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I like to use FME Desktop to convert multiple DTED Files into one single MBTile file. Does anyone has a simple example on how to go about it?

Welcome to another crisp autumn What’s Up Wednesday, most of the leaves have fallen where I’m writing this from and the rains have set in. What better time to grab a hot beverage and sit down to catch up on the latest FME news.  2020.1.3 (b20632) ReleasedIf you are interested in our new trial process, this build has some updates for that. As always, you can download the latest release or try out a beta on our website. FME World Tour on DemandIt’s been almost six months since we transitioned our FME World Tour from a roadshow to a new virtual experience. Did you know we recorded the event thing so you can watch it on demand whenever!  Now is also a great time to start thinking about your FME World Tour presentations for 2021.  DataEng UncomplicatedDataEng Uncomplicated is an awesome FME customer YouTube channel that produces high-quality walkthrough videos covering some of the more complicated FME tasks. If you’re looking to change the temp directory, perform basic web scraping, learn h

I'm facing a strange issue reading a DGN file with FME 2018.1. If I open it with the Data Inspector, I see a weird aggregate whose origin I do not understand: If I open the file with a DGN viewer or AutoCAD, I dont't see anything wrong:I use the default parameters of the DGN (v7) Reader. I have tried to change some of them to see what happens, but so far no luck.Does anyone know why FME builds such a weird a geometry? Is there any workaround? I have tested the same DGN with the last version of FME and everything looks fine, but right now the client doesn't want to upgrade from the 2018 version.Obviously, something has improved over the last couple of years to let FME read this DGN properly. I have been reading the "Change Logs", but I can't find the improvement that could have allowed the reader to form the proper geometry.  It would be a great help if someone could lead me to the improvement of the reader. Maybe that way I can understand what is wrong with my

Hi, I have a dataset that as part of a cleanup I am generalising. It is a vector dataset derived from aerial photography, therefore it has a slightly pixelated look. The point of the generalising is to remove this look and 'smooth' the output. The problem is that at times the output becomes too generalised. See below where relatively straight lines become quite pronounced. In this instance, I do not want the lines to change much. But for example below these particular parameters do a great job. Here, with the same parameters as above it has done a great job of removing the pixelated look.Is there any way to limit the generalisation of the 90 degree angles and allowing the smoothing to take place in other areas?I think it might be unlikely there is a solution, it may just be a limitation of the generaliser transformer. I have tried all the different smoothing parameters/algorithms and this seems to be the best. I'm currently using the NURBfit (Smooth) with a degree of basis

I am trying to merge 2 simple PDFs, both one page in length, together as one page.

Hello, I have a text format attribute (lenght : 5 characters (for exple : FEFER, FOUSER,...)) as primary key and I want to change it in integer attribute format. Do you know about methods to do it ? I've tried ASCII conversion but it gives results more than the integer limit.For exemple : I thought I could change each letter by the number (A->1, B->2, ...). How can I do it ? Thank you for your help.

I would like to filter my dataset based on addresses that don't match. The Tester is not giving the expected output. Please see the screenshots below: The first screenshot (Tester1) is of Tester Parameters box where I have set the addresses of the joined dataset to not equal each other. The second screenshot (Tester2) shows the transformer output and as you can see the addresses are the same. Thank you for your help!  

Hi all,I have some open data from the UK Ordnance Survey of place names.There is a CSV file for each OS grid tile containing XY coordinates and the name and details of the location. However these files do not contain field headers. The field headers are supplied in a separate CSV. I would like to create geometry files from the CSVs but don't know how to apply the field names from one CSV to others so my outputs can have the correct fields names.Is this something FME can do? Once the field names are in place then I can use a VertexCreator and assign X/Y to the correct fields Attached is some sample data.Thanks in advance

I need to download data from this website:https://www.ep-online.nl/ep-online/PublicData Beside that, I have access to the api key.  I would like to use the HTTP caller to download data from this website. However, I could not figure out which parameters to use in the transformer. Using the browser console it seems that I need a POST request?Beside that I doubted where to fill the api key in the HTTP caller? See attached the message from the browser console. 

Hello everyone,Today I have a Question of the Week that came through Live Chat.  Question of the WeekHere's a section of the Live Chat log:Andrea E: Hi, how are you today?User: Hi AndreaAndrea E: How can I help you?User: I am doing a spatial overlay of a point layer (animal licenses) over a postcode polygonUser: I was able to get the total number of point inside each postcode User: but I also want to get the total number per animal type - dog or catAndrea E: So you want the break down within each postcode of dog or cat?So the question is: how many of each type of animal are licensed for each postcode boundary? For that we'll need to do an overlay, maybe create a list, and then calculate some statistics. Live ChatSo Live Chat is how our support teams can communicate with users in an online conversation. I don't do that work and I admire those who do because you have to think very quickly to come up with an answer. In the time she had, Andrea came up with this solution:  Using Businesses

I am using Microsoft Access database in Hexagon Geospatials GeoMedia Professional. I am trying to read the features and inspect the geometries. I can read the features but FME does not seem to handle the geometry? FME show the geometry field with binary data, but it does not render the geometry. I have never used MS Access to read geometry data before. Any ideas of what is going wrong or how I can solve it?

