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FME 2011 is in the House

James Fee — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 22:23:15 +0000

Well that yearly update has happened once again. Safe Software has released FME 2011 on the world. Rather than rehash some good resources on the subject, let me point you to a couple that should showcase what is new:

Dale Lutz: FME 2011: A Retrospective on Today’s Release – very nerdy look at what it took to get FME 2011 out the door
FME 2011: Spatial Data at Your Command – The official guide to what’s new (spoiler: lots of LiDAR).
Matt Ball: FME 2011 Takes on Point Clouds – More LiDAR goodness.

I’m looking forward to working with 2011 myself. WeoGeo’s ETL functionality is built on Safe’s FME Server which is why I’m never worried a customer will come up with a format that FME doesn’t support (unless it is *cough* Revit *cough* Dale *cough* Don *cough*).

Now that 2011 has happened I’m looking forward to the 2012 beta builds.

*pause* FME goes to eleven!

Safe FME 2010

James Fee — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 05:23:21 +0000

So yea I’m a little late with this as I’ve been really busy this week. Still I wanted to get out the word (assuming that you pay zero attention elsewhere) that Safe has released FME 2010. Now I’ve got no scientific data to back this up, but I’ve imagined that they were done with FME 2010 for a couple weeks now, but had to wait until the new year arrived before they could release it officially. I of course can understand given they probably had everything printed up beforehand and who wants to be they guy telling the accountants that they have to reprint all their material because they wanted to release in 2009.

Or maybe not…

OK so some really great things in 2010 that I’m looking forward to using in production is the improved metadata support and of course the engine that drives WeoGeo, FME Server. Oh Canada!

We hope you enjoy the beer, oh, like I mean the ETL, eh.

Safe FME User Conference 2009 and State of the Map 2009

James Fee — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 23:35:18 +0000

Two great conferences are approaching, and one has a early bird deadline right around the corner.

The Safe FME User Conference 2009 (June 11th & 12th) early bird rate ends April 3rd, 2009. If you are planning on attending, you should jump on the savings ($875 vs $2250) right away. Don’t forget this year it is in beautiful Whistler, BC rather than “dirty old” Vancouver, BC. (I’m joking of course, they have it rough up there in BC). Me, I’ve never been to the FME UC or Whistler, but I’m going this year and I’m excited and so should you. If there is ever a reason to take a look at FME it is now when you have to do more, with less.

The State of the Map (July 10th – 12th) is also open for registration. I’ve never been and probably won’t be going this year (I’ll be here), but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t try if you won’t be going to San Diego in July.

Safe Releases FME 2009

James Fee — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 02:15:23 +0000

Today Safe Software released FME 2009. I’ve was unable to take the 2009 beta for a spin (being busy is a good thing these days), but there are three new formats supported that really have me excited; CityGML 1.0, Adobe Geospatial PDF and OpenStreetMap XML (come to think of it Autodesk 3ds support might come in handy at the old architecture studio). Plus the 20% performance increase over FME 2008 will be a welcome change of pace from software that gets slower as it “improves”. The improved user interface of Workbench should increase usability for those who are used to other geoprocessing software packages. Safe has a “What’s Great” brochure available that outlines the improvements in more detail.