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Hi all!In Sweden it is common to use the program SBG Geo to create, edit and share surveying data. Unfortunately, FME does not support the format .geo so far.Me and my swedish collegues would appreciate if you could add this format.Thanks in advance!
Is it possible to create a favorites list for Coordinate Systems? This makes that you don't have to scroll the whole list every time in order to find/select the system you work in often. Works great for me in ArcGIS.
It would be nice if you could use the FME Server Web UI to also test a topic containing a JSON array, like:{"name":"John","age":30,"cars":["Ford", "BMW", "Fiat"]}.Currently an error is returned:Unexpected value "["Ford","BMW","Fiat"]" for message "cars," expected scalar.The workaround now is to use FME Desktop with a FMEServerNotifier.
Using a json web token (JWT Token) to do authentification in FME Server.
Ability to control what is labelled from the NLPClassifier. For example set a threshold to not label features below a certain confidence level.
Hello all,The ESRI ArcGIS Portal API for featureservices supports query-ing a specific HistoricMoment (see the HistoricMoment parameter in the documentation) of course when History is enabled in the service.Currently the Portal reader does support Branch versioning, but not this HistoricMoment capabilities.To me it would be a great upgrade to the reader. The ArcGIS SDE reader has had this for decades, and as this is fading out of use in favor of the new service based architecture of ESRI products, the need arises more and more in my workflows.I've been able to pull it of with a custom transformer consisting of a motherload of HTTPCallers and JSON related transformers. That also solves my disable SSL verification problem, but is not as elegant and maintainable as a proper Safe supported native reader.
Currently, the DataDownload, DataStreaming & DataUpload services have their own API: DataDownload Documentation DataStreaming Documentation DataUpload Documentation The JobSubmitter service is already supported via the FME Server REST API and can be invoked with a set of REST Calls: https://docs.safe.com/fme/html/FME_REST/apidoc/v3/#!/transformations I would be nice if all 3 services (DataDownload, DataStreaming, DataUpload & JobSubmitter) could be invoked via the FME Server REST API to make it easier for developers to leverage the power of FME Server. This would allow for more consistent application development without worrying about different APIs for one product.
Please consider adding support for the new capability of QGIS (3.26+) for using domains in geopackages. See Changelog for QGIS 3.26 for more information. This would bring the handling of domains in geopackages on equal footing with domains in ESRI file geodatabases.
At the moment there is no good way to convert HTML files to PDF in combination with FME Cloud/Server. The standard PDF-options in FME are limited. Especially when styling is important, the PDFPageformatter does not provide enough options. Luckily Safe created the transformer HTML2PDFConvertor several years ago. But this transformer has a big disadvantage: it requires the installation of the wkhtmltopdf.exe. This is not possible using FME cloud. So it would be great if this tool can be integrated in FME. More information about the tool: https://wkhtmltopdf.org/
The File GDB Open API supports reading metadata stored in the geodatabase. For example, you can do `ogrinfo -sql "GetLayerMetadata layerName" my_geodatabase.gdb/` to get the XML data from a certain layer in a geodatabase. However, in FME the FileGeoDatabase Open File API reader does not support this, making this task very complicated or requiring a different reader that is dependent on expensive bloatware.
It would be great if the LineCloser has an option to specify the maximum distance for the line piece that will be created to close the line.An extra good option would be to create an attribute which then lists the distance of the line segment created to close the line.
I've really embraced the FME Server Workspace apps for small 'self service' tasks for people in the organisation to do something themselves in stead of mailing the GIS department.Almost always I want to report something back to the user. I use a streaming service and a html-writer for that. But that takes the user away from the app.Would it be possible to add something like an iframe capability to the app, to which the results of a workspace can be streamed?Kind regards,Martin
It would be nice if you could use create test conditions that look at adjacent features within the tester/test filter instead of having to use the attribute creator followed by a tester
It can be tricky to see where log-jams are in complex workspaces - a simple charting tool that parses the log window and provides quick visualisation such as a histogram:x axis = transformer namey axis = sum of time elapsedwould be helpful. could be expanded in future to be a ticker tape as the translation runs to include CPU usage etc
Is it possible for the HTTPCaller to adapt it so all Receiving Header Information is stored in an AttributeList. I have had multiple times that I wanted to control the Cookie information that is send. But there is no way to inspect what cookie information is received. It is very hard to debug HTTPCaller errors if you don't know exactly what is send and received. Now I have to debug using Postman.