Hello,I have a shp layer of lines for which I need to calculate the length of each line then round it to suppress the decimals. I use the lenghtcalculator to get the lenght of each line but for some lines I get results such as 7.566995918750763e-10 or 1.7276990785794134e-9With these results, I get 0 after the attributerounder. I even tried a stringformatter to reduce the amount of decimals but theses objets also turn into 0.Is there a way to avoid getting so much precision when calculating the lenght ? Or another way to calculate the lenght (I get the same result with an attribute creator and length() ) ? Many thanks in adance!Ann

Hello FMEr's around the world! I am having an issue with the emailer in 2020. its rejecting the email for no reason that I can understand.Below is a portion of the log and a picture of the error. Thanks in advanced for any feedback. Stay safe! G  +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++Feature Type: `FEATURE_TYPE'Attribute(32 bit unsigned integer): `_creation_instance' has value `0'Attribute(string) : `fme_feature_type' has value `Creator'Attribute(string) : `fme_geometry' has value `fme_undefined'Attribute(encoded: UTF-8) : `fme_rejection_code' has value `ERROR_DURING_PROCESSING'Attribute(encoded: UTF-8) : `fme_rejection_message' has value `<class 'OSError'>: [WinError 10013] An attempt was made to access a socket in a way forbidden by its access permissions'Attribute(string) : `fme_type' has value `fme_no_geom'Coordinate System: `'Geometry Type: IFMENull   

Hello people!!! I have this one serious problems in regards to the workbench. The process went smoothly and I get the results I want but there seems to be one Writer Data not shown and I tried so many ways to make it appear but none happened.. Did I miss something here? *Attention to Bridge* Many Thanks

Hi, I think, there's a bug in FME 2020.1. It's not possible to get an UTF-8 encoded result if I use the XSLTProcessor with UTF-8 encoded xml-doc as attribute and UTF-8 encoded embedded xslt-stylesheet attribute.The XSLT-definition has also "<xsl:output method="xml" encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes" version="2.0" />" included.  Best regards, Matthias

I like to test out new beta functionality and would like to have a better idea about when the next official major release would be available. I end up telling colleagues about this new functionality and when they ask when it will be available, I would like to give them a good estimate of when that would be out.  I wasn't sure Safe was shooting for a certain month for each major release version, or they just happen whenever they are ready. For example, I'm looking at the new dynamic FME Server App Gallery updates that are to be release with 2020.2 and would like to know when that might be available to download for the official release.

Hi. I have a feature class (ESRI filegeodatabase) with lines and one with points. The tolerence of the featureclasses are 0.02m, and I need to disperse/move some points which are within the tolerence of each other (or else they are overlapping according to ESRI Utility Network).   I want to disperse/move the points by 0.025m so they no longer overlap. Just like this: How can I accomplish this? What I've tried so far is finding overlapping points with a neighborfinder and creating a custom transformer for moving the points. The custom transformer uses a snipper (with a set distance) and coordinateExtractor to get new coordinates for the points, vertexcreator for replacing the actual point and then another neighborfinder to find out if the point has other overlapping points. The distance used in the snipper is incremented by each iteration. But this isn't working. Am I maybe overcomplicating things? :) 

Hi all, Something strange happened. I was working on a my FME workspace this afternoon and after I was done working I closed it normally, however later tonight I started FME and to my surprise I couldn't find that workspace along with few other workspaces in my local drive. this is really strange...Any suggestions on how to recover those files even if they are deleted by system or by some virus...Thanks H

Hi friends give me some advice how do I read the FBX files that are located in different places on the disk?PS. I have a file with the exact address to each file I need.

My CityGML exported by CityGML writer is described for appearance as follows: <app:appearanceMember>  <app:Appearance>   <app:theme>FMETheme</app:theme>   <app:surfaceDataMember>    <app:ParameterizedTexture>     <app:imageURI> I would like to chage those to the following description  <core:cityObjectMember>     <bldg:Building gml:id="xxxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx">        <creationDate>2020-10-01</creationDate>        <app:appearance>        <app:Appearance>        <app:theme>texturation</app:theme>           <app:surfaceDataMember>              <app:ParameterizedTexture> Could you tell me the solution?

I have an FME workspace that I have set to run on a scheduled day/time etc through the Windows Task Scheduler. This worked fine, but recently the following happens:the workspace does start to run, but gets stuck at some point while reading the data (Usually 3 minutes in to a workbench that runs about 30 minutes normally)this is more or less at the same point in time where FME creates a ffs logfile.the task scheduler doesn't show that the task failed, it shows that everything went fine (task result = (0x0))the regular workspace logfile just shows the process stuck somewhere at reading something that does issue a warning. I checked and the workspace is set to keep running through warnings. Like I mentioned, everything used to work fine. The machine we run it on is an Azure machine. The tasks is set to run on a time when I'm normally not logged onto the machine. When I do log on to the machine and run the task manually on the task scheduler, everything seems to work fine. Becaus

I am using the dissolver to aggregate and dissolve area polygons grouping them by an ID. I am getting the error below but when I test the incoming geometry it is all areas.  2020-09-13 14:27:09|20366.8| 54.1|FATAL |Expression: !isPoly || curve->isClosed2D() Any ideas how this can be resolved?Thanks

Hi!I'm looking for create a specific grid over my datas. It's not a standard grid with rows and columns. I would like to have polygons with the same areas and put them along my datas. The polygons have to be joined and no have superposition. The datas have to be centered (or almost), the idea is to have maximum datas on the polygon and not just a little bit.After I would like to create numbering based on the order of these polygons. I tried with 2Dgridcreator and spatialfilter with my datas convert on a polygon (hullreplacer), but I have a lot of polygon with few data and a lot of empty. On the capture, that I would like to obtain. Do you have an idea? Thanks!

So I have this IMDF writer. Everything works fine except for this one property building_ids. The writer in safe says it is just a string. However, I have trouble making it generate output. In reality, it needs to look like this in the generated geojson: "building_ids" : ["8f0f9e75-860d-4050-a0f0-3483cd895a31"]

How would I isolate the top face of some buildings I've just extruded? - so that I can apply different appearances to the top and the walls.