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libpostal is a C library for parsing/normalizing street addresses around the world. Would be cool to use this to prepare addresses for geocoding.https://github.com/openvenues/libpostal
According to the documentations, the @StringLength function has to be equivalent to the StringLengthCalculator transformer. i.e. it should return the number of characters in the given string.StringLength(str) Returns the length of the input string. Equivalent transformer: StringLengthCalculatorhttps://docs.safe.com/fme/html/FME_Desktop_Documentation/FME_Workbench/!Transformer_Parameters/StringFunctions.htmStringLengthCalculator Usage Notes Note that in non-ASCII character sets, the length is the number of actual characters (some or all of which could be multi-byte) in the string, which may not match the number of bytes used to store the string.http://docs.safe.com/fme/2019.0/html/FME_Desktop_Documentation/FME_Transformers/Transformers/stringlengthcalculator.htmHowever, the function could return wrong number if the given string contains muti-byte characters.For example, if the given string was '???' with UTF-8 encoding, the number of characters should be 3 and the StringLengthCalculater returns 3 correctly, but the @StringLength function returns 6 on Windows. It seems to return the number of bytes, but the correct number of bytes is 9 for the string with UTF-8. That is, 6 is not either number of characters or number of bytes.I think the implementation of the function should be fixed so that it exactly complies with the documentations, i.e. always returns the number of characters as well as the StringLengthCalculator.
Would be GREAT to have a matrix and search similar to this: https://www.safe.com/fme/formats-matrix/#! - BUT it shows which GEOMETRY types are supported for READING and WRITING for each format. For instance that SHAPE can read POINT,LINE,AREA and WRITE POINT,LINE,AREA but not SURFACE or MESH.When working with different kinds of 3D-formats you often need to convert between "similar" 3D-objects and it might be difficult to find the right 3D-format.
Hey guys,The map info extended writers write speeds are excruciatingly slow. It is taking nearly 2 days to write 2 million features. This is to the point where I have written a mapbasic script at the end to convert a mid/mif to mapinfo extended rather than writing to mapinfo extended in FME. This is a pretty ugly thing to do. Regards,James
It happens frequently that we would like to ensure that a workspace in FME Server runs only once or want to limit a workspace from taking all resources. Tagging engines is useful but is limited and in most cases doesn't deliver the real optimal result. If workspaces or repositories would have the advanced option to define the maximum instances that can run simultaneously or/and the option how long they can stay in the queue a lot of these weaknessess could be removed.
For the workspaces published on the FME server, a setting would be good, with which you can choose that this workspace can only be started if it is currently not running. So a parallel execution can be prevented. Thus, when using multiple engines can be prevented that the workspace is carried out in parallel and thereby disturb themselves. Even using just one engine, it may make sense to stop this process from queuing up.
When you've run a Workspace with multiple Writers with multiple FeatureTypes, it would be great if you could window select all the FeatureTypes you want to inspect and then either right-click to Inspect or activate the FeatureTypes toolbar popup to be relevant to all FeatureTypes that have been selected.
Option to choose and set glTF appearance/shading setting for Cesium 3d Tiles writerFor example, options to set metallic factors, roughness factors etc. Or option to choose if for example "KHR_materials_unlit" extension is used. Materials unlit extension would improve appearance especially for buildings with image textures. Now buildings with image textures tend to get too dark because of the shading, and changing these settings manually is time consuming and difficult.
With normal writer, You can duplicate the Feature Type. But in thenFeatureWriter, You can not do it. Sometimes, Different Featrue Type have the same attributes, just different Geometry, The duplicate function will be very useful. I hope add duplicate Feature Type to FeatureWriter.
Would be useful if there was an option to save a copy of a workspace. Sometimes I like to back them up before I get REALLY crazy (i.e. try a different method, transformer, parameters, etc.) and don't want to press Ctrl/Cmd+Z a bunch of times.
Zwift.com provides a VR for riding bikes on trainers. There are many times I'd love to "relive" the biking experience after the fact. For example, I was dying on a hill one day. I went to work the next day to download open source DEMs and see just how bad that hill really was. Zwift rides can be downloaded in *.fit files.
Please add support for GeoSciML__If you are interested in FME adding support for this format, please provide us with more information by voting and describing your use case!
