1. Interactive Tips & Tricks
A Quest…
Mark Stoakes
Manager, ProServices
April 2012

2. A Quest…
…for the FME Lizard’s name
 Help the FME
Lizard solve some
FME questions.
 Multiple guess
questions are
coming

3. Planning the trip
 Route planning
 Get the Great Circle Route from
Vancouver to the destination
1. Since there isn’t a Great Circle (Loxodrome) transformer, should I first…
a. Give-up and use ArcGIS instead
b. Create a Great Circle custom transformer by myself
c. Write some Python or TCL code
d. Checkout the FME Store
e. Ask a friend if they’d create something for me

4. Possible Sitings…
 Reconnaissance
 FME Lizard has photographed
several sites. He wants to load
the images as FGDB attachments
2. To create a Esri Geodatabase with complex structures
(attachments, domains, subtypes, relationships) should he…
a. Give-up and use ArcGIS instead
b. Use an FME template
c. Checkout the FMEpedia for a Geodatabase example
d. Use FME to reference an XML Workspace template
e. Use the XMLTemplater transformer

5. FME & Geodatabase Attachments
3. What configuration steps are needed
to load attachments using FME?
a. Create the tables using
ArcGIS or XML Template
b. Load the origin feature class (POI)
c. Load the destination table
(attached images)
d. Set relationship attributes
e. Load the relationship table
Select one or more

6. Photo sharing
 Lizard can also submit his trip photos to FME
Server using the notification services that have
been configured.
Thanks for submitting your photo to the demo
system! Your photo has been added to the
catalog. To see the photo go to the URL
https://www.google.com/fusiontables/DataSo
urce?snapid=S423487zYjn A red pin
indicates a location of a photo. Click on that
to see a thumbnail and a link to the complete
photo. Each photo is also tagged with who
emailed it.

7. Planning the trip…
…gathering data
 Gather, QA and load data into File Geodatabase
 Boundaries, Settlements, Roads, Hydrology (Shape)
 Destination FGDB
 DEM (DTED)
 Imagery (GeoTIFF)
 3D structures
(Sketch-up)
 Destination 3D PDF

8. Planning the trip…
…gathering data
 Gather, QA and load data into File Geodatabase
4. Lizard doesn’t have ArcGIS installed. He wants to know if he can still load data
to an Esri Geodatabase. Can he?
a. No. He should find some treasure and buy ArcGIS
b. Yes. Using the Esri Interop extension
c. Yes. Using the File Geodatabase API writer
d. Yes. Using an XML Workspace template
e. Yes. But he has to install FME 2013

9. Planning the trip…
…gathering data
 Gather, QA and load data into File Geodatabase
5. Lizard ran the Gather Data & QA workspace but now he can’t find the
output FGDB. What’s the best thing to do?
a. Wait and ask Don or Dale boss if they know
b. Right Click and select “Open Containing Folder”
c. Risk using Windows Search
d. Contact Safe Support at www.safe.com/support
e. Just use Windows Explorer and start browsing

10. On the Coast
 Coastal search…
<trkpt lat="16.9682833333333" lon="-88.221325">
<ele>0.000</ele>
<time>2012-03-21T17:45:23Z</time>
 GPS Tracks to FGDB (API) </trkpt>
6. Lizard is not an XML expert. How should he
read an XML-based GPS file?
a. XMLTemplater transformer
b. XML Reader with xfmaps
c. GML Reader
d. XML Reader & Feature Paths
e. Text File reader + loads of
transformers

11. Interlude…

12. Road Network
 Lizard needs to make sure he can get to all
POI’s on his planned route…
 Validate the Road Network
Identify which roads
do not connect to the
main network
 NetworkTopologyBuilder

13. Road Network
7. Lizard opened this workspace and pressed F11. What happened?
a. He sent us a notification with an image of the workspace
b. He opened the Overview window
c. He zoomed into the currently selected transformer
d. He maximized the workbench canvas to full screen
e. He bought a used F11 fighter jet on Ebay

14. Road Network
 FME Transformer QuickAdd
8. Lizard needs a “nearest neighbo(u)r” transformer.
What should he type into Quick Add?
a. NeighbourFinder
b. NeighborFinder
c. NF
d. Depends which side of the Atlantic you’re on
e. Depends on your language setting
Select one or more

15. Road Network
 Confirm the POI’s are close to a
Road
 NeighbourFinder Transformer

16. Caracol search
 Shortest Path from Hopkins to Caracol
 ShortestPathFinder

17. Final Showdown - Caracol Encounter
 Build 3D Model
 AOI Boundary
 DEM
 LiDAR
 TIN Surface
 Satellite Imagery
 3D Model

18. LiDAR flyover
9. While acquiring airborne LiDAR of Caracol, Lizard sees multiple returns (he’s
not gone cross-eyed!) and needs to pick the correct classification.
Which transformer should he use to get the best ground surface:
a. TestFilter
b. PointCloudSplitter
c. PointCloudThinner
d. PointCloudGroundSurfaceAcquirer
e. PointCloudCoercer

19. Final Showdown…
 Output to 3D
PDF

20. Quest…
10. Where did Lizard go on his quest?
a. Guatemala
b. Mexico
c. British Honduras
d. Honduras
e. Belize
f. Costa Rica

21. The quest is over…
…the adventure is
just beginning!
 Thanks for coming…
 Final Prizes & Wrap-up