Presented by Bruce Harold, Esri See more FME World Tour 2014 presentations at www.safe.com/recap2014

1. CONNECT. TRANSFORM. AUTOMATE.
No pressure, but the Workbench
needs fixing so the co-worker can
go have her baby...
Bruce Harold
Product Manager, Esri

2. Where does Esri use FME technology?
Report or Story?
Show of hands please

3. Your Next 20 19 Minutes Journey
 Ordinary World
 Call to Adventure
 Refusal of the Call
 Meeting with the Mentor
 Crossing the Threshold
 Tests, Allies and Enemies
 Approach the Innermost Cave
 Ordeal
 Reward
 The Road Back
 Resurrection
 Return with the Elixir
 Better World

4. Ethos, Logos, Pathos
 Project an image of credibility
 Then go prove it
 Win hearts and minds
 Get more work to do….

5. Patterns in FME Use Cases - Formats
 Spreadsheets
 DBase
 OGC Formats
 CAD
 CSV (the optimists
spreadsheet)
 Custom (weird)
structures
 XML (what are
they thinking?)
 JSON
 RSS
 Directories of Data
 URLs
 The baby is coming

6. Patterns in FME Use Cases - Functions
 Cross Database
Joins
 Casting Data Types
 Lists & Cardinality
 Vertical Datum
 Coordinate
Rounding
 NULL handling
 SDE Updating
 Feature Granularity
 Binary Attributes
 Change Detection
 Concatenation
 Expressions
 REST/URL handling

7. The Dreaded Functionality Gap
 Change is guaranteed
 Change always meets resistance
 It is hard to design for change
 Luckily, our software is complete and perfect
 Except for…

8. Sometimes it’s a judgment call
Field Map Control
Modelbuilder

9. Baby Story
Baby
needed
TestFilter

10. Community Maps

11. Community Maps
 Crowd to Cloud
 Authoritative Data for:
 Streets, Topography, Imagery, Hydrography
 Esri supply the data model
 Contributor sends data regularly
 Contributor data is Change Detected (FME!)
 Adds, Deletes go to SDE Version, gets posted
 Map tile cache refreshed

12. Community Maps Processing
Contributor ID: {B0BEE756-A683-4700-ACCE-9585A07559C4}

13. Community Maps Processing

14. Community TIGER
 Census Bureau project to harvest:
 Streets with Address Ranges
 Address Points (Multiple Dwelling Units)
 Local Government Boundaries
 39,000 Local Governments
 Quality Control Steps – Data Reviewer
 Interesting combination of DR workspace & DI
 Change Detect, De-dupe, Compress, Load to SDE

15. Community TIGER Workflows
http://geocoding.geo.census.gov/geocoder/

16. Community TIGER
ETL Tools

17. 3D Work
 Bulk 3D Geometry Creation, Editing
 3D Geometry Comparisons
 Next Generation 3D Geocoding

18. Aeronautical Charting Example
 FMW is 36Mb
 110 Bookmarks
 1000+Transformers

19. Professional Services
 Handling Excel, DBase, CSV without stress
 Eliminate need for scripting in Python
Join Excel
Read CSV

20. Professional Services Cont’d
 Example Multiple DBase Join
7 x Dbase JoinersRead File GDB

21. On the Slab in the Lab
Thread
Pool

22. The Perfect Workspace
 Generic Format + Dynamic Schema + Python

23. Thank You!
 Questions?
 For more information:
 Bruce Harold, bharold@esri.com
 Esri Inc.
 www.esri.com