***Note from Migration:*** Original Title was: Provide setting to allow transformers to be expanded horizontally by default so their complete name is readable I have no idea if this is just me but I make sure the name of every transformer is completely visible. For transformers with longer names, this requires me to double click the right side expanding it so the complete name is readable. Can't this functionality be default when adding a transformer to the workspace?
Adding a background mapAdding a background map could be done straight in the Data Inspector main UI. Now it's a bit tedious to go to Tools > FME Options and set the background map there.Multiple background mapsAt the moment, you can have only 1 background map at a time in Data Inspector. There should be a possibility to add several background maps to the same view.Background map opacityNow background maps are lacking opacity control.Save background map for later useWhen you change your background map settings, the previous background map is gone. It should be possible to save the settings in the same way you can do for Database Connections.These problems occurred, when I was setting a WMS background map. I changed it later to a different background map, but wanted to go back to the WMS background map. I had to set all the WMS parameters again.
In the current ChangeDetector, Original Unchanged and Original Deleted features have Ports, while Revised Added features also have a port. Can we please have a "Revised Unchanged" port added?This is because the ChangeDetector can be used for just some attributes, rather than all attributes, meaning it may be testing a range of scenarios, yet we lose the "Revised Unchanged" features by using the transformer, and this may be the subset we want.
Not just the current "Feature Information" windows which can be used in Debugging, but Inspectors would pop up. (This is the so-called Frankenbench showed at the FME UC)
I've been using a competitors product a bit of late and one great feature it has that makes FME very frustrating is how long inspectors take to open . Often all you need is a couple of data rows to decide what you want to do and the alternative product allows you to click on any transform post run and INSTANTLY see 1Mb of data for each input and output port. This makes building workspaces so much faster. The sacrifice to make this possible is the configurable 1Mb limit on the data. I can't find a way to come close to this in FME DesktopSo, - When doing a full inspector allow preview of the data that opens very fast.
The latest builds for Mapnik allow for Vector tiles services for map services. Would it be possible to set something up using FME server and this technology? Currently the WMS and WFS feeds using FME server are a little clunky to use and quite slow.
Currently there is no facility to change the FME Cloud account URL after creating the account. Even though the documentation here suggests that the account URL can be altered by changing the Account Name, it doesn't work properly. eg: if the current URL is https://<instance name>-<base url 1>.fmecloud.safe.com and if we need to change it to https://<instance name>-<base url 2>.fmecloud.safe.com Therefore, it is worth to add the capability of changing the account URL at least for instances launched after the changes. It is awesome if the changes to URL can be applied to all the instances including existing instances.
The current credentials file that can be downloaded after an FME Cloud instance has been created only contains usernames and passwords. It would be useful if the instance url is in there too (I just had to pass 12 sets of credentials to trainees...)
I see that the Database Joiner transformer only supports the Open API for file geodatabase, it would be useful if it suppported ArcObjects as well.To flesh this out a little more, basically allowing the same functionality as the ArcObjects reader when bringing in a file gdb table in this tranasformer would be useful. Of coruse the workaround is to add a reader and feature merger, but the functionality in the single transformer would be useful.
What I really love in the new versions of FME is the 'Attribute Tree'. This occurs if you place a . (dot) into a attribute name. It is a great way to group attributes (from different streams) into sub groups.For example in this project I have global parameters that are generated in the beginning and used in every feature.If I create a new attribute before this transfomer, all AttributeKeepers need to be adjusted. It would really help to wildcard these groups, because I know I need all my "global." attributes.So a small toggle on the main group with 3 modes:- empty (no childs)- block (some childs)- circle? keep all childs, without having to reselect when a new one is added to the groupThe last option would be a dynamic selection. For example: keep all " _global.* " attributes
I'm interested in reading data from Bentley's new Open-source JavaScript library, iModeljs.Hi FME Users, If you are also interested in FME adding support for this format, feel free to provide us more information by voting and describing your use case!
It would be nice to enabel/disable the filled background for every bookmark in the properties seperately.In this way the user would have more possibilities to design a complex workspace more clearly. For example, some bookmarks could be displayed with a fill color and others without.At the moment you can only generally set whether the bookmarks should be displayed with filling colors or without a filling color.
You could read the images that are inside a tab of an excel file
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