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Whats Great 2007
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Summary of Highlights
- FME 2007 includes over 2100 user-requested enhancements - three times more than FME 2006 GB – and features extensive enhancements to FME's raster capability. With this release, FME now stands alone in the spatial ETL industry as the only solution offering Extract, Transform, and Load capabilities for both vector and raster data. We've added over 50 new transformers, 20 of which are specifically for manipulating raster data. Nine newly-added raster formats include HDF4/HDF4-EOS ASTER/Hyperion formats, ERDAS Raw, and RADARSAT2. For the first time, a WMS reader is also included in FME.
- Fifteen new vector formats include ASPRS LIDAR Data Exchange Format (read-only), GeoRSS, and GeoConcept – a format used extensively in France. (GeoConcept writing support has been added to existing reading support.)
- Users who need to display their data in multiple languages will benefit from enhanced support for text-based formats that support Unicode character encoding schemes, and we've improved FME's support for measures as well. The MRFCleaner - a geometry cleaning transformer that made its debut in FME 2006 GB - now cleans 3D data. Linear optimization technology available through a new Curvefitter transformer allows users to replace multiple line segments with arcs, producing more visually appealing linework while reducing file size by up to 80%. FME Workbench includes many usability enhancements, which are described below.
| Functionality | # of new items |
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| New Vector Formats | 15 |
| New Raster Formats | 9 |
| New Transformers | 57 |
| New Factories + Functions | 23 |
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General
Splashscreen
The 2007 splashscreen has a crop-circle motif. No bananas or lizards in sight! OK, I spoke too soon - in the final version up popped the lizard! SURPRISE!
Applications
Workbench
This section is an overview of the major Workbench enhancements implemented in FME 2007. The focus of these changes is to help maximize user efficiency and productivity. A special FME training module - "What's New in FME 2007" - provides additional instructions on how to use several of these new functions.
- New 'Overview' window (below) lets you see your entire workspace at a glance, and easily navigate to different parts of the workspace. This window is turned off by default - use View > Window > Overview to turn it on.
- The transformer gallery (below) is now customizable. You can make your own folders and store your favourite transformers there for quick access. These folders get saved as an external definition so you can share them with other users.
- An advanced setting under each reader allows the user to select which feature types to read. This setting is publishable and can be used from the command line (as shown in the log window below). This permits the user to run a workspace only on a selected number of layers (feature types).
- New options...
- Working with large workspaces is easier now, as there are no longer lengthy delays when doing many operations, like dragging objects or creating links. This was part of an undo/redo overhaul. Now, instead of backing up the workspace after every action, the recover file is written every x minutes (5 minutes by default, but this is a user-definable setting).
- Option to show transformer version.
- Incomplete transformers are now shown in red in the navigation pane (and have a separate section to identify them) - note how the transformer version is also being shown.
- Source feature types can now be updated (below), so if the schema of your data changes the workspace can be kept up to date.
- New advanced workspace settings
- Settings to define Python and TCL scripts to run before a workspace executes, and after the workspace is completed.
- Setting to select reprojection engine to use (currently FME and ESRI - ESRI only if ArcGIS is installed)
- Max Features in Memory - a setting to control FME's use of memory v disk caching - the higher the number the more features are held in memory as opposed to disk cached (faster but more risky)
- Max logged features to record - FME now writes a spatial log file. This setting determines how many features get logged
- Windows can now be docked beside each other (below). For instance the Workspace tree and the Transformer gallery can be seen at the same time, instead of being tabbed.
- New toolbar buttons (as below - but subject to change)...
- Export as .fme
- Prompt & Run
- Destination Override - Route to Visualizer
- Show/Hide Feature Connections Pane
- Show/Hide Attribute Connections Pane
- Launch FME Viewer
- Manual attribute connections can be automatically replaced with an AttributeCopier transformer.
1) Attribute connections manually placed...
2) Right-click link and choose Replace with AttributeCopier...
3) Manual connections automated by replacement AttributeCopier.
- New editor dialog (below) for entering and editing TCL and Python scripts.
