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As presented by Dale Lutz, VP of Development for Safe Software at the 2012 GeoAlberta Conference
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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
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
• http://www.safe.com
• http://blog.safe.com
• @DaleAtSafe