGN Priority

Hi, is there any way to write the DGN Priority using FME? Regards, Hendrik

Setting output file name for .xyz to las translation

Hello. I have several hundred .xyz files that I want to translate to las/laz files. Using a reader-writer (Point Cloud XYZ- LAS) does the job: Inputs are something like 100903_120345.xyz, 100903_120736.xyz but the output files have names like POINTCLOUDXYZ.las, POINTCLOUDXYZ_1.las and so on What I would like to happen is for the output files to inherit the base name of the input so that the outputs would be named 100903_120345.las, 100903_120736.las etc. I'm very new to FME so apoligies for this simple question. Thanks Justin.

Creating a .prj file with the Shape writer

Does anyone know the correct way to ensure a shapefile is always created with its accompanying .prj file during the ESRI Shape writer process? For the type of translations I'm doing, I'd ideally like to have FME output the same projection file as the input for shape-to-shape conversion, i.e. create .prj files dynamically based on the input files, not from a hard-coded script parameter. I searched for but couldn't find any documentation about how/if a .prj file is created when writing to Shape. From mapping file translations, sometimes this projection file is created alongside the core shapefile components and sometimes not. Next week I am going to test a hunch that setting the COORDINATE_SYSTEM directive (or equivalent workbench parameter) for the writer allows FME to output a .prj file, while having it not set results in no projection file.

Read Autodesk AutoCAD Map 3D Object Data from a dxf file

Hi, I'm having trouble to read data from a dxf file. This file has been built with autocad map 2012. It has one table associated to one layer feature types. It does'nt seem to be simple xdata because I can't read it by just using an "attribute exposer". I also tried to add my source data as "Autodesk AutoCAD Map 3D Object Data" but I stil can't read it. What do I need to do? Thanks for your help. Charlotte

Add xdata to an existing DWG file

Hi, I have - 16 dwg that are our original workfiles without xdata - a DXF file which is the result of a FME treatment and which contains xdata I created ID for several layers and I need to retreive this IDs so when we will update our workfiles, and I will pass them into my treatment to make a new DXF file, my IDs for existing features won't change. I have to retreive the xdata "ACCESS1_ID" from the DXF to put it, as XDATA in my orginal files (DWG). I have a way to merge correctly the DXF with the original files thanks to a block attribute I have kept as a xdata in the DXF. But I don't manage to obtain a file which would be exactly the same as my workfiles (DWG) with adding xdata in it. Thank you for your help. Charlotte

Selecting an existing AOI from an ESRI file geodatabase as a source parameter.

How can I publish a feature class in an ESRI file geodatabase as a source parameter rather than just the file geodatabase to use as an AOI? I am using FME to create contours from DTED using an existing AOI as my CLIP. However the exisiting AOI will not always come from the same feature class or even database. So I need the user to be able to select both the source database and/or feature class within it.

GeoTIFF for GeoServer

I want to create an inner tiled GeoTiff with internal Overlays for use with GeoServer. I know FME can do the inner tiling, but can it do the internal overlays too and if so, how? Thanks

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