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pravallika
asked in Data
Importing data from fme to smallworld

Hi, I am importing the shapefile from fme to smallworld,  In my shape file i have 169 records but only 10 records are importing. In this process i am getting the error  ::  Error :Primitive a polygon.all_intersections failed status 1376267(0,21,11) Too many intersections  How can i resolve this problem please help me and suggest me the solution as early as possible. Thanks in advance.

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david_r
Influencer
11 years ago
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sarah
asked in Transformers
Extruding a Circle

I need to extrude a cicle feature to a given depth but the extrude transformer does not appear to work on an ellipse feature. Is there another way to tackle extruding this feature using FME?

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sigtill
Contributor
11 years ago
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flix
asked in Transformers
Python & global Variable

Hi all  I use a PythonCaller to compare the output from some transformers with a textfile. Depending on the results I would like to set a global variable or modify a published parameter. In the further workflow I would like to use the parameter to determine if the features should be written out or not. As a workaround I used a VaraibleSetter and VariableRetriever to set a global variable which I can use in a Tester. It yould be more elegant to set and expose the global variable or modify a published parameter within the python Caller.  Is it possible to change the value of a published parameter within a PythonCaller? If I try to fo modify the published parameter with FME_MacroValues['NameOfPublishedParameter'] = "Yes", it doesn't affect the value. The default vlaue will be used. Is it possible to set and expose a glaobal variable (function or factory: @GlobalVariable) analog to the VariableSetter/VariableRetriever combo? Thanks for any advice    felix

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11 years ago
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philsc
asked in Data
Nested folders and fanout with KML

Hi !  Is there a way I can get my fanout result nested in a subdirectory in a KML/KMZ file ? Should be quite simple, but I just can't make it work.  I have a MapInfo table with schools which I would like to separate in type of schools and by region. Type of schools, language and regions are held in columns in the MI table.  Here is a sample of what I'm trying to achieve :  Schools (document name) - Elementary (1st order subdirectory) - English (2nd order subdir) - Region 1 (3nd order subdir - that's where my fanout should be) - Region 2 - ... - French (2nd order subdir)  - Region 1 (3nd order subdir - that's where my fanout should be) - Region 2 - ...  Secondary - English (2nd order subdir) - Region 1 (3nd order subdir - that's where my fanout should be) - Region 2 - ... - French (2nd order subdir) - Region 1 (3nd order subdir - that's where my fanout should be)  - Region 2  - ... University  ...   Every

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davideagle
Contributor
11 years ago
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jr
asked in Transformers
Global Temporary Table that Contains ST_GEOMETRY

Good evening.  I have created the below global temporary table on our development schema, and within the FME workbench, I am trying to create an ARCSde reader that will use this table.     CREATE GLOBAL TEMPORARY TABLE myglobal(   IGEOM              ST_GEOMETRY,   HU100                   NUMBER,   POP100                  NUMBER,   POPPEP                  NUMBER ) ON COMMIT PRESERVE ROWS;  When I attempt to create the reader, I receive the below error message:   An error occurred while attempting to open the table, feature class or relationship class 'myglobal'. The error number from ArcObjects is: '-2147155648'. The error message from ArcObjects is: {Abstract Data Types not supported [myglobal][STATE_ID = 24]}    I tried creating the table with the ST_GEOMETRY column and then creating a reader to access the table within the FME workbench and there were no issues.  Is there something special I need to do to work with ST_GEOMETRY?  I'm encountering a lot of issues us

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11 years ago
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yannick__it_ins
asked in Transformers
Change "My documents\\FME" default path directory folder (move to other location)

Hello and sorry if the question has already been asked and resolved, I may not have find the right keywords to find it...    Due to quota on the users's folders "My Documents" (because network stored), we need to change the default path "FME" when installing FME DESKTOP 2013, in order to avoid creating the empty folders which will fill themselves later : - %UserProfile%\\documents\\FME\\CoordinateSyste... - %UserProfile%\\documents\\FME\\Csmap Tansform.... - %UserProfile%\\documents\\FME\\Formats - %UserProfile%\\documents\\FME\\Templates - %UserProfile%\\documents\\FME\\Themes - %UserProfile%\\documents\\FME\\Transform...       I found tips - to change the temp folder (%FME_TMP%), - to change the workspace folder (%FME_MF_DIR%, and options) - to add some ressource folders (%FME_SHARED_RESOURCE_DIR%)    but nothing to change the location of the default main folder "FME"...    Do you think that possible ?    thank you in adv

