OSi & FME

Peter HallahanOperations Manager, Spatial Database

10th September 2012

Agenda

Introduction

Why FME

FME in OSi

Current use

Current developments

Future developments

Questions

Why FME

De facto standard

Workbenches can be simple or complex

Over 200 read/write formats

Reduces need for bespoke software development

FME in OSi

5 x Oracle Edition (Floating)

1 x Server Engine

4 x Professional Edition (Floating)

1 x Professional Edition (Fixed)

Current use

Mainly in our Digital Sales/eCommerceenvironment

For digital maps

DXF, DWG

For elevation

XYZ (Points)

PDF, DXF, DWG, Shape or KML (Contours)

Current use

Extracting data from our ELEVATE database

Current developments

Workbenches for

Prime2 Prime1

Prime2

Current developments

Prime2 -> Prime1

Current developments

Prime2 basic

Features are separated

first by geometry and

then class

Current developments

Prime2 shape

As previous, but…

Caters for ESRI 10 character

limit for attribute names.

Future developments

Proposed Product

Output System

Future developments

Generalisation

Future developments

FME Transformer functions:

Aggregator

Displacer

Feature Merger

Generalizer

Geometry filter

Future developments

Pass 3m

Division Lines will be simplified and smoothed

Water Polygon will have features filtered, simplified, smoothed and aggregated

Water Lines will be simplified and smoothed

Water Points will collapse

Artificial polygons will have features filtered

Vegetation polygons will have features filtered

Exposed polygons will have features filtered

Thank You!

Questions?

For more information:

Peter.hallahan@osi.ie

Ordnance Survey Ireland