ISC and FME Data Translations

Owen Spickard, Intergraph Services Company Senior Image Scientist

2010:An FME

Odyssey

Intergraph Services Company (ISC)

  ISC provides high-quality and cost-effective mapping, charting, and imagery products for government and commercial customers.

  ISC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Intergraph Corporation and was established to provide solutions, products and services for our customers.

Services Provided by ISC

  Cartography   Database Design and Development   Data Conversion   Map and Chart Production   GIS Implementation   Imagery Analysis and Interpretation   Photogrammetry   Aerial Triangulation   Orthophotography   Feature Extraction   Lidar Post Processing

ISC’s Collection Platform

  GeoMedia Professional 6.1   GeoMedia ImageStation Stereo 6.0   GeoMedia Fusion 6.1   GeoMedia Digital Cartographer 6.1   GeoMedia Topographer 6.1   GeoMedia GIToolkit 6.1

ISO Certification

  ISC’s quality management system has been approved through the internationally recognized standard for quality in management and processes (ISO 9001:2008).

  This certification assures our customers of repeatable processes that result in geospatial data and services of the highest caliber.

ISC is ISO 9001:2008 Certified

ISC and FME

  The majority of our customers utilize the ESRI GIS platform and require data deliveries in their native formats.

  In order to meet the needs of our customers and ISO requirements, a safe and efficient method to convert our data needed to be developed.

  FME provides a stable, safe, and reliable platform to translate our data products to customer required formats.

FME Provides ISC

  Data compatibility   Efficiency   Reliability   Consistency   Repeatability

FME Workbench

  FME’s workbench gives ISC the ability to work in our native data format and translate to the customer required final data format.

  The ability to work in the INGR format allows ISC develop in house tools and workflows that are more efficient.

  The flexibility to deliver a multitude of different data formats allows ISC to meet the needs of many different customers.

ISC Daily Uses for FME

  Data Preparation   Data Transformation   Data Delivery   Source Preparation   Custom Workbenches for solutions to specific

issues   Translation of Customer Feedback

FME Workbench

  For some of our products, ISC needs to ingest customer provided source information and convert it into our native INGR format.

  Some examples of these formats are:   .xls spreadsheets   ESRI shapefiles   ESRI Personal Geodatabases   Simple text files

XLS to GeoMedia MDB

ESRI SHP to GeoMedia MDB

GeoMedia MDB to ESRI MDB

Internal Translations

  ISC also uses FME to accomplish data manipulations and transformations.

  The database portion of our collection requires a large amount of attribute population.

  FME can take a set of attribution and auto populate the values of specific attributes with specific values.

Schema Mapper

  ISC reformats a dataset by renaming, repopulating, and creating new additional attributes via the FME workbench.

  Once the attributes are populated, ISC uses the feature type filter transformer to extract the dataset back to separate feature classes.

Schema Mapper

Schema Mapper

Schema Mapper

  ISC uses Schema Mapper to fill in attributes in large datasets that will be populated with defined values from a .csv file.

  Here are the column name examples from the csv for the Schema Mapper Transformer to read from:   GmpFeclass   GdbFeclass   Codeattr   Codevalue   Codedescattr   Codedescvalue

Custom Workspace Examples

  Example #1   Workspace to populate building length and width

  Example #2   Workspace to take a database with information

and associate this information with a web-based platform (i.e. Google Mash-up)

Area Length and Width

Area Length and Width

Area Length and Width

Area Length and Width

Google Mashup Example

Google Mashup Example

Conclusion

  FME allows ISC to fulfill customer requirements

  Establishes safe and effective workflows   Efficient and reliable translations   Repeatable and compliant delivery formats

Thank You!

  Questions?

  For more information:   Owen Spickard:   owen.spickard@intergraph.com   Intergraph Services Company   P.O. Box 6724 Huntsville, AL 35813   Telephone: 256-730-6739