An overview of how the use of FME has benefitted the Silkeborg Municipality of Denmark in various scenarios. The discussion includes specific examples and best practice tips.

1. CONNECT. TRANSFORM. AUTOMATE.
FME in a Danish Municipality
Tue Nilsson Poulsen
GIS-Developer at Silkeborg Municipality

2. Contents
! Background
! Scheduled FME jobs,
! Ad hoc FME usage
! When don’t I use FME?
! DEM manipulation
! Remote sensing

3. Background
! Tue Nilsson Poulsen
! GIS-Developer at Silkeborg Municipality since
2008
! FME-user since 2009
! Silkeborg Municipality
! 860 km2 - 90.000 inhabitants
! 7 persons working with GIS – 4 with FME

6. Scheduled FME jobs
! Downloading WFS-data
! Workspacerunner

8. Scheduled FME jobs
! Downloading WFS-data
! Workspacerunner
! Downloading data from FTP
! Python scripting
! Writing data to CAD-files and uploading them
to FTP

9. Ad hoc FME usage
! Converting to and from CAD
! GeometryValidator / Reprojector / DGNstyler
! Joining a few tables for a quick analysis
! FeatureMerger is your friend
! Importing data to SQL and often repairing
them.
! E.g. clipping all polylines to single lines to
make data valid for Mapserver (Chopper
transformer)

10. When do I not use FME?
! Cartography
! Haven’t explored MapnikRasterizer – yet!
! Manual editing of geometry
! No manual editing of individual geometries
! Quick checks of orthophoto or data
! Both web- and desktopclients are faster

11. DEM-manipulation for enhancing a 3D-
model
High peaks Natural height (m) Current height(m) Notes
Møllehøj 170,86 170,86
Heighest natural
peak
Yding Skovhøj 170,77 172,66
The hill has a bronze
age burial mound on
the top
Ejer Bavnehøj 170,35 App. 183
The hill has a 13m
lookout tower

17. TIN-model

18. DEM raster

23. Remote sensing
! @if((A[1]+A[2])/2 <100,
! @if((A[1]+A[2])/2+25 <A[0] ,1,0),
! @if((A[1]+A[2])/2 <150,
! @if((A[1]+A[2])/2+35 <A[0] ,1,0),
! @if((A[1]+A[2])/2 <200,
! @if((A[1]+A[2])/2+45 <A[0],1,0),0)))

28. Tips & tricks
! Place Inspectors everywhere!

30. Tips & tricks
! Place Inspectors everywhere!
! Spend time learning the transformers
! Use bookmarks
! Document workbenches

31. Thank You!
! Questions?
! For more information:
! Tue Nilsson Poulsen – tnp@silkeborg.dk
! Silkeborg Municipality
! http://linkedin.com/in/tuenp
CONNECT. TRANSFORM. AUTOMATE.