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FME Universal Viewer
- The Viewer will now show attributes in non-system encodings properly. For instance, Shapefiles with unicode attributes will show properly no matter what locale your system is in.
Above: Japanese attribute as shown in the FME Viewer. The fake data is a line from HHGTTG (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hhgttg) converted using FreeTranslation.com (http://www.freetranslation.com)!
SpatialDirect
- The Translation Servlet component will use the new, enhanced QServer, providing enhanced request management and recovery.
FME Spatial ETL Server
- The new FME Spatial ETL Server will be released, bundling together the new QServer and FME Server to provide an integrated mid and back end translation system for enterprise level operations.
Above: Spatial ETL Server configuration
Formats
Vector Formats
New Vector Formats
- ASPRS LIDAR Data Exchange Format (LAS) Reader
- BC MoF Electronic Submission Format - FSP (Forest Stewardship Plan) Reader and Writer
- EPA Geospatial Data (XML) Reader: see http://www.epa.gov/enviro/geo_data.html.
- ESRI ArcGIS 9.x Layer Reader
- FDO Providers Reading and Writing
- AutoCAD Map 3D 2007 and 2008 Providers (need AutoCAD Map 3D 2007 or 2008 installed)
- Open Source Providers
- Generic Writer
- GeoConcept writer. (Note reader was added in FME 2006GB already)
- GeoRSS Reader and Writer
- JobXML Reader.
- KML 2.1 Reader and Writer
- Microsoft MapPoint Web XML
- SDF3 Reader and Writer
- SQLite 3 Reader and Writer
- Text Feature Store Reader and Writer
- Fixed Schema Format
- Variable Schema Format
- VoxelGeo OpenInventor Writer (Beta)
Vector Format Updates
- AutoCAD now supports Release 2007 files.
- BC MoF Electronic Submission Format - FTA (Forest Tenure Application) Reader and Writer updated to FTA 4.0 v9
- Following formats have been updated to support character encodings
- ArcSDE Reader and Writer
- Comma Separated Value
- dBASE III (dbf) Reader and Writer
- Geodatabase Reader and Writer (Personal, File, and Enterprise)
- Geodatabase XML Reader
- Microsoft Access Database (Attributes Only) Reader and Writer
- Microsoft Excel File Reader and Writer
- Microsoft SQL Server (Attributes Only) Reader and Writer
- MicroStation Reader and Writer (Windows platform only)
- text and text node features only
- Oracle Spatial (Object) Reader and Writer
- Oracle Database (Attributes Only) Reader and Writer
- Shape Reader and Writer
- SQLite 3 (Attributes Only) Reader and Writer
- Text File Reader and Writer
- Following formats have been updated to support rich geometry
- Oracle Spatial Reader and Writer (also supports measures)
- MicroStation Reader and Writer
- Intergraph MGE Reader and Writer
- MicroStation GeoGraphics V7/V8 Reader and Writer
- AutoCAD Reader and Writer
- GeoMedia Warehouse Reader and Writer (Access and SQL Server)
- Geodatabase XML Reader
- ESRI ArcGIS 9.x Map Reader
- FFS Reader and Writer
- Shape Reader and Writer
- MapInfo MIF/MID Reader and Writer
- MapInfo TAB Reader and Writer (both versions)
- XML Reader xfMap:
- Added xml-text geometry builder allowing rich text geometry to be constructed onto a feature.
- Creating xfMap files for custom XML formats is easier than ever with the new control given by the xfMap ‘structure’ element: flatten arbitrary xml sub-trees to attributes in a single stroke!
- Added the parent option to the scope attribute on the <counter> expression allowing a mapping rule to access its parent's counter dictionary. The <counter> was also augmented with <arg> options.
- Added regular expression matching and replacing to the <strexpr> element.
- Updated GPX reading to version 1.1
- German AAA GML Exchange Format (NAS) Reader: updated locally stored NAS schemas to version 5.1.
- GML:
- GML/GMLSF writers: text features are now written as point geometries, they previously they were written as non-geometrical.
- Added arc (3 pnts coincident to arc) support to curve segments, i.e., added <gml:Arc> support.
