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v. FME Worldwide User Conference - Vancouver. Sep. 21, 2006. Geomatics and FME from a Corporate Perspective Nadia Shahriari Namini – City of Calgary, Alberta. City of Calgary. Population ~ 1,000,000 22,583 growth last year Area - 286 square miles and growing Hosted 1988 Winter Olympics

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Sep. 21, 2006

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  1. v FME Worldwide User Conference - Vancouver Sep. 21, 2006 Geomatics and FME from a Corporate Perspective Nadia Shahriari Namini – City of Calgary, Alberta

  2. City of Calgary • Population ~ 1,000,000 • 22,583 growth last year • Area - 286 square miles and growing • Hosted 1988 Winter Olympics • Home of the Calgary Stampede • Alberta’s main industries are oil, gas and cattle

  3. The City of CalgaryMunicipal Government • City Council • Mayor and 14 Aldermen • Municipal Administration • City Manager, 6 Major Departments, 27 Business Units • 11,733 Employees

  4. How Does Geomatics Fit In?

  5. Geomatics Division

  6. GIS Analysis • Provides data conversion/GIS analysis services to numerous IT projects and Business Unit clients • Responsible for loading and QA of numerous datasets to Corporate SDE (~350 SDE layers)

  7. GIS Analysis (Cont.) • Numerous technologies: FME, ArcGIS, ArcSDE, AML, Pro-C, PL/SQL, … • Batch jobs: nightly, weekly, monthly,… • Ad-hoc processes

  8. Calgary Transit CLIENTS Water Services Water Resources Roads Parks Fire Police Trans. Planning Urban Development Assessment LIM-CDAM Development & Building Approvals Information Technology LIM- Infrastructure Information

  9. SERVICES Quality Assurance Data Schema Change Maintenance of more than 350 Corporate SDE layers Spatial/Non-Spatial Data Integration/Conversion GIS Analysis Consultation Data Conversion Consultation Data Translations / Transformations Spatial/Non-Spatial GIS Analysis

  10. SDE Layers • 56 Legal Survey Fabric (LSF) Layers • 10 Ownership Parcel Fabric (OPF) Layers • 2 Address POSSE Layers • 44 Digital Aerial Survey (DAS) Layers • 6 Road Network (RoadNet) Layers • 42 Waterworks Layers • 16 Sanitary Layers • 26 Storm Layers • 15 Layers for Transit/Transportation • 14 Layers for Calgary Parks • 5 Layers for Calgary Fire • 7 Layers for Calgary Police • 31 Layers for Calgary Census • 8 Layers for Calgary Schools • …..

  11. Example Projects • Trip Planning Application • Street Lighting Enterprise Geodatabase • Permitted Use Building Envelope Analysis • Open Space GIS Analysis • Parks Asset Management • Waterworks and Wastewater Asset Management • …..

  12. Waterworks and Wastewater Asset Management • Waterworks: a multi-million dollar public utility that manages all aspects of the water treatment and delivery process for The City of Calgary. • Wastewater: responsible for the design, construction, and maintenance of two separate collection systems: • Storm drainage system: helps prevent flooding by diverting rain and snow melt. • Sanitary system: protects public health and the environment by collecting and treating wastewater from residences, schools, hospitals, businesses, and industries.

  13. Waterworks and Wastewater Asset Management • Source data sets: • MicroStation Design files (387 sections) • Oracle database (about 100 tables) • Destination data sets: • 39 Water Works SDE layers • 14 Sanitary SDE layers • 24 Storm SDE layers

  14. Sample Source DGN Files

  15. Storm Sanitary Waterworks Database Schemas

  16. Old process: ARCSDE commands DGN files AML Scripts Coverages SDE layers Oracle DB New process: DGN files FME SDE layers Oracle DB Waterworks and Wastewater Asset Management

  17. FME Processes Destination Data Sets Source Data Sets • Data filtering • Data Integration • DB tables Join • DB to DGN Join • Geometric Operations • Linear Referencing • Data Manipulation • Overlay Analysis • … Waterworks and Wastewater Asset Management

  18. Utilized FME Tools • 4 Filtering Transformers: Perform tests on feature geometry/attribute and route the features to different ports. • 9 Geometric Transformers: Operate on the geometry of individual features /groups of features. • 9 String Transformers: Operate on character strings. • 1 Linear Referencing Transformers: Create and apply measure related information onto the geometry. • 3 Collector Transformers: Operate on collections of features at a time.

  19. Utilized FME Tools (Cont.) • 8 Manipulator Transformers: Modify the geometry/attribute of individual features. • 2 Database Transformers: Allow interactions with external databases. • 6 Infrastructure Transformers: Interaction with the underlying FME engine facilities. • 6 Calculator Transformers: Calculate a value and supply it to a new attribute. • 8 List Transformers: Operate on FME attribute lists.

  20. Quality Assurance/Quality Control

  21. Summary • FME Workspaces: • 20 for Water Works • 16 for Sanitary • 20 for Storm • Batch files: 3 batch files • Running time: ~10 hrs. • Intel Pentium 4 CPU 2.80 GHz 2.00 GB of RAM • Output Data sets: 77 SDE layers

  22. Challenges • Backward Compatibility (with older versions) • Line-linked vs. Point-linked Annotation • StringReplacer and StringPairReplacer • Help Document • Data cleaning (MRFCleaner transformer)

  23. What Do We Like about FME? • Easy to maintain • Easy to document • Data Integration from Multiple sources • Multiple Destination datasets • No intermediate data sets required • Complex spatial and non-spatial analysis all in a single FME workspace • QA/QC processes • Batch mode • Safe Software Support • FUN …

  24. What is Best Practice? For us best practice is the ability to use FME in the most effective and efficient manner; in other words to be organized, to share resources and to consider our fellow FME users.

  25. Shareable FME Files • Workspaces (and mapping files)………………..…………*.fmw / *.fme • Custom Transformers……………………………………………….*.fmx • Custom Formats…………………………………………………………*.fds • Custom Coordinate Systems……………………………………*.* (*.fme) • Transformer Categories……………………………………………*.fmxlist

  26. Shared Custom Transformers A custom transformer is simply a combination of regular transformers fused together. In a single stroke it lets us re-use a set of components and tidy up our cluttered workspaces. Most importantly, Custom Transformers can be shared for use amongst many users. DEMO: Creating and sharing a Custom Transformer

  27. Shared Resource Folders Shared Resource Folders are exactly what they say – centralized locations where resources can be stored for access by many. This explorer screenshot shows a setup for sharing both common and project-specific FME resources. DEMO: Sharing through a Shared Resource Folder

  28. Other Sharing Functionality • Password Protection • Published Parameters • Relative Paths • Spatial ETL Server DEMO: Setting published parameters on running a password protected workspace

  29. Summary • Best Practice for sharing resources means… • Re-use workspace sections using Custom Transformers • Use Shared Resource Directories for instant sharing and updating • Publish Parameters to enable local settings changes • Add Passwords to protect resources from unwanted changes

  30. Thank You.

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