Surveying the Trends in Geospatial Data: From Pixels to Point Clouds

Dale LutzSafe Software Inc.

FME 2011: Makes you the Superhero!

Achieve Total Spatial Data Mastery

FME 2011: Makes you the Superhero!

Achieve Total Spatial Data Mastery

In The Beginning

Canada Land Inventory (60s/70s)

Source: Geoff Zeiss

So On The First Day

Raster

Raster Review

Raster Review

• Orderly

• Well Behaved

• Regular

• Proper

• Multi-banded

• Wide Ranging Sizes

• Tiled

Raster Review

Raster Review

2.5 MillionPixels!!!

On The Second Day

CAD GIS

• Terrain Resource Information Management

• 7027 1:20000 Maps

• Started in 1981

• Heavy use of Microstation for Digitization (CAD)

• Best mapped largest area (at the time)

Example: BC TRIM

40,000(Features in a Dataset)

92b034

SAIF Format

1 of 292b034

SAIF Format

2 of 2

On The Third Day

Databases

1991“Why use a standard

RDBMS for GIS?”- Peter Batty

1993“1995: The Year GIS

Disappeared”- Doug Seaborn

SDBESpatial DataBase Engine

On The Fourth Day

Web / Cloud

Earthquake Visualization (GeoRSS -> KML)

On The Fifth Day

3D & BIM

Take This…

…Specifically This…

33 Safe Software

And Make This

Or 2.5D

UMass AmherstFrom CAD to 3D GIS

ShellData Integration to 3D PDF

ShellData Integration to 3D PDF

BarsebäckNuclear Plant

Decommissioning

BarsebackNuclear Plant Decommissioning

BarsebackNuclear Plant Decommissioning

On The Sixth Day

Point Clouds

Huge Data Volumes

FME 2011: Makes you the Superhero!

Achieve Total Spatial Data Mastery

Over

One Billion

Points

TopCon Example

TopCon Example

And After Six Days…

9 17

29

33

46

57

63

67

94

9399

112

123136

137154

162182

191

210

225238

254

265278

0

50

100

150

200

250

300

1.4.7 FME

2.0

FME

2.1

FME

2.2

FME

2.3

FME

2.3a

FME

2000

FME

2000

SR-1

FME

2002

FME

2002

SR-1

FME

2003

FME

2003

X2

FME

2004

FME

2004

ICE

FME

2004

ICE3

FME

2005

FME

2006

FME

2006

GB

FME

2007

FME

2008

FME

2009

FME

2010

BetaUC

Cut

FME

2010

FME

2011

FME

2012

…An Explosion of Formats

1996

And On The Seventh Day???

Video??

Red Hen Example

GPX & Quicktime

Sensors EVERYWHERE

Mobile

The More Things Change,

The More Things Stay The Same

Format Usage Patterns

60

Why Is Using All This Data Important?

FME 2011: Makes you the Superhero!

Achieve Total Spatial Data Mastery

Better Spatial=

Better Decisions

“The world is getting tougher and we

NEED TO SMARTEN UP.”

- Ola RollenPresident and CEOHexagon

Contact

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• dale.lutz@safe.com

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