Learn about the MapTextLabeller, an exciting new extra-cost FME plugin from MapText which lets you automate the creation of high quality labels - and through its integration with FME - concurrently transform your data and output to formats like AutoCAD DWG, Microstation DGN, Esri Geodatabase, MapInfo, and others. Join us to discover how you can take advantage of its rules-based label placement and styling capabilities to save time and create amazing labels in your preferred application.

1. How to Automatically Create
Beautiful Cartographic Labels
Using FME's New MapTextLabeller
March 06, 2013

2. Who Are We?
Dale Lutz
Co-Founder and
Vice President of Development
Safe Software
Dmitri Bagh
Scenario Creation and
Testing Analyst
Safe Software

3. Questions are Encouraged!
This morning’s Q&A Support:
 Mark Stoakes
Manager Professional Services
Safe Software

5. FME – Feature Manipulation Engine
Powering The Flow of Spatial Data

6. FME Capabilities
Transform Data to Use and Share
 Convert spatial data between
hundreds of formats
 Transform spatial data into the
precise data model you need
 Integrate multiple different data
types into a single data model
 Share spatial data with people
where, when and how they need it

7. Workbench:
Graphical Data Flow Authoring

8. New to FME?
 Getting started page:
http://fme.ly/GetStarted
 Attend a weekly FME Desktop overview
webinar:
http://fme.ly/WeeklyIntro

9. Poll: Do you currently label maps
on a regular basis?

10. Introducing the MapTextLabeller
for FME
 Developed by MapText, Inc.
 Extra-cost plugin resold by Safe and our partners

11. Demo 1
Vancouver Neighborhoods
 Simple polygon labelling
 Placement Rules

12. Poll: What type(s) of maps do
you need to label?

13. MapTextLabeller GUI
Transformer Parameters

14. MapTextLabeller GUI
Label Manager

15. MapTextLabeller GUI
Style Properties

16. MapTextLabeller GUI
Rule Properties

17. MapTextLabeller GUI
MapTextStyler

18. Poll: To which formats will you
send your labels?

19. Target Systems
 G6 (Group of Six)

20. Target Systems
 Rasters (Stroke, Style, Sort, Rasterize)

21. Target Systems
 PDF (using ArcGIS as target)
 And even more!

22. How FME can help
Data enrichment
 Measurements (area, length, extents, azimuth)
 Shape estimation (circularity, angularity,
rectangularity)

23. How FME can help
Attribute manipulations
 Clean input attributes
 Concatenate attributes/constants/expressions
 Add spaces or new lines

24. How FME can help
Geometry manipulations
 Clean geometries (snap, intersect, make
polygons)
 Modify geometries (clip, buffer, amalgamate)

25. Amalgamation

26. How FME can help
Analysis and second Labelling

27. World Labelling

28. How FME can help
Parallel Processing
 Split the input into independent chunks
 Label concurrently:
 Single process runs
out of memory on
32-bit OS /
1 hour on 64-bit OS
 24 processes finish
in 20 minutes
 http://fme.ly/parallel

29. Summary
 MapTextLabeller is a powerful plugin
that can help you quickly
and beautifully label your maps

30. Poll: Would you be interested in
evaluating MapTextLabeller?

31. More about MapTextLabeller
 At Safe.com:
http://safe.com/maptext
 On FMEpedia:
http://fmepedia.safe.com/

32. Upcoming webinars
 How to Efficiently Transform Non-Spatial Data
using FME – March 13
 PostGIS 2.0 – How to Improve Interoperability
using FME – April 24
Recorded Webinars:
 http://fme.ly/webinars

33. We’ll Be Following Up

34. Thank You!
 For more information, contact:
 Sales
 info@safe.com
 Support
 support@safe.com
 (604)501-9985 ext. 278
 Dmitri
 dmitri.bagh@safe.com
 Dale
 dal@safe.com