User Spotlights

Does the shape of connection lines in FME Workbench have an effect on the performance of the workspace? You bet!ALL PROOF IS in this video. With square corners, the data is slowed when it reaches the corner. It can become bunched up and affect the performance of each transformer it passes through.Curved lines have a similar effect, although not as severe because their corners aren't as sharp. However, they are longer lines, and so the data takes more time to pass through.Straight lines have the benefit of being the shortest line and having no corners. As you'll see in the video, they are by far the best way to speed up your workspaces.It's not mentioned, but also be careful not to cross connections. Features can collide at the crossing, knocking off some of their vertices or attributes.

We're trying something new - a monthly community leaderboard recap! This will not only celebrate the users on the leaderboard but also highlight those who are active and contributing to the FME Community. Your engagement is what makes this community thrive, and we want to recognize everyone who plays a part.Top Contributors on the FME Community Leaderboard February 2025 Points LeadersWe're excited to recognize the top 10 contributors from our February leaderboard, earning the most points last month:​@danilo_fme  ​@bwn  ​@crutledge  ​@geomancer  ​@nielsgerrits  ​@david_r  ​@ebygomm  ​@liamfez  ​@virtualcitymatt  ​@j.botterill When you ask questions, engage in conversations, and provide answers, you help strengthen our community knowledge base - and earn points. Learn more here.February 2025 Answers LeaderboardThese users provided the most Answers to Forum questions in February:​@bwn  ​@ebygomm  ​@liamfez  ​@j.botterill  ​@redgeographics  ​@worjak  ​@crutledge  ​@nielsgerrits  ​@david_r 

Welcome to our March FME Community User Spotlight! Every month, we’ll be spotlighting a user in the community whose active participation and helpful contributions have been invaluable to the community. We’re excited to highlight their experiences and insights!In anticipation of the Peak of Data & AI 2025 coming up this May, we’ll be featuring speakers from the Peak over the next three months in our spotlights.User Spotlight: Margot D’haemer ​@margotdh What’s your name?Margot D’haemerWhat company do you currently work for? NordendWhat’s your current job role and title? BIM/FME ConsultantTell us more about what you do and how you use FME? Since 2022, I’ve worked for Nordend (a Belgian company). I use FME (Form/Flow) on a daily basis to create data workflows for clients in different fields (government, utilities, and AEC). The assignments range from easy ETL tools to complex geometrical transformations.Why did you join the FME Community?The main reason I joined the community was to as

Welcome to our February FME Community User Spotlight! Every month, we’ll be spotlighting a user in the community whose active participation and helpful contributions have been invaluable to the community. We’re excited to highlight their experiences and insights!User Spotlight: Hans van der Maarel ​@redgeographics What’s your name?Hans van der MaarelWhat company do you currently work for? Red Geographics What’s your current job role and title? OwnerTell us more about what you do and how you use FME? I'm the owner and founder of Red Geographics, a Dutch FME partner. My work with FME is primarily aimed at helping our customers (and the larger community) by thinking up exercises for our training courses, use-cases, proof-of-concepts, tech support and basically lots of clever ways of using FME.Why did you join the FME Community?I joined the first, I guess, incarnation of the FME Community, on Yahoo Groups because I thought it was a good way to get better with FME and help out others at the

Welcome to our January FME Community User Spotlight! Every month, we’ll be spotlighting a user in the community whose active participation and helpful contributions have been invaluable to the community. We’re excited to highlight their experiences and insights!User Spotlight: Danilo de Lima ​@danilo_fme What’s your name?Danilo de LimaWhat company do you currently work for? SolutialWhat’s your current job role and title? Commercial ManagerTell us more about what you do and how you use FME? I started my work with the FME Platform over 18 years ago. At first, I only carried out a few conversions from one format to another. Over time, I reached a high level on the platform, participating in complex integrations and Augmented Reality projects.Currently, I am the Commercial Manager at the company, Solutial. Our company is a reseller here in Brazil and South America.Why did you join the FME Community?Initially, I joined the FME Community to ask some questions. Over the years, I log in every

