Sep. 21-22, 2006v The Road Ahead

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Doctors’ Report

FME 2007 and Beyond

FME 2007 Overview

Product Integrations

Python in FME 2007

FME 2007 Spatial ETL Server debut

Demonstrations

FME 2007

New Geometry Architectural refresh continues focusing on processing

functions.

64 bit FME engine is running internally. Not all formats as some rely on 3rd party libraries. Cannot have mixed 32 and 64 bit in an application

Raster Improved performance. Reprojection is about 40 times

faster.

More Web Service clients WMS, WCS, GeoRSS and others.

FME 2007

More Formats Geoconcept, GeoRSS, VOIV, CityGML, Lidar,

TIGER GML…., File Geodatabase

Format updates Oracle Spatial updates, Enterprise Geodatabase,

Autocad, DGN, GeoMedia, …

Continued Workbench Improvements Overview window, increased window flexibility Improved do/undo Improved schema migration support Improved transformer upgrade support.

Workbench 2007

Workbench 2007

Workbench 2007

Workbench 2007

Customizable Categories

Create and share groups of transformers Transformers could grouped by task

Selectable Reproject Engine

Default is FME engine

ESRI Reproject Engine can be used if ArcGIS is present

Possibly more Reproject engines could be made available

An FME Objects interface for Reproject engines has also been added Special license needed

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Raster Support Goals

Translate between raster types eg. GeoTIFF > JPEG2000

Translate between raster subtypes eg. 8 bit colour palette -> 24 bit continuous colour

Resample rasters

Reproject rasters With reasonable performance(!)

Combine Raster & Vector in interesting ways Clip rasters to specific vector rectangles Drape -- moving raster data to vector features

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Raster in Databases

Raster database support status ESRI ArcSDE

Writing and reading

Oracle 10g Writing (reading will follow)

Zoning and Roads Overlaid on Landsat Image

Contours Generated From DEM

Why 64 Bit FME?

Memory, memory, memory. Able to process drastically larger datasets.

Machines with more than 4 GB commonplace.

Increased processor performance No cost premium

Vista + Core Duo 2 = commonplace 64 bit

New Geometry Model

New Geometry Model

Backward compatible with old geometry model Old geometry is in fact a type of new geometry. All existing formats/transformers work as before.

Formats upgraded as needed to support new geometry ESRI Geodatabase, FF, GML, Oracle, AutoCAD, GeoMedia,

Design Files, SDF3, …

Enables FME to support all latest geometry models

Latest status on fmepedia.

Why a New Geometry Model?

Arcs, Arcs, Arcs Many systems represent features using arcs. Paths can consist of both arcs and line segments.

More efficient/accurate way to represent curves. New CurveFit transformer will create paths with arcs.

Proper support for measures. Multiple measures per vertex also supported.

Lays groundwork for multiple geometries per feature.

Multi-Processing

Cores, Cores, Cores. Intel/AMD now have dual core processors.

How to take advantage of this? Multi-threading applications Multi-processing applications

Advantages of Multi-Processing Each process has its own memory space. Multi-process workspace can be distributed across

machine boundaries not just process boundaries.

Multi-Processing

Disadvantages of Multi-Processing Communication is more expensive. Big performance gain for high cpu intensive tasks like

intersection, overlays, surface modeling, etc.

Advantages of Multi-Threading Low communication overhead. Finer grained parallelism.

Disadvantages of Multi-Threading More difficult to debug and develop applications.

Safe has Multi-Processing via the FME TransporterFactory & Transporter Transformers

More Data Sources

FME is an environment able to use web services. To FME these are just data sources, and transformers.

FME is an ideal data integration/aggregation tool able to consume many data sources. It doesn’t matter where the data comes from! Python plays critical part in this. Our coming FME Spatial ETL Server can publish services

derived from other services.

FME is positioned to play a key role in enabling organizations to make wide-spread use of web services.

Python

Python is a great way to extend the reach of FME technology. Most web services are not WFS, WMS, or SOAP..

FME 2007 enables users to exploit the power of Python more easily. FME 2006 GB has some capabilities but not like

FME 2007.

Python Goodies

Many great libraries out there for users PyParsing (generic parsing) BeautifulSoup (XML/HTML parsing) Cheetah (Template Library) ReportLab ( PDF generation, etc) ZSI (Soap library) CElementTree (Wicked fast XML parsing) GeometryFactory (geometry algorithms)

Many more…

Web Service via Python

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Call out to Yahoo Geocoding Web Service

FME Spatial ETL Server 2007

FME has very strong client applications Workbench is a great authoring tool Viewer is a strong data inspection tool for raster and vector

Workbench is to be the authoring environment for Server Deploy workbench scripts to the server as a service/resource for

organization Run/debug workbench scripts on the server during the authoring

phase

SpatialDirect is a client to this FME Spatial ETL Server

FME Spatial ETL Server will be released at same time as FME 2007 It will then evolve over the next few releases.

Spatial ETL Server Solution

FME Spatial ETL Server

FME SpatialDirectConfiguration

FME Spatial ETL Server

FME Spatial ETL Server

FME Spatial ETL Server

FME Spatial ETL Server

FME Spatial ETL Server

FME Spatial ETL Server

Users see data the way they need to see it

Spatial ETL Server

Ability to do data Federation is key

Survey at ETL Conference

What is the most important data type that ETL tools don’t support?

#2 answer was Spatial!

MIS + GIS = IS

Databases All major databases both open source and proprietary

now support or will support spatial data natively.

ETL Tools Many of the Major ETL vendors such as Microsoft (SSIS)

and Informatica now want to incorporate spatial capabilities.

Business Intelligence Many decisions making processes can benefit from

incorporation of spatial data.

Internet Yahoo Maps, Google Maps, Google Earth, Microsoft Virtual

Earth, AOL, GlobeXplorer, …

Safe and Microsoft SSIS

Safe and Informatica PowerCenter

Safe Software Strategy

There is one thing that all applications need to shine.

Spatial Data

Data is to applications and databases as fuel is to an engine.

A database or web-based tool with no data is useless.

Web services with no easy way to consume them provide no value.

The job of Safe Software and its Users is to bring the power of spatial data to all applications!

Demonstration(s)