Templates & WorkspacesWorkspaces & Templates

Tips n’ tricks for Esri Users

April 2012

Agenda

Using an FME Workspace template to create a workspace Using Esri XML Workspaces as a template to create a

Geodatabase Example: using

Esri ArcGIS for Local Government

Esri ArcGIS for Local Government

Basemaps, Apps and Local Government Information Model

Esri ArcGIS for Local Government Local Government Information Model

Local Government maps use a single information model (data model + map/layer designs):

Infrastructure, Land Records, Elections, Public Safety, Planning & Development, Facilities & Campus, Address

LocalGovernment.gdb

FME Workspace template What’s an FME Workspace template?

A starting point for your own workspace

Example: Local Government Election

Results Data Loading Components:

Source Data Election Voting Results (CSV or Excel spreadsheets) Voting Precinct polygons for various levels of Gov.

Geodatabase Template Esri XML Workspace Document (schema only)

or existing Local Government FGDB

FME Workspace Template / Spatial ETL Tool Template

Example: Election Results

Source Data Election Voting Results (Excel spreadsheets)

Voting Precinctsfor various levels of government

PrecinctID Name Township WinningParty TotalBallots Candidate1 Party1 NumVotes1 PercentVote1 Candidate2 Party2 NumVotes2 PercentVote2

18 Dupage 18 Dupage Democratic 751Lawrence M. "Larry" Walsh Democratic 507 67.51%Dan S. Kennison Republican 244 32.49%

19 Dupage 19 Dupage Democratic 538Lawrence M. "Larry" Walsh Democratic 401 74.54%Dan S. Kennison Republican 137 25.46%

20 Dupage 20 Dupage Democratic 657Lawrence M. "Larry" Walsh Democratic 403 61.34%Dan S. Kennison Republican 254 38.66%

21 Dupage 21 Dupage Democratic 484Lawrence M. "Larry" Walsh Democratic 278 57.44%Dan S. Kennison Republican 206 42.56%

22 Dupage 22 Dupage Democratic 343Lawrence M. "Larry" Walsh Democratic 214 62.39%Dan S. Kennison Republican 129 37.61%

23 Dupage 23 Dupage Democratic 574Lawrence M. "Larry" Walsh Democratic 408 71.08%Dan S. Kennison Republican 166 28.92%

24 Dupage 24 Dupage Democratic 609Lawrence M. "Larry" Walsh Democratic 423 69.46%Dan S. Kennison Republican 186 30.54%

25 Dupage 25 Dupage Democratic 392Lawrence M. "Larry" Walsh Democratic 267 68.11%Dan S. Kennison Republican 125 31.89%

Example: Election Results

Database Template Esri Workspace XML schema or existing Local Government FGDB

Example: Election Results

FME Workspace / Spatial ETL Tool TemplateRename Attributes

Add Source Datasets

Map Values

Example: Election Results

FME Workspace / Spatial ETL Tool Template

Example: Election Results

Recorder of Deeds Election Results Will County Dupage County

FME Template

Templates are just a ZIP file with a .fmwt extension that contain: an FME workspace sample data files any other resource files (i.e. an FME Workspace

template) Double clicking a .fmwt file will open FME

Workbench and unzip the sample data so you can run the example.

Beyond Local Government Data

How else can FME technology help me?FME Desktop or Esri Data Interoperability Extension

Bring any data into ArcGIS

Share data out to anyone

What we’ve seen:

How to use a FME Workspace template to create a workspace

How to use an Esri XML Workspace as a template to create a Geodatabase

Create an FME Template bundle

Summary