Welcome to our December FME Community User Spotlight! Every month, we’ll be spotlighting a user in the community whose active participation and helpful contributions have been invaluable to the community. We’re excited to highlight their experiences and insights!User Spotlight: Birgit Ligtvoet ​@birgit What’s your name?Birgit LigtvoetWhat company do you currently work for? BoskalisWhat’s your current job role and title? GIS SpecialistTell us more about what you do and how you use FME? I work in a team of 12 GIS Specialists of which about 3/4 work on providing data to both our colleagues and clients through GIS viewers. I am a little bit more on the technical side of things and I often focus on automating things and  making standard tools for either my direct colleagues or people in the rest of the company. To do this I of course use FME but I also make use of the ArcGIS REST api, the VertiGIS studio suite, the Autodesk construction cloud api and a lot more. Basically, I spend time maki

It’s that time of year again for Advent of Code.I like to attempt it each year using FME (no python callers and no inlinequeriers). Sometimes it ends up easier with FME, sometimes it’s harder (and i think sometimes impossible)If anyone would like to join the FME leaderboard the code is here697463-34ac7156Sneak preview of today’s solution. Happy that I only had to add one additional transformer for part 2 

Welcome to our November FME Community User Spotlight! Every month, we’ll be spotlighting a user in the community whose active participation and helpful contributions have been invaluable to the community. We’re excited to highlight their experiences and insights!User Spotlight: Hamish Kingsbury @hkingsbury What’s your name?Hamish KingsburyWhat company do you currently work for? LocusWhat’s your current job role and title? Senior FME and Integration SpecialistTell us more about what you do and how you use FME? I initially started using FME as an alternative to Ersi Model Builder, so I began with a lot of GIS and spatial data.As time progressed, I began to move more into the infrastructure and enterprise side of FME. I tend to use FME for a wide range of things, including simple and complex GIS, monitoring and management of other enterprise systems, and (non-spatial) data and system integration.One key thing I like to remember is that spatial data is just data, with a couple of extra fie

Welcome to our second FME Community User Spotlight! Every month, we’ll be spotlighting a user in the community whose active participation and helpful contributions have been invaluable to the community. We’re excited to highlight their experiences and insights!User Spotlight: Joep Kuijvenhoven @joepk What’s your name?Joep KuijvenhovenWhat company do you currently work for? I work for Avineon-Tensing, a GIS consultancy based in Utrecht, the Netherlands.What’s your current job role and title? GIS ConsultantTell us more about what you do and how you use FME? As a GIS consultant, the purpose of my FME usage can vary. I am currently using FME to improve the data quality of two databases that describe the same road network. A large part of this workflow is automated, but another part involves preparing and processing input from an editorial team.Why did you join the FME Community?I grew up using many online forums, and I really enjoy the culture of online communities. This is what initially

Welcome to our first FME Community User Spotlight! Every month, we’ll be spotlighting a user in the community whose active participation and helpful contributions have been invaluable to the community. We’re excited to highlight their experiences and insights!User Spotlight: David Reksten @david_r What company do you currently work for? INSER SA in Lausanne, the French-speaking part of Switzerland.What’s your current job role and title? Data integration consultant and lead GIS developer.Tell us more about what you do and how you use FME? I've been using FME since I started working as a consultant in 2007, at first for geometry validation using FME Form, and then later increasingly as an orchestration and data management platform with FME Flow as a key component. Today, most of my work involves integrating heterogeneous systems and datasets, through cloud services, APIs and good-old database ETL, all of which FME excels at. Our clients are a mix of public and private sector, with very d

Hi,Just a quick post to say that I’m sad that the Lizard and the robot are gone of the opening window for FME Form.I loved to see them in the roller coaster or in the balloon! Where are they? Are they dead? Hopefully they are travelling the world together and they will come back soon!