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How to add "genericAttributeSet" tag in CityGML data

I would like to generat "genericAttributeSet" tag in CityGML data like as follows: <gen:genericAttributeSet name="xxxxxxxxxxxxx"> <gen:stringAttribute name="xx"> <gen:value>yyy</gen:value> </gen:stringAttribute> <gen:stringAttribute name="aaaaaaa"> <gen:value>12345</gen:value> </gen:stringAttribute> <gen:measureAttribute name="zzzzz"> <gen:value uom="m">67.54</gen:value> </gen:measureAttribute> </gen:genericAttributeSet>Could you tell me how to manage attributs for this?

Can not connect to ArcSDE

Hello, I am trying to connect to our Enterprise Geodatabase. This used to work for quite a long time using FME 32 bit (several older FME versions). Using FME 64 bit (on the same machine) produced an error like this:Could not open the Enterprise Geodatabase. The error number from ArcObjects is: '-2147216028'. The error message from ArcObjects is: {Keine No SDEHOME-Umgebungsvariable festgelegt} Please ensure the connection parameters are correct (server=`sde', instance=`....', user=`....', password=`***', database=`', version=`SDE.DEFAULT') Now we have FME 2020.2 64 bit and I don't have the 32 bit version anymore.I created a database connection file (*.sde) using ArcCatalog on my machine. There, I can see the database and connect to it. I can also open the connection in ArcCatalog directly using my sde file. But I can't use the same connection file to connect a reader (Format: Esri Geodatabase (ArcSDE Geodb Raster Dataset)) in FME. Three colleagues

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koenvdwContributor

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spatialfilter problem

Hi I have a shape file with points and a shape file with polygons.I want per point a csv file with all the polygons containing that point. It looks like this: 1,photo31,photo41,photo71,photo9.... My workbench works, until a point that lays in 2 polygons. The polygon will only be added in the first csv file and not in both. I tried group by name and group by fotonamen, but that doesn't work.

4 years ago

nielsgerritsVIP

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Transformers are deselected when panning.

When I re-organize the transformers in a 2019 workspace, the selected transformers are being deselected when panning. Select by fence with the left mouse button. Zoom using CTRL and scroll wheel. Pan clicking the middle mouse / scroll button.I'm quite sure it worked this way in previous versions.Is this a setting which can be changed? If not, am I the only one having this issue?

4 years ago

dennis

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how can I update citygml data with shapefile attributes and convert to 3d tiles for visualization?

4 years ago

trialing

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Basic JSON to tabular format. I can't work out how to take contents of an array and map to fields.

I am new to this and learning but...I have a JSON object and am trying to extract the attributes to load to PostGreSQL and I am hitting my head against a wall. The format of the JSON is generally as so: { model: 1, version: 2, content: [ { x=1, y=2 },{ x=3, y=4 } ]} I want to output something along the lines of:model, version, x, y1, 2, 1, 21, 2, 3, 4 For the life of ne I cannot work it out, to me the documentation and step by steps are not clear. I am using a standard JSON reader. Whatever I try, flattener, fragmentation, I cannot opreate on the content.I had an instance where I managed to get all extracted using an extractor but this would populate the attributes for each item in the content array and concat together to look like this:model, version, x, y11, 22, 13, 24 The real JSON is a lot more complicated but at this ve

Columns recognised but dropped when reading a CSV file

I have CSVs with over 2 million rows. For some reasons, Reader appears to be dropping some columns , and yet I know Reader recognised they existed because they are missing in the column name order. For example, when columns col3 and col6 are dropped the auto-generated attribute names are col0, col0,col1,col2,col4,col5,col7,col8,col9. I have tried various options in reader but clearly not the right one . There is plenty of RAM and disk space. In some files, the missing columns are blank but I have also seen this happen in files that do not have blanks in missing columns. Some columns have strings enclosed in double-quotes. Any pointers please

Cluster analysis on pavement rutting

I have a bunch of point data (pavement rut) along roads, that I want to practice to cluster analysis. The point of the analysis would be to show where the most significant pavement rutes are accumulated along a road section. (ex. road juction with traffic ligths )I am looking for the best FMEtransformer that can perform the analysis. Do you have any idea for it?

