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Product Evangelist and Product Specialist at Safe Software, BC, Canada. I write all of their training materials, support users (on FMETalk.com), evangelize on my blog (FMEEvangelist.com), run the certification program, help with product design, and much more!

I've now Worked for 20+ years in the spatial data industry (yikes!) particularly spatial data management. I focus on GIS and IT training and like being able to help people understand and use technology in new and interesting ways.


Jun
13
answered OGR Projection transformation error
Jun
13
comment Shapefile to X3D
Yes, FME can read Shape data and write to X3D so should be able to do this easily enough. Our web page has a full list of supported formats at: safe.com/fme/format-search
May
27
answered Use FME to delete records from PostGIS before loading new records
May
8
comment ArcMap - Opening the attribute table gives 'Could not load data from the data source' error
Yes, for sure send us a copy of the data (safe.com/supportrequest) and we'll take a look at it. btw - which Geodatabase writer are you using? The ArcObjects one or the open API version?
Apr
24
awarded  Constituent
Apr
17
awarded  Caucus
Apr
17
comment FME area on area overlayer dropping components of some features
Regardless, I think this could be something that we should fix. To me it's a toss-up between whether it's bad data or bad behaviour by the FME transformer. I'm going to file this with the development team and get their opinion on it.
Apr
17
comment FME area on area overlayer dropping components of some features
The GeometryValidator is turning the feature into a multi-part polygon, that's divided at the intersecting/touching point. So the output from the AreaOnAreaOverlayer will be correct. It won't have moved or deleted a point. The only issue will be does this form of data get written to your output as you need? If not, you could try a Dissolver transformer, to merge it back into a single polygon; though you would want to be careful about what you are dissolving. Preferably assign a unique ID and dissolve with that as a group-by
Mar
27
answered In an ESRI Shapefile, what is the “Record Number” field of each record header in the .shp file?
Mar
25
answered Huge x,y,z dataset into oracle, possible?
Mar
4
comment How to Count Features in a Feature Type in FME?
Yes, in which case the "Total Count" output is what will contain your result. But the Counter method is equally as valid.
Jan
15
answered FME: Can I add multiple feature types to the SQL Server Spatial reader?
Dec
5
answered How to embed images in KML balloons using FME?
Nov
19
answered Problems with intersection in FME and ArcMap
Nov
7
awarded  fme
Nov
6
awarded  Nice Question
Nov
1
comment How to convert a JPEG to GeoTiff using FME?
fyi In FME2013 we've made this transformer a bit more lenient, so that if the numbers aren't quite right, it will still pass. It's only a "bit" lenient; the data will still need to be approximately square of course.
Nov
1
answered Converting lat lon into co-ordinates (in ft of m)
Oct
1
comment Is there any batch process to get a single band image from stacked image
Feature Manipulation Engine
Sep
17
comment How can I set the output feature type name dynamically?
Is there any reason you can't use a fanout?