- OS MasterMap Reader: Updated AddressPoint reading to reflect the "OSDNFFeatures.xsd 3.9 2006/06/26" and "OSComplexTypes.xsd 3.12 2006/06/29" schemas.
- Oracle Spatial (Object) and Oracle Database (Attributes only) reader/writer
- Support for NCHAR/NVARCHAR columns
- Writer now has an option to reject features whose attributes' values cannot be written without truncation.
- Oracle Spatial now supports reading topology
- ArcGISMap Reader: Added the ability to resolve domains.
- Geodatabase
- ArcSDE Reader/Writer: added support for reading and writing archived tables and feature classes
- ArcSDE Reader/Writer: added ability to connect using OSA mode
- GeoDatabase SDE Reader/Writer: Support for archive reading using a where clause constrained by a date range
- File Writer: added support for compressing a file geodatabase
- File, Personal, ArcSDE Reader/Writer: added character encoding support
- File, Personal, ArcSDE Reader/Writer: added the ability to read and write metadata found on tables/feature classes
- File, Personal, ArcSDE Reader: support for reading feature-linked annotations and merging them onto the linked feature
- File, Personal, ArcSDE Writer: added the option to specify width of integer-based columns, and width and precision of decimal/float-based columns
- File, Personal, ArcSDE Writer: when writing to ArcGIS 9.2, allow users to set the scales and origins at the feature type level as well as the writer level. Previously, the values supplied by ArcObjects were always used when ArcGIS 9.2 was installed
- ArcSDE
- Writer: added support for writing GUIDs
- Writer: added support for setting tolerance when writing to ArcSDE 9.2. If it's not set, it will automatically be calculated
- Microstation DGNV8
- Writer: DGNV8 now supports writing named un-shared cells
Raster Formats
New Raster Formats
- ERDAS Raw Reader: Reads various numeric and color rasters without palettes.
- GIF Writer: Writes GIF rasters, not vector features that become rasters.
- HDF4/HDF4-EOS ASTER Reader: Reads ASTER HDF4 datasets.
- HDF4/HDF4-EOS Hyperion Reader: Reads Hyperion HDF4 datasets.
- National Imagery Transmission Format (NITF) Writer (added to existing reader)
- PNG Writer: Writes PNG rasters, not vector features that become rasters.
- RADARSAT2 Reader: Reads RADARSAT2 XML datasets.
- TIFF Reader/Writer: Reads and writes plain TIFF rasters (not GeoTIFFs) and their corresponding world files.
- WMS Reader client: Supports WMS 1.1.0, 1.1.1 and 1.3.0.
Raster Format Updates
- Erdas raw: Added reading and writing of user attributes.
- Erdas raw: Added option for individual feature types per source dataset.
- Erdas raw: Added nodata value support.
- ESRI .hdr: Added reading and writing of user attributes.
- ESRI .hdr: Added option for individual feature types per source dataset.
- ESRI .hdr: Added nodata value support.
- Oracle Georaster Writer: Added multiband support.
- Oracle Georaster Writer: Added basic GCP storage support.
- SDE Raster: Added reading and writing of user attributes.
- SDE Raster: Added gray scale support and nodata value support.
- SDE Raster: Added multiband support.
- Enterprise/Asset: Updated to use a fixed schema.
- PlaNet: Updated to use a fixed schema.
Functionality
Transformers
New Transformers
- ArcMeasureExtractor: Sets the given attributes to the values of a measure.
- ArcMeasureSetter: Sets measures on an arc geometry to the values given.
- ArcPropertyExtractor: Sets the given attributes to the properties of an arc geometry.
- ArcPropertySetter: Sets the properties of an arc geometry to those specified.
- ArcSDEGridSnapper: Simulates the ArcSDE conversion on a feature by performing ArcSDE translation, scaling, and coordinate snapping. Useful in verifying what the data will look like once it is in an ArcSDE.
- AttributeExploder: Takes attribute names and turns them into values of a secondary attribute.
