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What is FME's Headphone Socket?

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jdh
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  • September 14, 2016
mark2catsafe wrote:

OK. No one else has mentioned it, so I am going to jump in with this one.

What if we removed Shape support from FME?

Now that really would be like removing the headphones socket. Do you think everyone would move to a better format (wireless headphones = geodatabase?) or would they stop using FME?!

It'll never happen - but just imagine the outcry if we did!

CAT and Shape forever!

 

 

david_r
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  • September 14, 2016
mark2catsafe wrote:

I can't recall if we ever did this, but for one old FME Idol I wanted development to create me a Workbench without the canvas! See if anyone could create a translation by keyboard shortcuts alone. Just imagine an iPhone without a screen. It could be amazingly small. I think Apple are missing a trick there.

As long as I get access to the Python startup script, I'm game!

 

 

I think the display-less phone has been done, though

 

redgeographics
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mark2catsafe wrote:

OK. No one else has mentioned it, so I am going to jump in with this one.

What if we removed Shape support from FME?

Now that really would be like removing the headphones socket. Do you think everyone would move to a better format (wireless headphones = geodatabase?) or would they stop using FME?!

It'll never happen - but just imagine the outcry if we did!

That's already been done: FME cancels support for 325 formats, rebrands to XME

 

 

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Nice answers! I've dished out some reputation points. Always interesting to hear your views - and sarcasm ;-)

 

 

ngoorman
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  • September 19, 2016
mark2catsafe wrote:

OK. No one else has mentioned it, so I am going to jump in with this one.

What if we removed Shape support from FME?

Now that really would be like removing the headphones socket. Do you think everyone would move to a better format (wireless headphones = geodatabase?) or would they stop using FME?!

It'll never happen - but just imagine the outcry if we did!

Nothing in the past 15 years has stopped people from using shapefiles, so I doubt this will, even though they're the WIndows XP of GIS.

 

 

fmelizard
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  • September 19, 2016
annette2 wrote:

You already have one :) https://knowledge.safe.com/content/idea/18772/bring-back-autolayout.html

Actually, autolayout is making a comeback in FME 2017. The betas will have it shortly. But thanks for remembering it!

 

darkspatiallord
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FME Functions and Factories...oh wait that was in Hans answer about Classic mode

srg
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  • September 20, 2016
srg wrote:

I think Safe Software was early to adopt this trend in FME (the new iPhone 7 launches later this week with one very obvious feature removed: the headphone socket!, including the AirPods).

Here is the proof:srg-fmeheadphonesocket.jpg

Hope this is acceptable and agreeable to everyone!

Just learnt that years before the iPhone 7, the Game Boy Advance SP (Nintendo) eschewed the standard as well

 

 

bruceharold
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  • September 27, 2016

Remove Python 2.

fmelizard
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  • September 28, 2016
bruceharold wrote:

Remove Python 2.

It is on the roadmap! Well, at least stopping supporting it...

 

 

ngoorman
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  • August 14, 2018
ngoorman wrote:
Nothing in the past 15 years has stopped people from using shapefiles, so I doubt this will, even though they're the WIndows XP of GIS.

 

 

It's been two years since my above comment and nothing has changed :p Various specialised tools like noise modelling software only take shapefile input, so as long as that does not change...

 

 

fmelizard
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  • August 15, 2018
bruceharold wrote:

Remove Python 2.

Hmm, FME 2019 will go quite a ways down this path...

 

 

fmelizard
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  • August 15, 2018
jdh wrote:
I can make all sort of replies about the relative responsiveness of Safe's development team to the community and Apple's.

 

 

But I'll just say that I'm quite happy with Safe. There's just that one promise Don made at the FMEUC2014 about focal analysis tools that never materialized...

 

 

Hey, I think the Convolver may have addressed that. (4 years later...)

 

 

fmelizard
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  • August 15, 2018
ngoorman wrote:
It's been two years since my above comment and nothing has changed :p Various specialised tools like noise modelling software only take shapefile input, so as long as that does not change...

 

 

Heck, since then the Shapefile even has a Twitter account (https://twitter.com/shapefiIe) and a lifetime achievement award (https://twitter.com/FMEchannel/status/874695567410163712)

 

 

jeroen
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  • August 15, 2018

Removing description text in bookmarks and moving it to annotations (looks worse) would be the one that pop up in my mind.

philippeb
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  • August 15, 2018

I think that you could remove entirely Data Inspector. Everyone in here will agree with me, it is useless!

I like the way Apple thinks. After all, they worth 1.02T $US$ !!!

Please take note that every sentence of my post is sarcasm.

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sigtill
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  • August 15, 2018

Remove FME Desktop completely, no local installations. Replace it with a FME WebEditor and a FME WebViewer.

The functionality needed to be ported from FME Desktop to FME WebEditor: 80% - figure out which 20% of FME Desktop is not used, or least used today.

The functionality needed to be ported from FME Inspector to FME WebViewer: Add FFS-reader to a Leaflet/OpenLayers-client to display the data.

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sigtill
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  • August 15, 2018

Remove unused transformers - so the number of transformers decrease in 2019

 

Remove unused formats - so the number of formats decrease in 2019

The real SigTill
sigtill
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  • August 15, 2018

Remove support for any other coordinate system than 4326 :)

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philippeb
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  • August 15, 2018
sigtill wrote:

Remove unused transformers - so the number of transformers decrease in 2019

 

Remove unused formats - so the number of formats decrease in 2019

I would like to work with an older version of FME, the one used in the mid-90s.

 

Make it work on Windows 10 though.

 

 

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