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11 years ago
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sarah
asked in Data
Orient and angle ellipse feature in 3D space

I am trying to create ellipse features that are perpendicular to our drill hole trace (line feature). I have the centroid x, y, and z coordinates, the azimuth and dip data for each ellipse.  I've only gotten to the point of creating the ellipsoid at the correct location but cannot seem to orient or rotate them accordingly.  Does anyone have any advice?  Thanks in advance.   

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11 years ago
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kam
asked in Transformers
Comparing Strings and returning unmatched characters?

Hi , I hope this is a simple query.    I have a dataset which has a field that contains the organisation name and address seperated by spaces (see example)   I also have a gazetteer that should match the address in the first dataset without organisation name.    I want to be able to compare the two strings and extract the organisation name into a new field.     Example:    Dataset 1: Kam's Made Up Org 15 Test Street Testingham TE23 2TE    Dataset 2: 15 Test Street Testingham TE23 2TE    Desirable new field: Kam's Made Up Org    p.s. Both datasets have a unique identifier also to match them together.    Regards,   

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11 years ago
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jr
asked in Authoring
ArcSDE Reader, Published Parameters and the WHERE Clause

Good afternoon.   I need to pass in as a published parameter the WHERE clause to the ArcSDE Geodatabase reader.  I have created a published parameter named SQL and when creating the ArcSDE Geodatabase reader I attempt to use the parameter in this manner:  WHERE Clause: $(SQL)  However, attempting to do so causes the below error: Undefined macro `SQL' dereferenced in file `C:\\DOCUME~1\\rolan002\\LOCALS~1\\Temp\\FME_1362421243497_6256' Program Terminating Is it possible in FME to use a published parameter with the ArcSDE Geodatabase reader?  Also, is it possible to pass in the SELECT and FROM clauses to the reader, too?  (I would need to do this because my statements are coming from a web page and are highly dynamic; if I can't do this, I could live with just passing in the WHERE clause and having a slew of workspaces to handle the possible user inputs from the form).  Thanks much.  Joe  

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J
11 years ago
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desert
asked in Data
Replacing point-features with an Autodesk 3DS-file

Hello again,  anyone know a quick solution for displaying an Autodesk 3DS-model of a tree for each point in an ESRI-point-shape? I will eventually merge it with a DEM an Orthophoto and 3D-buildings and write a 3d-PDF.  Thanks for your considerations Patrick

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M
11 years ago
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berniek
asked in Transformers
Rotator Unexpected Results

I have created a workspace that reads a georeferenced autocad drawing and writes to sql server.  As part of my workspace I include a Rotator that alters the orientation of all drawing features for page layout purposes.  The resulting coordinates are not important as long as they fall within the coordinate system and therefore remain valid for Geoserver's gridset.  I chose the center of the drawing as the X,Y axis around which to perform the rotation.  When I view the result of the workspace, I have to zoom way, way in in order to find the rotated drawing features. Why is the rotator changing the drawing scale?

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mark2atsafe
Safer
11 years ago
fmelizard
Contributor
fmelizardContributor
asked in Data
Read coordinates from Microstation V8 file

I have a set of microsation v8 files.  The files have a coordinate system attached to them.  When I use FME to read in and output file to a different format (such as shape files), the readouts now show that everything has been shrunk to within fractions of a seconds of the origins of the file, instead of being in their true geographic location.  Is there anyway to get FME to correctly read the coordinates so my output data is in the correct location?

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sigtill
Contributor
11 years ago
samisnunu
Contributor
samisnunuContributor
asked in Transformers
How can I generate raster footprint?

Hi,    I have several tiles of rasters that I would like to generate polygon (footprint) of each of these images.     What propper transformers do I need to add to my workbench.?   Thanks,  Sami

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samisnunu
Contributor
11 years ago
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travellingmax
asked in Data
Writing decent SOSI-files, with polygins?