Hi! Is it possible to convert png to eps in FME? If yes, how? I've tried a simple conversion with just a png reader and a eps writer, but get the error "EPS writer: EPS WRITER: Error, the feature does not have a eps type attached".

4 years ago

simonhumeParticipant

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CSV file with different columns populated based on first column

Good morningI have a problem I currently am unable to resolve, which is a csv file containing address data and additional spatial and non-spatial information related to the individual addresses. The csv file is ordered according to a Record Identifier.However each Record Identifier has a different number of columns populated with data. The minimum number of columns is 19, the maximum 29If i attach a Tester to set the 1st column to a particular Record Identifier eg 23 then attach an Inspector, the result always shows 19 columns, which is the number of columns the first record in the file has (which is Record Identifier 11).If i export to an .xlsx file using a template of the source Record Identifier data i want to write to, only the first 19 columns are populated, the other 10 columns are blank even if that particular Record Identifier uses the additional 10 columns.Can anyone suggest how i can force the tester to recognise the number of columns the Record Identifier has, or an alternat

NetCDF extract values to attributes?

I have a NetCDF with below values in each band. How do I go about extracting these values to an attribute using a set of points? They don't seem to come up in attribute list only when I click on a pixel in inspector.

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4 years ago

mark2atsafeSafer

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What's Up Wednesday: FME News for the Week Ending 27-November-2020

Hi everyone,It's Mark here with all the FME news that I can find for this week. FME Data Express v1.4.0The latest version of the FME Data Express app is now available. Apart from the usual bug fixes (we try not to include any, but they will sneak in) there is also better geometry parameter support, the location picker now remembers zoom levels and map types, and there is new search functionality in the repository list. As always you can find it on both the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store, so give it a try. It's a great way to run workspaces on Server from a mobile device. FME Server Microsoft .NET APII'm told that the Microsoft .NET API for FME Server is going to be deprecated and removed from the product for FME Server 2021. The technical reason is that the .NET API is incompatible with new updates to Server, and the work to bring it up to speed can't be justified. So, if you're using this API, we strongly recommend that you take the steps to transition t

4 years ago

chriswilsonSupporter

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Service account cannot access shared FME database and web connections

We have a shared web and database connections directory, into which public FME connections go. Our service account that runs overnight tasks (via Windows Server 2016 task scheduler) has explicit permissions to this directory, but cannot see/use connections unless they are embedded in workspaces. Interactive login is disabled for this account, but I'm wondering if I might need to log in as the account and set default paths for FME so it can see the connections? Alternatively, any other ideas for why this may not be working? In the current case the connection is to ArcGIS Online and there is no apparent option to embed the connection in the workspace. The connection was made public as it was created.

Classifying a mostly unclassified LAS data set Generating vegetation shapefiles from LAS

I have some questions about working with point clouds.I’ve done a little work with them before in FME. Mostly coordinate reprojections, clipping, thinning, etc. Pretty basic stuff.This time I have a slightly more complicated problem. I have an LAS data set that is not fully classified, there are no vegetation classifications.I would like to use the LiDAR data to do some basic vegetation classification, resulting in shapefiles that I can use to classify areas that are vegetated.As someone pretty inexperienced with FME, I’m not sure what the best sort of workbench is. I would love to see some examples and to experiment a bit with both of these problems.I’ve built a few workflows but they don’t work!

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4 years ago

markcoopersdcContributor

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Alternative to Aggregator

Hi. I am using the Aggregator transformer to summarise some tabular data by a reference (there may be multiple records originally for each reference). I am merging the attributes and concatenating some attributes. This is technically doing exactly what I want but with nearly 1m records, it is very slow. I know there are usually multiple ways to achieve something in FME so I wondered there an alternative to the Aggregator to do what I need? Many thanks Thanks

How can I properly read attributes of a KML and its values ?

Inserting a KMl into FME desktop results in a schema-less reader. Which steps do I have to take to convert its attribute (values) to e.g. shapefile or fgdb?

