Question of the Week: Using FME For Good

I have not yet used FME for any charitable organizations, however I have started participating with Search and Rescue both on a team and as a part of a SaR GIS group. I think that FME could play some role in the future with that.

Yes, on a daily basis. I work for an NGO, we are a nature conservation and cultural heritage association, and as such are a registered charity. So all my work with FME these days (since 2017) is for charity.

Except some of the stuff I used to do on my home use license, that is more personal stuff - although that does usually help me in my work (GPS data for example).

I don’t think I’ve ever done anything directly for charitable organisations, but I have used FME to work on datasets that would eventually be released as open data in some form (such as QA on the Natural Earth Vector dataset)

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A lot of our work with FME definitely would fall under the “Using FME for good!” as it is key to processing data for our disaster response and recovery efforts. We experience cyclones, floods and bushfires on a regular basis and FME has helped streamline our disaster support activation process, getting help to our agricultural sector a lot quicker than before.

Not so much work for charitable organisations at the moment.. But it does sound interesting to work with search and rescue like liamfez mentions above!