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Hello, I am a researcher working on Digital Cartography. I am new to FME and I have been trying to convert an Esri Shapefile into VPF coverage (Vector Product Format). But it seems that the FME can read VPF coverage but cannot write that. Instead FME writes VPF database which I do not want. Any useful insights on how can I write VPF coverage using FME would be highly appreciable and helpful for my research.

Hi I am quite new to FME and just posting my first question here :)How can I merge intersected polygons within one feature class?Only other requirement is I only want to merge the ones which have the same attribute value in one field.Thanks!

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I've recently come across a number of these files that look like they are from the early 1990s. AutoCAD can open them, but I was hoping to batch convert them into either TIF or PDF format. I used a Data File Reader, set to binary and found that the first 4 bytes describe the dimensions of the image, but after that, I'm stuck.

How would You make a workspace that does this? If it is fast and can do very large datsets it is definitely a big plus...Se also https://knowledge.safe.com/idea/46222/new-interpolation-type-maximum-in-rasterresampler.html

Hello everybody,in my workbench the scale of an output raster type feature should depend on an attribute RADIUS, which is defined as a numeric published parameter the user can manipulate. I realized that with a private parameter which is defined through a python script as you see below. I set the default value of the RADIUS attribute to '500' so the scale should be '4000'... But the script returns the value '15000'. I also tried to return just the value of the RADIUS itself in this script to test if the RADIUS value is still setted to 500 when the python script is running and it is! And the RADIUS attribute is definitely numeric. It has the type 'Number'. What could be the problem? I don't really know what to do.Best regards,Felixscale=0if (FME_MacroValues['RADIUS'] <= 500):    scale=4000elif (500 < FME_MacroValues['RADIUS'] <= 1000):    scale=8000else:    scale=15000return scale

I have to convert these lat/lng to geom data type, such these lat/lng are in space (here I have done wrong), Kindly guide how I can convert them (lat,lng) to geometry such that they occur in space. Thank you

Hi,I'm merging a DGN file with excel table writing into a SHP (feature type definition 'import from Dataset' - I used a template given to me)The excel table contains date, I've used DateFormater- DestinationDateFormat: %d"/"%m"/"%Y, it looks like it should work and it is working when I run the workspace redirected for FME Data Inspector, dated are coming up perfect, fields with no no date have <missing> instead.When I view the SHP in Data Inspector as to 'open a dataset in a new view' dates are missing as they are missing when I view in in ArcGIS.How to make it the date viable?I've tried the FeatureWriter, dynamic properties and used the template .shp a s schema definition, that doesn't work either.Would anybody have any idea why the date is so difficult to write into a SHP? I use FME Desktop 2016.1.3.Would the proper XML workspace exported from GDB help? There is a .shp.xml given to me within the shapefile template anyway.Kamil

Hello Team,I need to make the update process inside a existing zipfile. The zipfile contain a shapefile and i would like to create a CSV file inside this Zipfile.When i execute my Workspace the FME included the CSV file inside Zipfile, but the other data ( Shapefile ) is deleted.My problem: How can i just include more file in Zipfile without delete others files included before?Version of FME Desktop: 2016.1.3.1 ( Build 16716 ).Attached my Workspace.Thanks in Advance,

Hi, I'm trying to transfer attributes from an 'inaccurate' set of points to another 'accurate' one, however I'd like to limit canditates (or bases) to have a 1 to 1 relationship where if a candidate was already found as nearest neighbour to a base, then it is 'taken out of the pool' and not found again for another base.In example below, I want to match A to 1 and B to 2, however 1 is closest to A and B thus gets assigned twice. If I change ports (Base<>Candidate) then I got opposite: 1 and 2 is assigned to B.Is there a way of saying; if you already found A~1 then 1 is out of the pool and B~2 ?Points have no common attributes to use for grouping by and there is 100's of thousands of those, hence finding nearest neighbour by location to assign correct attributes from incorrect geometry.

Hi,I am having problem to find a suitable way to normalise Street Name in my geodatabase.Example of Street Name to be normalised;Example List of abbrivations to search and replace;Any idea how to solve it either with a transformer or Python Script.Many Thanks!Abdul

Hello, I have one question regarding conversion 3D city from SHAPEFILE to CityGML.I have more classes of objects (vegetation, cityfurniture, buildings, ...). I would like to ask how can I follow the structure of creating _AbstractClasses in FME workspace? How can I create abstract features and use them as gml_parent_id in those features which are in the hierarchy down below? Thank You Michal

It would seem that Tiles can be made of complete RGB-data (FMERGB24Tile for instance), but the getTile() method seems to be available from FMEBand only, which in turn will only contain a single color channel, as generated from FMERaster.getBand(). Is there some elegant way to generate an FMERGB24Tile from an input raster?