Merging several CSV files with different Schema

I have a FME 2019 Desktop workflow that reads three CSV files and write all input data (points) to only one FeatureClass in the output fileGeodatabase. Every CSV file has a different schema, i.e.: every CSV file has several fields in common but most of them are different. This is the workflow:Every month I will have to run this workflow with a different set of CSV files with probably will have different schema than this ones, and also could be more than three CSV files. So, how can I read automatically the schema of CSV files ? Thank you !

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4 years ago

geo-xParticipant

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How can I build a json from list with sub sub sub object ?

Dear FME community. I'm trying to extract, from a json object, the json arrays.My object looks like :As you can see, I've multiple sub objects and I want to extract this parts :In this case, I tried to use the transformer jsontemplater but I was stopped by the loop in the json for sub sub object.In this part I do this :But maybe it' not the best method, that's why I need help.Do you see how can I do this ?Thank you very much.

XY point to point distance

I think I read entire forum... but can't find any answer.I have number of single control point, ascii with XY column and corresponding another file containing also XY. I would like to 1stfor each control points from set 1 find a closest point from set 2 and calculate average xy and rmscombine the rms and average magnited and output as a one number Maaaasive thanks for all your timej

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damian6105Participant

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Geodatabase lock error when uploading to Google Drive

I'm trying to export feature layers from ArcGIS Online to Geodatabase, then upload the Geodatabase to Google Drive. I'm using a 'Choice with Alias (multiple)' user parameter to select and export one or more feature layers. If I select one feature layer my FME script works fine. If I select more than one layer then I get a geodatabase lock error while uploading the Geodatabase to Google Drive. This is the error message: PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'C:\\\\MyDirectory\\\\MyGeodatabase.gdb\\\\_gdb.JD2344.18360.9116.sr.lock'Error encountered while calling method `input'GoogleDrive_Geo_CALLER (PythonFactory): PythonFactory failed to process feature I'm hoping someone can suggest a solution. My FME script is attached.Regards, Damian

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4 years ago

lilyParticipant

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Is it possible to add the coordinates from the coordinate extractor transformer to a writer?

Is it possible to add the coordinates from the coordinate extractor transformer to a writer? Like example from coordinate extractor column _indices{}.x (64 bit real) into a shapefile with column x. I tried changing data type from double, float, char... but the line connecting the transformer to writer simply will not connect to each other.

Im getting error while converting dxf to geojson through cmd.Cannot create dataset: 'C:\\conversions\\17d5313d-7982-45fb-98c3-a04a0e4a9b92\\tuscs.json' of type Directory, expected a dataset of type Regular filebut when i changed the path C:\\conversions\\tuscs.json translation is successful.How can i avoid this error.

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4 years ago

kattContributor

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How to replace value by value of another record?

Hello, I have a table like this:ID - value x - value y1 - 5 - 302 - 9 - 403 - 8 - 704 - 76 - 89I want to replace the value x of ID 4 by the value x of ID 1. So that my table would be like this:ID - value x - value y1 - 5 - 302 - 9 - 403 - 8- 704 - 5 - 89What transformer should I use ?

Administering ArcSDE with FME

Hi, I currently administer an ArcSDE database and have most things automated with Python and task scheduling. This works well but it is far from transparent and simple, and I feel I could use FME to automate the entire process. I'm thinking that while some of the process could be handled with the inbuilt transformers I would definitely still need to utilise ArcPy for most tasks and so would rely heavily on the PythonCaller transformer. Is this an avenue I should explore, or is this best dealt with another way? Has any one else successfully done this, and if so are there any examples available? Thanks in advance. Nathan

4 years ago

mark2atsafeSafer

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Happy GIS Day 2020

From a thread on Twitter I was trying to think of GIS or map-related films. Here's my list. Do you have any other good ones? https://twitter.com/FMEEvangelist/status/1329181019879202816 (EPSG:)1917Hell or High Water Mark Crazy Rich Geometry A Quiet Placemark In the Heat Map of the Night A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood Analysis True North Grit The Shapefile of Water Parasite starring GeoJSong Kang Ho

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