Hello everyone.
Apologies for the lack of what's up Wednesday last week. It just means there is more to share this time!
FME Community Survey
Are you a member of the FME Community? By "community" I don't just mean this particular site; it could be any site where FME is discussed, such as Twitter, Slack, Reddit, or YouTube even.
Basically, if you talk FME or interact with any other users online, I'd be really grateful if you took a survey on the current state of the community. I'm working on improving our community offerings, and this survey will help to guide much of what I'm doing.
The survey is available online until October 1st, 2021. Thanks 🙂
Recent Tweets
On the subject of community, I wanted to give a shoutout to Safe partner Red Geographics, who are celebrating their 17th anniversary today.
So congratulations to Community Champion Hans and his team for their excellent FME work.
Also on Twitter, partner IMGS mentions their upcoming FME Intelligence Virtual Event for FME users across all of Ireland.
And here is a neat thread showing the power of the PointOnAreaOverlayer in FME.
2022 Betas Online Now!
As @Dale Lutz recently tweeted, the FME 2022 beta versions are now available online.
Of course - as the note mentions - it's not wise to use these for production work, but they're a fascinating way to get a glimpse of what's coming up next year. As always, get them from safe.com/downloads
Upcoming Webinars
It's September already (how did that happen?) and we've got a great webinar lineup as usual. Perhaps the most popular one will be an AMA (Ask Me Anything) session on using FME with Esri products.
That one has a really top-class lineup of Safers, so don't miss it. My eye was also attracted to webinars on metadata and Lidar, perhaps because I still have a lot to learn in those fields.
Anyway, find the full list of upcoming events on our website.
Community Activity
I noticed a few things of interest going on in the community during the last two weeks.
On the hub, I see that the BANGeocoder (a geocoder for France) got a recent update. The transformer history shows that Geonov does update this on a regular basis, which is great to see. Since it's early in a new month, there will be a new hub digest coming out soon. If you aren't signed up for monthly digests, there's an option under your account settings:
In the Ideas section, I noticed that a few Ideas about the Clipper transformer got their status changed to Under Development. For example, an idea on clipping surfaces, an idea on clipping meshes, an idea on clipping in 3D to create floorplans, and an idea on better handling of overlapping clippers.
There's also a change in status to In Beta for a 3D dissolver transformer (we're calling it the SolidDissolver) so that's another reason to give the 2022 beta a spin. Plus, although the status hasn't changed, I hear that an idea on Geodatabase writing is being closely looked at by our developers.
And finally, on the Knowledge Base, I see updates to articles on FME Server Security, on Inspire GML reading and writing, on the Python for FME Tutorial, and in the Known Issues in FME 2021.x article.
Remember, there's a big Follow button that you can press to get updates on articles that are important to you!
I think that's it for FME news this week. Be sure to go back to the top and click on the link for the FME Community survey!