Transformers

How would one create a new line that lies right in the middle between two existing lines? Imagine that we have the blue and pink lines below, they are parallel but not identical, and we want to find the centre (doted) line between them.  I was thinking one could AreaBuild the lines and then chop the resulting polygon into shorter segments, use a CentrePointReplacer on the segments and then finally connect the points. But before I dive down that rabbit hole I was wondering if there was a more efficient method to achieve this? 

I want to write some 50000 features to Excel with fanout enabled by some attributes.One of the fanouts contains 23487 features and fails the workspace with the message Error running translation with 8179 features inputted to the writer. If I filter it out the remaining 118 fanout files get written to disk.I tried both normal writer and FeatureWriter. I have attached the workspace.I started with FME 2021.1.3 and updated to 2021.2.0.1

Attached is a testkit with a raster (geotiff 10mx10m), 3 overlayered polygons and workspace. I would expect that if I clip the given raster with the smaller polygon the raster sum would be smaller. Clipping with a larger polygon (which contains the smaller polygon) would yield a larger rastersum. The polygon named T20 in contained within T100 - but the rastersum is larger for T20 than for T100 - if the cellsize is 7 or 10m.The last transformer calculates the ratio on the rastersums between the different clips, and there doesn't seem to be any pattern.   

I have a dataset containing fields representing year and shape length and would like to know how to sum the shape length based on different ranges of years. For example, if I had years 2010- 2020 how would I get the following? 2010 = sum of shape length 2010 2011 = sum of shape length for 2010 and 2011 2012 = sum of shape length for 2010,2011, and 2012and so on up to 2020.  For reference, please see the attached image of my data set.  I've attempted to work this out using test filter using the "IN RANGE" operator but it seems to filter out the values for each consecutive year. Would creating a new field using a combination of math functions and string functions within Text editor in attribute manager be a better method?

Hello everyone, So I have many points and lines in my data set. I would like to extract those points that are not on/touch the lines.  May I ask how I can do that? Thank you and sorry for all the questions. 

Hello there,​So I have a list of data - Floor and units. For the units, it could have more than one categories (with space to seperate different categories). And I have a excel list that shows all the categories.What I can ​to do is to check all the Units are within the excel table categories. Might I ask how to do it? Since there could be several cateogries in one unit, I am not sure how what transformer I should use to solve my problem. Data:Floor UnitsG/F Lobby1/F Office Toliet Excel:TypeLobbyOfficeTolietBathroom Thank you for your help!

Hi, I am new to FME. I have a Mapinfo TAB file from UK Mastermaps which contains the map text ( housenumber, streets etc). I would like to conert it to gdb annotations to be used in arcgis.

Hi, I have a polygon layer that represents the building footprint (attribute: building id). In .csv I have a list of apartments (attributes: building id, Apartman id). One building consists of x apartments. So, I need to x duplicates of the building footprint and each clone needs to have a different apartment id. I used the FeatureMerger to join shp and csv and clon to create duplicates of geometry but all duplicates have the same apartment id.

Hi everyone. I have 2 gml files and want to replace some buildings from one of them in the other one using their gml id. I tried feature joiner, but it doesn't work. Can somebody helps me with that? Many thanks in advance

convert Using XML hierarcy(parent-child id) to relational database(postgresql) tables

Hello,  I use one featureReader to load Oracle spatial data on my workspace. How can i choose my geometry like the oracle spatial reader ? By defaut fme read the first geometry field.  Thank you

As an example, in Excel you would use the filter function and select specific values from the drop down menu across multiple columns. How in FME do you filter rows of data based on attributes held in multiple columns? I've looked at the two SQL translators; SQLCreator and SQLExcuter but both need connecting directly to a database. In my case I need to use the transformer within my workflow. Thanks.

Hi FME Community,I have a column with number. I want to add a dot to the last three numbers.the pictures show what I expect as a result:what I have:Thanks in advance :)

Hi, We have an FME workbench to extract features from PostGIS, run through a GeometryValidator to identify and repair features, then written to an ESRI geodatabase. However when loading features from the Geodatabase in ArcMap, some features are prevented from loading due to geometry errors, such as self intersects. Is there a way to configure FME to match the geometry validation routine performed by ESRI and if possible repair these?

This is more of a hypothetical question, I don't have a problem that needs solving, but am pondering the possibilities and limits of FME.What are the strategies to process huge datasets? I would imagine that there is a limit to the resource management that FME can do on its own? At some point the software might need some "help" in order to break down the data in manageable chunks? How is this done? Tiling? Memory management? Renting a super computer? Etc?Trying to think of an example I came up with the following idea. How would one go about generalizing the contour lines for a whole country in one run without watching life go by? Please note that I am not asking about how to generalize, my question is what strategies there are to speed up huge processing operations similar to the example above?