I have a set of roads, where I have made the areas for road cover, and coded it with road-spesific metadata.  So far so good - I can deal with manipulation.  But I cannot properly write it without getting a metric ton of duplicate lines.  I have run the data trough a topologybuilder before exportting, but to no avail.   I used a different SOSI writer before (and guess I am forced to learn some of this stuff all over again) but want to cut some corners by asking: Does anyone have experience in writing to a SOSI-file that include polygons/areas?

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sigtill
Contributor
11 years ago
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azeisinger
asked in Authoring
Iterating a workspace over feature types

I have recently had occasion to need to iterate my workspaces; that is, to run them multiple times on varying inputs.  When I need to do this on a group of files, I can pretty easily write a shell script to launch the workspace with a different input and output dataset for each of the input files.  However, I am now trying to extend this method to iterate over the feature types (in this case, Microstation .dgn levels) within a single file.  I can't seem to figure out a way to implement this, though.  I need to publish a parameter that controls which level is processed.  However, I can't seem to do that.  I can't create a reader for a single feature type and publish the parameter that picks which one (it is greyed out), and I can't read the whole file and filter it, because I can't seem to link the actual filter variables to a published parameter.  There is probably a way to do this, probably not even using shell scripts, but I can't figure out what it is.  Any i

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sigtill
Contributor
11 years ago
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scott_c
asked in Transformers
Geometry error from GE Smallworld to ArcSDE that stops the translation

Hi - I have been getting errors with a translation from GE Smallworld (4.2) to ArcSDE (9.3.1) that is exporting out polygon features. I would like to understand why these errors are not just logged so that the translation can continue. I have set the Workbench Writer Parameter "Ignore Failed Features" to Yes for the SDE database, but it still fails. I have tried a few different transformers (self-intersector, geometry validator, etc.) to try and either fix the geometry or at the very least, remove it from the list of features to be exported to try and keep the process going. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to either trap this error so that it can continue or possibly even fix the geometry so that it can be exported? Below is a partial section of the log showing the fatal error. I am using FME 2011 SP3, Build 6529. Any suggestions would be most appreciated. Thanks, Scott Cifelli IBM Global Services, National Grid Account stcifell@us.ibm.com scott.cife

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david_r
Influencer
11 years ago
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jack
asked in Transformers
Points Distances from a Route

How can I calculate the closest distance from a point to a route?  For example, distances of houses from a tornado path (equivalent to ESRI's Near function). Thanks ahead for any guidance.

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david_r
Influencer
11 years ago
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banffgis
asked in Transformers
how do I load spatial data to OGDI for our open data catalogue?

Hi everyone,  I'm successful when loading CSV data to OGDI to populate our open data catalogue, but I can't get spatial data to load.  I get an error "The property value is larger than allowed by the Table Service." when trying to load our town boundary.  I know I'm doing something wrong, could someone talk with me about how to load spatial data to OGDI?  I've trying to simply read a boundary feature class and write directly to the OGDI writer, specifying "ogdi_area" as a constant value for the ogdi_type attribute.  But no difference.    Thanks  Steve

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fmelizard
Contributor
11 years ago
aguan
Contributor
aguanContributor
asked in Transformers
Why the PythonCall local polyconic reproject on LL27 gives incorrect results, but WGS84 give correct ones

I have a pythoncaller that does a local polyconic reprojection. The orgin point  is (sur_long, sur_lat,z) = (-87.9960175,28.6407318,0.0) and the point to be reprojected to (lat,long,z)  is (xoffset,yoffset,zoffset) = (0.0,0.0,0.0).  Here is the pythoncaller code:  class myPythonFactory(object):     def __init__(self):         self.count_features = 0         self.logger = pyfme.FMELogfile()             def input(self,feature):         uwi = str(feature.getAttribute('WELL_ID'))         surf_lat = float(feature.getAttribute('SURF_LAT'))         surf_long = float(feature.getAttribute('SURF_LONG'))         x_offset = float(feature.getAttribute('XOFFSET'))         y_offset = float(feature.getAttribute('YOFFSET'))         z_depth = float(feature.getAttribute('TVD'))                    #myCSMan = pyfme.FMECoordSysManager() defined in startup python         fmeParams['PARM1'] = str(surf_long)         fmeParams['ORG_LAT'] = str(surf

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aguan
Contributor
11 years ago
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kwgis
asked in Data
Failed to write curved geometry to SDE Geodatabase on Oracle

