The GET application enables students and staff at all Swedish universities to download selected areas of basemaps from Lantmäteriet (the Swedish Land Survey). The presentation will contain a technical overview of the application and lessons learned. See more presentations from the FME User Conference 2014 at: www.safe.com/fmeuc

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Jakob Lagerstedt, Mats Högström
Constructing a Federated Data Distribution Service for Universities

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Overview
Background
Previous Attempts
A modern solution
Some tricks learned
Results

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Background
We are from the
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

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Background
Data and researchers in Sweden

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Background
Not free
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Background
Strange formats
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Special Collections (CC BY 2.0)

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Previous attempts
Distribution was difficult
Required authorization and data preparation
Researchers would share pieces of data on USB drives (sneakernets)
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A modern solution
Geographic Extraction Tool

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A modern solution
Geographic Extraction Tool

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A modern solution
Geographic Extraction Tool

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Tricks of the trade ()
Do not panic
All the code is in the handouts if you are interested!
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FME server Rest API
Token service /fmetoken/service/generate
HTTP get /fmerest/repositories/" + your_fme_repo_name + ".json
Tricks of the trade (Servlet)
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Tricks of the trade (Shutdown Python script)
To enable unsupported functions
Zip & Email & Remove files that have been downloaded, Anything you want!

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Tricks of the trade (External script example 1 handout)
Use an external script to enable faster debugging
Monkey patch sys or import something from path (yes we actually use the linux version)

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Tricks of the trade (SpatiaLite example 2 handout)
Wonderful format for mixed environments
We have Qgis, Arcmap, FME, they all read it!
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Tricks of the trade (SpatiaLite)
However, FME does not read as efficiently as other formats

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Tricks of the trade (SpatiaLite)
does not set spatial index

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Tricks of the trade (SpatiaLite)
Can fix

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Tricks of the trade (Google Fusion Tables)
Fusion tables are nice for reporting
But often writes fail (we do not know why, reported the issue)

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Tricks of the trade (KML network link)
KMLs are nice for reporting

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Results
23 Universities
100K distributed data sets ( 400 * total area of country)
6000 Unique users
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22. Thank You!
 Questions?
 Handout link
http://pluto.slu.se/drop/public.php?
service=files&t=2e0c13550e0c71e963e6f6bb2c52569c
 For more information:
 jakob.lagerstedt | mats.hogstrom @slu.se
 Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
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