I have a workspace where I have lines that are clearly duplicated but the matcher does not identify them because the coordinates are flipped on one versus the other. Is there a way to identify duplicate geometries for lines regardless of whether the coordinates are flipped. For example: Line 1Coordinate 0 = 1973175.975504196, 1785187.3988771015Coordinate 1 = 1973164.445329631, 1784950.337012621 Line 2Coordinate 0 = 1973164.445329631, 1784950.337012621Coordinate 1 = 1973175.975504196, 1785187.3988771015 Both lines are identical, however the direction of one is different from the other. So how can I eliminate one of these based solely on geometry.

A tool in FME to remove duplicates,  I couldn’t figure out which tool can remove duplicates. For example, in case we have two lines that are identical (one on top of another), then which tools can remove this duplicate?  For example, in the screenshot below we have 4 lines that are identical, then how to remove three of them and to leave one?    Thank you  Best  Jamal

Dear FME community,I have a question concerning the FME workspace runner. I have a workspace with 5 different inputs. The goal is to create geospatial PDFs. Each of the inputs represents a different layer of the geospatial PDF. Now I know that the workspace runner will import the inputs once at a time. The problem is now that in the 5 input-folders have each a different number of files. This means that at the end not every PDF will have the same number of layers. How can I guarantee that the workspace runner selects the right inputs? I have named the input files exactly the same, but they are in different folders. So it would probably be easy to just compare the base names.  I would be very happy, if somebody could help me with this. Thank you so much in advance! With kind regardsChristian

HelloI am having trouble extracting attributes from a kml for the features that have photos.I am using XQuery similar to this example https://community.safe.com/s/question/0D54Q0000848CTkSAM/extracting-information-from-different-folders-in-kml-to-convert-to-the-shapefile That method works for the features that don't have photos but the features that have photos seem to have a extra section in the HTML that is causing my XQuery to fail. The Xquery I am using is : declare default element namespace "http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";for $x in /html/body/table/tr/td/table/trreturn fme:set-attribute($x/td[1]/text(),$x/td[2]/text()) I am pretty sure I just need to modify the Xquery 

Hi. Create a pyramid. Easy.How I could extract only the most dense level without processing all others levels?

The features are a subset of US Census tracts, and a handful of them have multi-part geometries that do not share a boundary. My goal is to treat these multi-part geometries as a single unit based on the unique ID (FIPS code) for each tract.

Hi,The problem I'm trying to solve is as follows:I have about 2,000 aerial imagery ECW files, averaging in size around 30MB (so around 60GB in total).Each of the files cover 1km x 1km on the ground at a resolution of 10cm, so are 10,000px x 10,000px.I have been asked to downsample each file to 2,048px x 2,048px and output the results as a series of 4km x 4km tiles (each tile being 8,192px x 8,192px).I have an index feature class that lists each 'FileName' and its corresponding 'Tile' attribute.I've attached an image that shows this spatially, below.Large black squares and number labels represent the tiles that I want to output. The coloured squares with red outlines represent the original files.Previously, when working with a much smaller amount of data, I've been able to use my index feature class, in conjunction with a StringConcatenater, to provide the full path of each file to an 'ER Mapper ECW' FeatureReader.From there, I used RasterResampler an

Have two workspaces that when I run it under my account or the service account on the server, it runs fine, published to FME Server and set up automation. It APPEARS to run (one workspace checks for the latest zip file in a directory on a file share and then copies to the resources directory and unzips on the server - this works as it should under both accounts and in FME server when run separately thru Run Workspace). The second workspace is to process the data that was unzipped and place in the resources directory - the files are separated into two directories due to how the vendor supplies the data for download - the script will read this data via either account. It will operate as expected when run with Workbench. Running via Server it processes, but when I look at the output data, not all of it is there! The csv files appear to be appending to the tables in the SDE. The graphic data doesn't even show that it attempted to write to the feature class. I'm stumped. The graph

Hi everyone, I am trying to download a set of files with the AutodeskBIM360DocsConnector and save them to a temporary location. The temp location is generated with the TempPathCreator. The BIM 360 connector does not have the option to pick an attribute for the "Download to Folder" parameter. Typing out @Value(DownloadLocation) seems to trigger FME to recognize that I want to use an attribute value, however during translation the attribute value is ignored and instead FME uses the string I typed in i.e. it creates a map named "@Value(DownloadFolder)".