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giskis
asked in Transformers
Output multiple transparent WMS-images on a PDF?

Hi Im trying to put together a PDF map using different WMS sources. Setting the option TRANSPARENT=TRUE in the getmap requests, then using imageFetcher to retrieve images. And finaly I use PDF geospatial writer.  Result is multiple layers in the PDF, but however no transperancy.. I have tried using both PNG/GIF. It would be awesome if you have some suggestion.  Best regards

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G
11 years ago
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firsttube
asked in Authoring
MapTextLabeller Workflow

I am evaluating FME 2013 Desktop.  The MapTextLabeller feature is of particular interest to me.  I need an example work flow that can read several shapefiles, create the labels for all, and write out the labels as points/lines to a shape file with attributes for text, rotation angle, font size, etc.  This shape file would be then imported into a GIS software to create the actual labels for display.  Any help would be much appreciated.  

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fmelizard
Contributor
11 years ago
johann
Participant
johannParticipant
asked in Transformers
Workpace statistics

Hello, is there a way to know some stats about a workspace, such as the number of transformers used (including customs), the number of feature type, etc...  My workspace is quite huge... I can't count manually...  Thanks, Johann

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fmelizard
Contributor
11 years ago
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surkul
asked in Transformers
Label Creation

Hi I want to create labels for facility buildings with their respective names. I can use label point replacer to create these but the trouble is the labels are overlapped. If I want to assign offset when overlap occurs how can I do that? Also, is there any way I can introduce carriage return say after every two words and create labels based on that? Thanks in advance. Regards Surag

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fmelizard
Contributor
11 years ago
srg
srg
asked in Transformers
Use Persistent Cache- FME Universal Viewer Vs Data Inspector

Hello, In FME Universal Viewer, there is an option "Use persistent Cache" available to the user to save data in the local file system for subsequent use, such as in situations in which access to the data is over a low-bandwidth link, access is not available at all or the dataset is very large.  Is this option available in Data Inspector? Regards SRG

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fmelizard
Contributor
11 years ago
jhawks
Contributor
jhawksContributor
asked in Data
Workbench to write shapefiles to Oracle

This should be easy but I'm getting conflicting answers/stories. I want workbench to write shapefiles into oracle 11g in such away that arcmap can than access them (to then create an AGS REST serivce). Do I want an SDE write or an Oracle writer?

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fmelizard
Contributor
11 years ago
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carto30
asked in Data
how to know the value of nodata of a geotiff image?

Hi,  Do you know how to get the value of the nodata of a geotiff image?  Thanks 

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C
11 years ago
ebygomm
Contributor
ebygommContributor
asked in Authoring
Filtering by fme_basename - autocomplete possible?

If you want to use an attributefilter to filter by fme_basename is it possible to autocomplete the basenames of the files that are read into the workspace?  

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ebygomm
Contributor
11 years ago
barrett_h
Contributor
barrett_hContributor
asked in Authoring
Finding dead-end roads along a bike race route

Hi all,  Please forgive my long explaination but I don't know how else to describe the problem.  We have a bike race occurring soon that requires letters to be sent to residents that will be impacted by road closures along the route. I have a shapefile of the roads used for the route that I intend to buffer, then intersect with the adjoining property boundaries to get the postal information for those who live along the route.  The issue I have is that a simple buffer of the route is not enough. For those people who live in dead-end roads who's only exit point is onto the closed road I need to ensure all those residents receive a letter too.   Therefore I need to be able to select all dead-end roads that intersect the bike route so that I can also buffer them... I have no idea how to achieve this!  The road data is topologically correct so I imagine it it some form of network analysis.  Any ideas?  Thanks in advance, Bazza

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sigtill
Contributor
11 years ago
B
bmac
asked in Transformers
ArcGISonline post/get data

Hi,  I want to download data from our companys ArcGIS online account.  We have guys in the field editing, I want to download their field work, process it, post it back for them to review.   I am not familiar with both "getting" and 'posting" data sources on the web or the lingo eg REST, SOAP etc. I tried the WFS reader and couldnt get the correct settings.  Any help aimed at a novice would be much appreciated  cheers Brian   

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sigtill
Contributor
11 years ago
mapnut
mapnut
asked in Transformers
Point Problems...