Handle blocks better:https://community.safe.com/s/question/0D5Dm00000CUPQPKA5/how-to-get-autocad-block-visibility-state-more-efficientWould like some kind of WYSIWYG settings, that reads all Geometry the way it is shown to the Autocad User.Able to write features colored ByLayer not by Feature. Write Layer settings to set ByLayer color.Suggestion: AutocadBlockReader that works like a DatabaseJoiner. Input autocad_entity_handle from the autocad_insert feature and output the Exploded Block Geometry. This way there is more controle over the blocks to explode.
I want to make a point on FME handling of memory ressources and why I think it is not optimum. I am referring to Windows environment (as I have no experience with FME on other OS)In the frist part of any FME log file some remarks can be found about how much physical and virtual memory it available and what limits will be used by FME for start/stop of requiring/freeing memory.As described here(https://community.safe.com/s/article/Performance-Tuning-FME-FME-Memory-Management) FME will decide ressource usage depending on virtual memory available.I think this is counter-productive in situations when more than one large FME process will fight for the same limited amount of memory.In practise I see windows machines with 64Gb physical memory and 264Gb virtual memory quite often. In such an environment we run 3-4 very large FME processes in parallel and each one thinks 264Gb is available, which is not true of course. We run into serious performance issues in this way, with physical memory completely used (99%) and hanging fme processes, as this relies on OS swapping, which is very bad on Windows.This does not occur, if the virtual memory is reconfigured to be only a little larger than physical memory. So we have to advice our power customers to reconfigure their Windows System for small extra virtual memory only because FME is following a "strange" memory policy.This is an undesirable situation, which cannot be followed in every customer situation as other applications may need the large extra virtual memory configuration.So I want to really question the fact, why FME is optimizing memory usage based on virtual memory and not on physical memory. Maybe a suggestion could be to influence the memroy policy to stay closer to the physical than the virtual limit by some parameter/environment variable or whatever.Repeating myself: What I want to avoid is to tell our customers that they need to reconfigure their Windows OS setting only due to FME reasons.
It would be very helpfull to have support voor the QUERY method in the HTTPCallerhttps://horovits.medium.com/http-s-new-method-for-data-apis-http-query-1ff71e6f73f3I'm specifically working with a Linked Data Apache Jena Fuseki triple store with a REST API and it would be nice to be able use the s-query method (and not escape all special characters for URL encoding).
FME Server prodive a filter function in the Jobs menu. It's possible to filter by the Job Status. In a normal situation I expect that if a workspace run until end I've a SUCCESS status.For some reasons is usefull to add LogMessage transformer for logging information during the execution of the job as warnings and error. It could be interesting to filter jobs by LogMessage type as warnings and errors even their status is SUCCESS.Thanks
The CSV reader supports selecting a Date Input Format from a pulldown or custom format you enter. Frequently multiple date formats are within one CSV file or even within one attribute column, please support allowing a set of formats, say pipe delimited, and to retain bulk mode processing when multiple date formats are specified. How about pipe delimited like: %m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S %p|%m/%d/%Y
A feature similar to the HTTPCaller's 'rate limiting' options may be very useful for reading features from feature services. We very often get failures when reading feature services, when the feature service throws an error about 'Too many requests, API calls quota exceeded'. I've had to work around this by stringing together multiple FeatureReaders with Decelerators between them. These read 6000 features, then a Decelerator has the workspace pause for 65 seconds, then read the next 6000, so on and so forth. It'd be awesome if instead of this clunky workaround, we'd be able to just configure the FeatureReader/reader to only read a maximum of 6000 features per minute, or something along those lines.