I'm trying to import some MicroStation DGN data into an SDE Geodatabase (Oracle).    My workflow is built specifically to preserve curved geometries, and when I write to a File Geodatabase, these are intact. However when I write to an SDE Geodatabse these are stroked into straight line segments.    Looking at the logs I get the following warnings: WARN  |Required columns 'GLOBAL_ID, OBJECTID, ' not specified for predefined table 'GISOWNER.TEST'.  Using Definition from Database  WARN  |DEF line for the table 'GISOWNER.TEST' not fully specified. As a result, existing table definitions will be used  WARN  |Existing SDE table 'GISOWNER.TEST' allows the following shapes: SDE_NIL SDE_LINE SDE_SIMPLE_LINE SDE_MULTIPART . Shapes specified in mapping file for table allows: . Defined shape types don't match.  WARN  |Spatial column name for existing table 'GISOWNER.TEST' is 'SHAPE' while value specified in mapping file is ''. Usi

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K
11 years ago
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saifalsaifi
asked in Data
From GIS to Wavefront obj via FME

hello everyone    I don't have good experience with FME,  but i need to use it in my Master thesis project.    The thing is i am developing an iPad App, one of the most important parts in this App is to send the GPS latitude, longitude to the GIS server (via FME) then get the GIS data related to that GPS location in a Wavefront obj file (in 3D) (ALSO  via  FME).   So could you please provide me with any pointers to start. Any tutorials that explain this communication. I am using Objective c as the main programming language and also java for the servers.     Many thanx for the help    Cheers  Saif ALSAIFI

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david_r
Influencer
11 years ago
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jr
asked in Transformers
SQLCreator with ArcSDE

Is it possible in FME to use SQLCreator with a custom (or any) ArcSDE Reader?   What I have now is a workspace that uses a SQLCreator to take in an entire (not just the WHERE clause) SQL statement from a web form, and then it exposes all attributes using AttributeExposer, and then styles the result of this through KMLStyler, and then finally passes off this result to a KML writer.  This works perfectly where the reader is Oracle non-spatial (on SDOGEOMETRY data).  Now, I need to do the exact same thing, except that I am required to use STGEOMETRY instead of SDOGEOMETRY.  I've created a custom Reader to help with my purposes (let's just call it XReader), but I see no way of incorporating that Reader into SQLCreator.  Is there any way to make XReader available to SQLCreator?  I have tried importing XReader without success (I can provide detail if needed).   Thanks very much.  

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J
11 years ago
srg
srg
asked in Authoring
FME Desktop FMW Workspace Summary Information

Sometime back with in FME Desktop, if I am correct FME 2003 X2 release there was this cool option in FME to enable in Windows Explorer, summary information on the reader, writer and transformers used in mapping files and workspaces. I am unable to see this functionality in FME Desktop 2013.  Am I missing something or is this functionality not available now!  Regards SRG

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mhab
Contributor
11 years ago
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boyen
asked in Data
GeoTiFF and NoData

Another question from me.  I know that FME is capable of setting no data on geotiffs when making a conversion from polygon to raster. Setting a background value with the ImageRasterizer and then filling it with Nodata. Interpreting this image in ArcGIS, the Nodata actually means no data and can be excluded from calculations.   I want to do the same process process manually without the conversion from a polygon. So GeoTiff --> GeoTiff.  The RasterBandNodataSetter doesn't seem to actually work for me what should I fill in for "Nodata Value" when for instance I want all the 255,255,255 values to be regarded as NoData? To what attribute should it be linked? Any alternatives? I prefer not to make a conversion to shape first, if possible.   FME desktop 2012

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B
11 years ago
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benton
asked in Transformers
Aggregate diagonal touching polygons

Hello, I have a dataset that in which I need to reduce records. The dataset is made up of a grid that covers a very large area and has been exported from a raster dataset. I will call each unit of this grid a cell, which is essentially a square of equal sides and measures some 0.5 ha.  The first method that I have used to reduce records was the DISSOLVE transformer and grouping by several attributes, which works great for all cells that have common boundaries - no surprise there.  I would like to include cells that only have a corner point in common and can be grouped by the same several attributes.  Is there a transformer that would carry out this sort of task?  Regards Benton

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C
11 years ago

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