I am in the process of converting a whole bunch of regions to points via the "InsidePointReplacer".  I am writing to a MapInfo TAB file so even if there are polygons remaining it shouldn't matter (geometry: <ALL>).  But I'm getting some weird 'warnings' when I run it.  FME warns:  2012-12-19 13:03:57| 15.5| 0.0|WARN |=========================================================================== 2012-12-19 13:03:57| 15.5| 0.0|WARN |Below feature has too few coordinates -- a region feature needs more than 3 coordinate pairs 2012-12-19 13:03:57| 15.5| 0.0|WARN |+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2012-12-19 13:03:57| 15.5| 0.0|WARN |Feature Type: `Points'  But you can clearly see that it has already determined that it is a point.  I even tried using a GeometryCoercer to convince the writer that they are points.  No luck.  So then it says that:   2012-12-19 13:04:06| 22.5| 0.0|WARN |Rejected 21781 feature(s) d

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hakans
Contributor
11 years ago
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rhodri
asked in Transformers
Xquery and FME

A while ago, I posted a question about rendering maps using FME and I was shown the Cartopgrahic Rendering Tricks webinar done by Dotted Eyes.  I'm currently working on reproducing this (amoungst other things), but I've run into a bit of a snag when attempting to fill in the correct polyline symbol.  The information on the polyline is stored in an XML file, but I don't know Xquery well enough to phrase the command correctly.  The current query is    doc(Standard_Style_1.xml)/StandardStyle1/ColourPolygonStyles/g[id = coniferousTreeFillSymbol]  which returns    |AreaSymbolizer_XQueryExtractor_StandardStyle1_ColourPolygonStyles_g_id__coniferousTreeFillSymbol__(XQueryFactory): The following error occurred near line 1, column 5 of the query:    12 14:19:30|  36.7|  0.0|WARN  |AreaSymbolizer_XQueryExtractor_StandardStyle1_ColourPolygonStyles_g_id__coniferousTreeFillSymbol__(XQueryFactory): evaluation of an expression relies on some part of the dynamic context that has not been

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R
11 years ago
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bruno_de_lat
asked in Transformers
FME Challenge: Count the maximum number of non overlapping circles!

Hi all,  I've a very interesting FME challenge. Any ideas and suggestions how to solve this are very welcome.  I've some parcels with irregular shapes and I want to know the maximum of circles (with a radius of 2,5 meter, diameter is 5m)) can be placed inside these parcels without overlap of the circles and without crossing the parcel boundaries. Below you can see what I mean:  The green polygones are the irregular shaped parcels. I would like to know the maximum number of black cirkels that fit in each of the parcels.   Some remarks: - The solution I'm looking for doesn't have to be exact, but should be a good estimation. - The solution doesn't need to give me the circles (but it would be nice), but just the number of circles is fine as well  I have already some ideas, but some good extra suggestions are welcome. - My first idea would be something like this: 1) create regular grid with circles with radius of 2.5 m, but spaced 1 by 1 m (so overlapping) 2) select all

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B
11 years ago
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jesuspisto
asked in Data
Polygon can't be written to file geodatabase

I'm reading polygons from SDE and selecting them with the spatial filter transformer. I add and calculate a few attributes and then output to file geodatabase but I get an error message saying that non poly feature can't be written to poly feature class in file gdb.  Why the error? Data is coming from SDE so geometry is fine, and I'm not altering it in my script.   This always seem to occur with the same polygon. Any ideas or suggestions?  thanks  

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11 years ago
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tlabs
asked in Transformers
MultiLine Labels

I have a situation where I would like to label buildings based on three attributes,(label1, label2, label3) and I would like to label them on seperate lines.  I successfully did this using the the TextAdder transformer in addtion to the Offsetter Transformer but I had to use three of each.... is their a way of  completing this task using a constant within the Editor parameters so I didn't have to use 1 transformer per label.  For example in GeoMedia you can use NewLine Label1NewlineLabel2NewlineLabel3

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T
11 years ago
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boyen
asked in Transformers
Calculate values of raster cells?