With the release of FME 2022 the 3DTiles writer contains the option to generate a texture atlas for each model. This is really great functionality and something I've been wanting to see for a while.It would be great to see this functionally extended to all 3D Formats - Alternatively a transformer such and an "AppearenceMerger" or "TextureAtlasGenerator" would be really helpful.
GeometryReplacer has an option for "EncodedPolyline". This supports polylines encoded to Google's documented 5 decimal places. But I have a polyline encoded to 6 decimal places, and so had to use PythonCaller and some ugly hacks to get a WKT formatted polyline.Why am I using 6 decimal places? I'm using the Valhalla open-source routing engine for OpenStreetMap (https://valhalla.github.io/valhalla/).Valhalla's reasoning for using 6 decimal places is documented at https://valhalla.github.io/valhalla/decoding/I used the Python script in FME to get my decoded polylines, but would prefer an option in the GeometryReplacer for "Encoded Polyline 6dp" below "Encoded Polyline"Their demo tool at https://valhalla.github.io/demos/polyline/ is useful in debugging.Here's a random 6dp encoded polyline:zsyo}@{cobaH??_KtDiHn@{HjHaMtDyOlHmI_AyL}HbGyt@jDwTHsc@tCsBw^pMgl@dFi_@j@}UlDw_@rCaKrQy[PmFdU{p@fZqx@pFuOfCiIVeCBkBAyBOkA{AcB}CyB}AaAgEyAqr@a]wdAmf@aJcCoHa@oIrAqIzDkGpDiF~DuB`B{B`As@~A CJnDDhDKxFN|EBfHeRjyCeIhjAiCfWmCdNk`mA}Jfa@cFrb@sHniA_EhU}EzReMre@}Lhe@kDpRmAbPmC`i@q@jO{IhqBaAlU_ClWkKvs@qAxOWdO`@`K`D|[hHzn@rO||AxHzx@tDlb@hX`nDbAhKnAfLzQhnAtEb]RrRFbF_A|Nc@`HGj@cCpW_AtIoFfh@mHtr@mCrLaD|JuFvIkHhImMnO_LrLiAlAw]|Z{FbF}}@|t@qwCr~BeGvEwSjPkRhOob@x^qm@fl@wObL_JtCqHpAuGZmQqAsDj@}Bf@gDpAEj@FzEXvFbClNrX~|@zDxVzA`N`BdTp@jWg@|kA~SgBbUwErr@kDld@cD~b@e@nFsEzp@sOlsAQbH~BvQNj@Hn@Bn@?n@Cl@In@Oj@Qh@Wf@[`@c@b@N`DmBpK]hEa@nH{DrdAg@bUcAh}@t]eDl}@}@~WqBxh@yJnwDF~Lh@tOf@~S|Af KhrAnGjw@hNnzA~Axa@d@xq@Anh@A`T`A|tCFlTlBb|DXryDr@viBHly@tBd`CX|[`AndAa@~f@]tTYpOy@z]wEz{@iIbaAoJbfAkh@rcGi^l{DeCpNcEdYgGpd@wD`r@sBjq@o`@|lEqNtaBe@xXf@`V~Eb]zGnUvGrPbVvZ|NtLtStKdm@xMd_BdXlr@zLv^dIpOxFfUlO|TdWlJfQfJ|UhPfcArFz_@nJfc@bKvWhNrWvQdV`UdTh|A|sAtk@re@jhYhZ`XfMfLjWp[`Wbc@t`~@bGtdFrYnK`v@tl@zyGhGpr@vDnd@rJ~iAbMjkAbK`y@fe@ntDtPdrAhGnc@zQrfAny@xfD~Rvq@xObl@n[nmA`Orq@hLtn@jPtkAbKf}@~Fdv@xTdsDhInn@jFfZ~Mli@jzAf{Djd@|gCfh@diC|Utq@~b@fz@jh@xz@|h@zz@zWvd@vV|r@zIda@rH|i@zOvmDvAr]xG`aBh[~oGpMncD^pS_AvUuAbTgEbXcGlVoJ~VuLxSwNvQoSnTap@nn@{d@`d@cMvLmm@`m@y[p]eOlTuTx_@av@ttAqX|f@{HnQsGrR{ClO}CtTaCrUaKrfAaLnjA}JxbAe@|EiK`jAsGzw@iDhj@wIvwAiAdW[hPp@fTtCvXnE~TzJzZrLbT`KzMtJzJbWpPzs@~YnP|GxKlHtJjInLdMpLhQhH~MzGzPfUhw@lPdk@hGbV`DlTtAjQZ|ToAv^g_@|uDcIt}@qBdVcAdJ}AnJ}@xH_AtDYxAMpBQfLJXPt@Fx@?x@Iv@Qt@Yn@GLyEhh@_NrdBmErj@mBpVo@be@M~JUvO{@bp@Zld@jBr`@zB|WdEtYjFtZz@|Cn@fBdA~A~GzGn@ @f@h@l@x@fA|@jBn@jBfBRbBFlAAxBOxA]nAe@dAq@~@q@n@s@`@_Ak@JaAFe@?}EzEaCpBiBtBiCxDsE|Dia@xt@qu@vtAax@lwAiMxUeLxVuJnWmI`X_eFn}Ps~DbsLuKz[ge@~yAeUvs@{x@j`C_]zaA_kEpfMyc@xaBoNf`BeC~xBu@`oBdAx]RlEl@jFzAjIt@vAb@`BPfB?hBQfBc@~As@tAaAfAWRmGxr@_BvxByAnkCj_Itj@eVtr@ulAluBq]pu@wN|c@qTvzAgHzsAmZnbGmPj`Cmf@j~Ic@|j@VxbIoYvuMcU~yFgEffAeFtfDs@jmAc@fw@lAx^dHlg@bZthAnY~eBlHdaAv@l[Kb_AuAr|Al@fs@dC`s@xe@~vHlG|p@lJjj@|Mjf@pPhc@di@reAni@vfAxHhS|BdJ~AxJnBrSVpUkAjSmCvSiOlq@kGxVsN`e@iIzPwI`MgL|K}OjJuPrFmSnCcRCwPgBaZmGyYuHkTuEgTiDiQiBsQ}@oS[{SNgOr@oOtAqOpBaOpCcQbE_QrF{MbFuMbG}w@he@ew@pe@koBplAeQjLeOnMaIlIsGdJaP`YaMpoI~^iDvYwEfk@wHlfAycA`uLoHzu@cAjK{g@xbGeAfLoJ|eAQtQKpE@vCBfIBLLr@Dr@At@Ir@Op@Wj@]f@c@^IFYrB]nBiA|Eo@nFgB~Re@fDw@`FUzAG|AFbBd@pCCnDHLbDPdC`ArDnAvDbArEd@zTvB|h@zFlf@rHfrBne@hf@`Mvf@jInsBtX|j@nGpGv@fgExr@rgClp@dd@nRjc@tTvb@xUd`Alq@h{@zw@zt@`x@rs@ro@r`BzfBj`An}Ari@|iAhi@dbB~P~p@zFfX~FnXjDxQtHhc@nLrt@tJvi@~Ido@rM|w@dArFxO`z@x@vD|o@`~CjQpz@z@xFfJtm@|@~H|C|XnBjQb@`E~@nIrGhDpCtE`AbENpGo@|E}DpHwHjDiI]yDsB}CiEaAwCk@mGLkD_BuR_BeScAoGsUesA{Nw{@ke@cwDigoBG[
The LRS functionality in FME need something in the lines of the Calibrate Routes toolbox in ArcGIS.It should have two input ports:POINTSLINESTransformer parameters should include:Group ByTolerance in ground unitsAttribute name containing measure/calibration valueInterpolate between missing calibration points?Extrapolate before calibration points?Extrapolate after calibration points?Output should be line features with measures applied from the point dataset.
Create a Reader and Writer for QGIS Metadata file (QMD) which is a form of XML. We would use this to insert/update our spatial catalogue without scraping data from the QMD files created by our QGIS users.
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