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From Data to Maps to Docs: Turn Days into
Minutes with Automated Integration

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Meet the Presenters
Philip Jacob
Higher Executive Officer,
Valuations Office Ireland
Dmitri Bagh
Scenarios, Safe Software
Dale Lutz
Co-Founder, Safe Software

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MapnikRasterizer?

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Agenda
● Introduction
● Valuation Office Ireland Use Case
● Highlights and Demos
● Q&A

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Report generation can eat up days, if not
months, each year.
Data is often scattered, across different
formats, and too cumbersome to digest.

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A recipe for incredible time savings.
Data
integration
with FME
Automatically
generated
content
+
Convert maps
to images to
docs

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Years of solving data challenges
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Organizations trusting us worldwide
Global partners delivering FME Services
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Countries with FME customers
Safe Software
Company Profile
www.safe.com
Users active in FME Community
20,000+

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Unrivaled Data Support

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Guest Speaker
Philip Jacob
Higher Executive Officer at Valuation Office Ireland

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Valuations Office Ireland
Goal: Provide evaluators in valuation office to
generate a legal document based on information
from various sources in a standardized manner.
Challenge: ~20+ human hours to generate one
doc if required data is easily available.

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The Document –Details
Final
Document
Maps
Valuation
Details
Pictures/
Images/PDF’s
Subject
Details
Calculations
Rental
Comparison
Valuation
Comparison
Other
Relevant Info

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THE SOLUTION- BENEFITS
Operational
✔ All relevant data, maps and other features and made readily available in
one document for official’s perusal in a matter of minutes.
Economic
✔ An official would be able to complete a document in a matter of hours,
except for special cases. This means officials will no longer have to spend
3-5 days creating a document
Technical
✔ The official will have all associated data to hand, which will require no
further research (unless a specialized case).
✔ Data provided will be verified and accurate and will be associated with
all authorizations and permissions.
Legal
✔ All legal requirements will be fulfilled, such as all maps facing a northerly
direction with road labelling and other criteria.

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Office
The Scope
1.To provide a common platform and design
structure that easily allows the creation of multiple
documents that meet both legal and design
requirements.
2.All changes (legal or design) can be updated in one
location and applied to all document templates.
3.Other data sources can easily be imported to all
document templates.
Enhancements
Additional Features :
❖ Single mapping source (OSI Maps) via API
❖ Data from services website
❖ Prime 2 polygons
❖ Google maps from google API
❖ Distance between subject and comparable
mapped (FME - Mapnikrasteriser)
❖ All Comparable in One single Map (FME-
Mapnikrasteriser)
❖ Legal Compliance
❖ Tableau Dashboards

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Office
Additional Features –Using FME
Automated Maps
▪ All Maps are generated North Facing.
▪ All roads are labelled.
▪ The buffer distance is calculated based on the
distance.
▪ The background layer is picked based on the
distance.
▪ The size of the raster and the font of the text
are based on the size of the image generated.
▪ Allocate copyright credentials to OSi

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● All In One Map
● Maps have to fit in A4.
● The size of the text varies.
● The buffer distance is calculated
based on the distance.
● The background layer is picked
based on the distance.
● The size of the raster and the font
of the text are based on the size of
the image generated.
● Allocate copyright credentials to OSi
Additional Features
Continued….

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County Map
Map of the county from
open data API
Additional Features
Continued….

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What is involved?
• Bufferer
• 2Dbox replacer
• Expression Evaluator
• Mapnikrasteriser
• Tester
• Feature Reader
• Vertex Creator
• Coordinate System
Setter
• Statistics Calculator
• SQL Executor
• Attribute Manager
• Attribute Value
mapper

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Office
Additional Features Continued….
Image Attachments
Images from the property in concern have been
attached from the database to enhance the
document and also to make the job simple for the
end users by sizing the images and inserting them
into the Final Document
PDF – Insertion
PDF documents including certificates associated with
the property have also been brought in using FME.

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Office
Additional Features Continued….
Google Images
▪ Using Google’s API
▪ Choice of 5 images to see which one fits best

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Services API
Associating the services average from
open data API for state services.
Providing the end user with additional
information which might be relevant
to their case.
Additional Features
Continued….

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Retrieval and Calculations
Retrieving data based on
conditions.
Statistical calculation based
on values.
Additional Features
Continued….

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Dashboards
Currently using tableau dashboards as
images.
Planning to enhance the capability to
extract live from the server.
Additional Features
Continued….

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COMPARISON
CURRENT MAP AUTOMATED MAP

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Output Sample

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What does the workbench look like?

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Philip Jacob
philip.jacob@valoff.ie
Special Thanks
Francis Power (Valuation Office)
Philip Kelly (Valuation Office)
Liam Butler (Valuation Office)
&
Gavin Park (IMGS)
Garret Cronin (IMGS)

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Dmitri Bagh
Scenarios, Safe Software
Port Moody, British Columbia
Twitter: DmitriAtSafe

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Demo 1: Hello Ukraine

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Demo 1: Making PDF and HTML
(and Trello card)

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Demo 1:
Output

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WHAT IS MAPNIK?
Open source cartographic rasterizer that can generate
beautiful raster imagery

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What is the
An FME transformer that draws input point, line, polygon, and
raster features into an image using the Mapnik toolkit.

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Sub-pixel anti-aliasing

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Source
Symbolizers
● BuildingSymbolizer
● LineSymbolizer
● LinePatternSymbolizer
● MarkersSymbolizer
● PolygonSymbolizer
● PolygonPatternSymbolizer
● PointSymbolizer
● RasterSymbolizer
● ShieldSymbolizer
● TextSymbolizer

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Multiple layers per feature

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Mapnik 2014 Webinar Recap
● The webinar in 2014 talks about preparing data for
rasterization
● An overview of components
and demos

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Mapnik components and demos of the
previous episode
● External style definitions
● Mapnik Labelling engine
● Comp-Op operations
● Compound line styles

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Vancouver Streets Example

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Topographic Map Example
● Really flowing rivers
● Generalization (base
scale 1:10,000 derived
scale 1:25,000)
● Making a PDF Atlas and
web tiles (view online)

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Contour Face
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Demo 2: Open Data to Google Sheets
(and Trello card)

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Demo 2: Open Data to Google Sheets
(and Trello card)
Check it online

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Demo 3. Highway Atlas in MS Word
(and Trello card)

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Demo 3. Highway Atlas in MS Word

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Useful links
● Article: Introduction to MapnikRasterizer
● Webinar: The Secret to Mapnik Mastery
● Webinar: Streamlining Processes Towards High Quality Cartography
● Webinar: Cartography and FME: The Science and Art of Making Beautiful Maps
● More about Symbolizers
● Comp-op

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Bonus demo 1. Animated shortest path
Markers. Integration with ImageMagick

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Bonus demo 1. Animated shortest path

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Bonus demo 2. LOTR-styled map
Blog article by
John Nelson for
inspiration
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