Hello,  I have a raster input that has cell values ranging from 0 - 255 (unsigned 8 bit).  What I want to do is twofold:  1. All values ranging from 0 - 250 need to be devided by 2.5 rounded up/down so that those values range from 0 - 100 instead. 2. The values above 250 need to get other values, for instance 255 needs to  become 251.   I don't mind assigning every value individualy i.e: 250 --> 100 249 --> 99 etc..  I just want to know if it's possible to do this. The only way I found was first creating a shape file out of the raster file and then using an attribute value mapper on the shape file going back to raster. There must be an easier way...  Thanks! Boyen  FME 2012, Vista

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C
11 years ago
T
tlabs
asked in Transformers
Feature Class extraction

  Does anybody know how to extract information from one feature class and output as a new Feature Class ?  (I am pulling from an SQL database for GeoMedia to place into a GeoMedia access database)    Example: I have a Water network (feature class) with two attributes with the following options    Status: conceptual, proposed, in service  and  Owner: City, Other    I want to extract all the IN SERVICE pipes that are of type CITY.  Does anybody know the write transformer that would produce these results?     

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sam
Participant
11 years ago
fmelizard
Contributor
fmelizardContributor
asked in Transformers
CAD to GIS

Below is a question that was posted to the US DoT GIS User community.  I thought that the FME Community may be able to provide some insight:  Hi all,  We have some projects going right now working to harvest CAD data to feed our growing enterprise asset management system.  We are running into issues with being able to carry some sort of identifier for each feature (culvert, sign, etc.) coming out of a design plan and into a database where we can add addition business data without manual editing. My questions are twofold. First we are looking to talk to any of you that have a process where Microstation users can push a button that kicks off a process using FME (or any other kind of macro) to pull information out of CAD and into Oracle or SQL.   Second, we would like to be able to attach/imbed some sort of feature ID/key to a feature in Microstation that can be extracted into a table with that feature geometry and used as a key field to attach to a table with business data.  We have a so

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Z
11 years ago
adrian
Contributor
adrianContributor
asked in Transformers
Is it possible to transfer a parameter in a URL

Hi, I am wondering if it possible to pass a parameter value to a workbench on FME Server in a URL?  For example a user clicks on a link from an asset in the GIS which launches FME Server and passes the unique asset ID as a parameter for the workbench file to run against.  Hope that makes sense lol.

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davideagle
Contributor
11 years ago
adrian
Contributor
adrianContributor
asked in Transformers
Passing user parameter to a transformer

Hi all,  I have a query I hope someone will be able to answer.  I am creating a workbench to load up to FME Server and I want the user to select a site from a drop down list (which I have been able to do) and then I need to pass the users selection to a buffer transformer.  How do you pass the users selection to the buffer transformer?  Many thanks in advance.

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adrian
Contributor
11 years ago
C
chesney
asked in Data
Multipatch 3D shapefiles to DGN

Hi I'm looking to translate some building multipatch 3D shapefile data into CAD format. We are using ArcGIS 10.1 and FME 2012. Could anyone help please? Thank you.

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fmelizard
Contributor
11 years ago
P
petejnr
asked in Data
Output data to local drive

I have a job which has been added to FME Server. I would like a user to log into FME Server and run the workspace but allow them to process a textfile on their local drive and output a shapefile to their local drive also. The workspace connects to Oracle Spatial to retrieve some data also. Is this possible? Thanks

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sigtill
Contributor
11 years ago
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petejnr
asked in Authoring
Source filename as output filename

I have a textfile reader and a shapefile writer. Is there a way I can extract the first part of the textfile name and use this as the shapefile name? Thanks

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C
11 years ago
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joost
asked in Transformers
Convert dbase tot cad

Hi,  I have a .dbf table with X, y and Z coordinates. I need to convert this to a dxf file with z-coordinate. How do I do that?  I'm quite a newbee in FME, but that's not surprising I think.  Joost

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J
11 years ago
D
dominic
asked in Data
DGN to DGN

Hi,  I have build a model that read a .dgn file, add MsLink and then write the result in a new .dgn file. I have a problem with the cells.  When i run the model, I receive this message : DESIGN WRITER: The cells read from the cell file V8.cel' are as follows: META RESURG TOUR MINE RAPIDE GOUFFR BATIME PONT BRULEU COTTER COINFE PYLONE HUMIDE FLECHE CHUTE SILO PHARE HYDROB MARINA ROCHE SKI TOURT CAMPIN NUMOV ETANGE RESERV MAIMOB ENLEV LEGMAJ SCAN20 MODIF SEGABS REPRE AJOU SCANB SEGNCO SEGTRO SEGIMP NOTE_B DESIGN WRITER: Error - An attempt was made to write a cell but could not find the value of 'igds_cell_name' on the feature   

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srg
11 years ago

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