1. Managing Real Property Information
with FME
Paul Churcher
GIS Coordinator - Director Real Property Planning
ADM(Infrastructure & Environment)
Department of National Defence
9th April 2013

2. Who is ADM(IE)?
 L1 Headquarters organization based in Ottawa
 Acquire and dispose real property and advise
RCN, CA, RCAF, and base/wing on real property
 Manage major AEC activities across the CAF
 Provide situational awareness to DND
 Responsible for reporting assets to TB, EC, OAG
 Large consumer of spatial information
 Corporate systems and business flows not yet
geo-enabled

3. DND Real Property Data
 Base/wings and ADMIE are spatial data
producers:
 Buildings, Roads, Utilities, Security, Environment, SNIC, RTA
 Legal boundaries, surveys and zoning, National view
 Outside data sources: Provinces, FGO, Oil and gas industry
 Need to fuse information from many producers
and formats to be able to get big picture:
 How many buildings does DND own? How much land does DND
occupy?
 What is the condition of these assets? How old are they?
 What is their replacement value?
 Does the RP portfolio support the current and
future mission of CAF?

4. Distributed Real Property data

5. FME Usage at DND
 Current FME Desktop usage:
 General data translation
 Fuse corporate data to spatial data for DFRP reporting
 Read legacy data (Intergraph, CAD) into geodatabases
 Planned future implementation:
 CAD to GIS migration
 BIM support
 GIS to CAD output
 FME Server for enforcement of data standards and transfer of data from
base/wing or area level data marts into central data warehouse

6. Example: CAD to GIS
 Source:
EDM_GARRISON_CURRENT.dwg
 Result:
File Esri Geodatabase
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7. Example: CAD to GIS cont…
 Source:
2010_utilities_water_plan.dwg
 Result:
File Esri Geodatabase
 Annotation + symbols
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8. Example: BIM Assets
 Source:
CSH-ARCH-R11_4-IFC.ifc
 Result:
CSV Data
3D PDF
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9. Example: BIM Data Integration
 Source:
CFB_Edmonton_2011.sid
 3D IFC Model
LandXML TIN
 Texture images (appearances))
 Result:
3D PDF
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10. Example: GIS to CAD
 Source:
File Esri Geodatabase
 Result:
CAD File
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11. Thank You!
 Questions?
 For more information:
 Paul Churcher paul.churcher@forces.gc.ca
 ADM(Infrastructure & Environment)
 Department of National Defence