I'm using the PDFPageFormatter to make a PDF with different elements - including a map from a WMS-service. It's easy to use the transformer, but the map gets very blurry. Why, I don't know, so I hope that someone can help me.

Hi, I have some trouble when I want export the custom properties of a Revit file. After exporting in rvz with the "Export Revit property sets" checked, I can see them when I open it in the inspector, but I can't access them in the workbench, or export the properties in a csv (with the ID I could reaggregate the data).Could you help me ?

Hi,Does anyone know why FME server is unable to handle an SDE connection file with OS authentication? I have several FME desktop workspaces using OS Authentication and I publish it to FME server and run my FME Job Submitter service. I also have the conection file uploaded, but somehow during translation it fails to utilize/recognise the SDE connection which is setup with OS Authentication. On the other hand, the windows server where FME Server is installed has ArcGIS Desktop installed too and I am able to connect to the database using the OS authentication SDE connection file.

Documentation for SECURITY_LOGIN_TYPE in FME Server 2016 says:"Identifies the authentication (login) method to use: database, activedirectory, or custom"What does "custom" mean? We would like to user Active Directory AND database authentication if possible. This would allow us to create users with passwords that don't expire, unlike with Active Directory account.Thanks

Hi, is it possible to convert HTML page to jpg file.Thank you, cheers.

Good morning.I have the XML file of an ATOM feed. That XML has to be updated every time the resources provided by that service are updated. Several dates must be changed.My first approach is read the XML with the XML reader, calculate the current data, modify the XML using the XMLTemplater and wirting the same XML file using the Text File reader (with "Overwrite" set to YES)..The process reads the C:/ATOM_feed.xml, edits it and writes the file C:/ATOM_feed.xml.This doesn't work:"Error opening dataset 'Text File' for writing, ensure that file path and permissions allow for writing".I guess it makes sense.So, in order to avoid this, I have used "Creator" to create a feature with an attribute "join" set to "A". I have added the same attribute to the feed from the XML Reader and I have perfomed a Merge using "FeatureMerger" (Requestor = new feature, Supplier = XML). That way I can read and write the same XML file. The

Hi all,  This might be completely in the world of fantasy! I've programmed FME to produce a MapInfo table (using MFAL writer) containing points at 25m intervals along road centres (using Ordnance Survey's ITN data), each point contains a URL including Long/Lat coordinates so that I can invoke Google Street View.  In MapInfo, I need to add the Hotlinking capability after FME so that the URLs can be read and linked to. I've looked at the tab header file (in Notepad) and it seems to need a few lines of code at the bottom of it. I was thinking, could I program FME to add this automatically? Has anyone thought about this before? Perhaps this is beyond the use of FME. The closest way I could think of would be to create a text file and write the specific text to it then replace the actual .tab file component in Windows Explorer but it wouldn't be a tidy process.  Regards,  Ian

Hi,I have a FME workbench that uses a HTTP caller to download 350 URLs. I then have a CSV file of 67 URLs that I need to download from this 350. I'm wondering is there a way to use a AttributeFilter or Tester etc. to only download these 67 and not the total number. I hope this makes sense. Thanks.

How can I download a file from Box.com, Google Drive, OneDrive or S3 by using the file name instead of the id?

What is the format for the SELECT option? I cannot get this to work, it has to be empty. I expected it to be something like: column1, column2but that gives an error

I have created a vector grid consisting of polygons with size 0.00027778 degrees (around 30m). The polygons have a value which represents the number of people living whithin it. Naturally, lots of polygons will have zero inhabitants. These polygons are filtered out. I want to convert this grid to a raster grid with each raster cell matching the vector polygons exactly. The "missing" polygons with zero inhabitants should result in a NoData raster cell.I'm feeding the polygons into NumericRasterizer, using the exact same cellsize as with the polygons. It seems that what I'm trying to do is possible. However, in the northern parts of my grid, there are raster cells which should be NoData, but instead they have taken the value of the cell above it. The image shows comparison of polygons (red outline) and raster cells:In the northern part of the image, all raster cells have a "twin" directly below them which should be NoData and thus invisible. Everything to the

Hi,Yet another newbie here.I am just wondering if its possible to change writers output in some quick way (drop down list, etc).let me explain... I have an excel spreadsheet and 13+ feature classes (ArcGIS 10.3.1) I am using FeatureMerger to join the table with every single feature class (not always basing on the same common field). So far so good, it is working fine but sometimes i need to change an storing location, eg. output1: local test area, output2: internal server (SDE), output3: external server (SDE). How to change the output locations all at once. At the moment i have 13 writers and i don't want to change each of them every time and i don't want to create workbenches for each of the potential outputs. How to do that? Thanks,