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Workshop: Getting Started with FME Form

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August 31, 2023

https://arcg.is/18uimj0

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Karol Francis, FMEP

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karol@gisworks.com

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/karolfrancis/

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Bio

Live in Phoenix

Began using FME in 2020

FME Certified Professional in 2021

Favorite FME Transformer: Attribute Manager

Employer: GIS Works, LLC

Hobbies: Baking, GIS nerdery, and 3D printing

Pet: Lord Helmet, the horsefield tortoise

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Agenda

  1. Brief introduction to FME
  2. FME Tutorials
  3. FME Best Practices
  4. Practical Demonstration
  5. FME Resources

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What is FME?

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  • ETL
  • Low / No Code

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FME Rebranding

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Getting Started with FME Form

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Desktop/FME_Workshop

�http://karolfrancis.com/agic2023

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Exercises

  1. Getting Started
  2. Viewing Data
  3. Adding Transformers
  4. Spatial Filter
  5. Add Writer
  6. Writing Data

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Please Take the Survey

https://arcg.is/18uimj0

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FME Best Practices

  1. Create well-styled workspaces that are self-documenting
  2. Create high-performance workspaces
  3. Use FME Workbench in a way that’s most efficient
  4. Debug a workspace when it doesn’t work the way intended
  5. Use FME in a project-based environment

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FME Best Practices: Workspace Organization

  1. KISS - Keep it Simple, Silly
  2. Develop standards & best practices for your organization (use templates!)
  3. Use junctions, tunnels, hidden connections, additional vertices, and/or colored lines to keep lines easy to follow
  4. Use bookmarks to group sections, components, and subtasks
  5. Use annotations - like comments in your code

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FME Best Practices: Organization

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FME Best Practices: Workspace Parameters

  • Metadata for your workspace!
    1. Name
    2. Description
    3. Help
    4. History

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FME Best Practices: Workspace Parameters

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FME Best Practices: Readers

  • Goal: Read as quickly as possible
    1. Only read features/datasets you need.
    2. Only expose needed attributes
    3. Only expose needed features
      1. Let the DB do the hard work before reading data in
      2. Use a bounding box and or SQL WHERE clause where applicable

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FME Best Practices: Writers

  • Goal: Write as quickly as possible
    1. Set write order so writer with the most records runs FIRST - the records in memory will clear the cache faster
    2. Update vs Insert
      1. if geometry is not changing, update records instead of insert because it’s faster to update attributes than to write geometry

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FME Best Practices: Transformers

  1. Reduce duplicated/similar transformers
  2. Use Python sparingly
  3. Use the fewest transformers possible
    1. Don Murray, FME founder says to use <12

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FME Best Practices: Transformers

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Workspace Walkthrough:

Drawing Flowers with FME

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FME Server on AZGeo

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FME Resources

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  • Contact me!

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