- CoordinateSystemDescriptionConverter: Converts coordinate systems between FME and AutoDesk WKT, EPSG, ESRI WKT, MapInfo, OGC WKT, Oracle SRID, and PROJ.4 representations. FME's ability to translate between coordinate system representations, especially for Oracle SRIDs, has been significantly improved.
- Creator: New transformer to create all types of features. Replaces 2DCreator, 3DCreator, ArcCreator, EllipseCreator, and NullGeometryCreator.
- CurveFitter: Generalizes line features and turns point-based lines into paths containing arcs.
Above: Here the CurveFitter transformer replaces multiple line segments with the optimal combination of straight lines and embedded arc segments required to create smooth curving lines.
- EllipsePropertyExtractor: Sets the given attributes to the properties of an ellipse geometry.
- EllipsePropertySetter: Sets the properties of an ellipse geometry as specified.
- FeatureHolder: Stores incoming features until they have all arrived, and then releases them in their original order.
- FMEFunctionCaller: Calls the specified FME Function.
- GeometryRefiner: Refines the geometry of a feature.
- GeometryReplacer: Replaces the geometry of each feature with the one defined by the Geometry parameter.
- GeometryValidator: Evaluates the simplicity or validity of a geometry feature, and routes the feature according to the outcome of the test(s).
- GeoRSSFeatureExtractor: Constructs GeoRSS documents from the input features and stores them in the specified attribute for the features that are output by the GeoRSS port.
- GeoRSSFeatureReplacer: Constructs features from GeoRSS documents/URLs that are stored in an attribute of the input features.
- GtransAttributeReprojector: Reprojects feature attributes using the Gtrans library (from National Land Survey of Sweden).
- GtransReprojector: Reprojects features using the Gtrans library (as above).
- LineMeasureExtractor: Creates a list attribute from values in a measure.
- LineMeasureSetter: Sets the measures on a line geometry to the values in the given Source Measure List Attribute.
- MinimumSpanningCircleReplacer: Replaces the geometry of the feature with a polygon representing its minimum spanning circle.
- NeighborColorSetter: Assigns colors to areas in a coverage such that adjacent areas are colored differently and the total number of colors used is kept small.
Above: an NeighborColorSetter transformer used to colour a map of the world.
- OrientationExtractor: Determines the feature's orientation and returns it in the specified Orientation Attribute.
- ParameterFetcher: Adds an attribute to the feature, supplying it the value of a parameter.
- PartCounter: Returns the number of parts in the geometry.
- PathSplitter: Decomposes a path feature into its component segments.
- PointMeasureExtractor: Sets the Destination Measure Attribute to the value of the measure named by Source Measure Name.
- PointMeasureSetter: Sets the measure on a point geometry to Measure Value.
- PointOnRasterOverlayer: Adds raster band and palette data as attributes on points.
- PythonCreator: Uses a Python script to create features.
- Rasterizer: Converts vector features to rasters.
Above: a Rasterizer transformer was used to convert an Ordnance Survey vector dataset (left) into a GeoTIFF raster dataset (right).
- RasterBandCombiner: Creates a single multibanded raster from multiple single banded rasters.
- RasterBandNodataSetter: Sets or flags the nodata value of a raster at the band level.
- RasterBandPropertiesExtractor: Extracts the band and palette properties of a raster feature and exposes them as attributes.
- RasterBandSeparator: Creates multiple single banded rasters from an input multibanded raster.
- RasterDEMGenerator: Generates a Digital Elevation Model (DEM) represented as Raster from the input POINTS, BREAKLINES, and 3D_LINES.
- RasterGeoreferencer: Georeferences a raster.
- RasterInterpretationCoercer: Converts the interpretation of selected band(s) or palette(s) on a raster. Replaces the now deprecated RasterColorModelCoercer and RasterDataTypeCoercer.
- RasterMosaicker: Mosaics multiple rasters into one raster. The number of bands and palettes is preserved.
- RasterNodataRemover: Removes the nodata flags of all selected bands and all of their palettes.
- RasterPaletteNodataSetter: Sets or flags the nodata value of a raster at the palette level.
- RasterPaletteRemover: Removes the selected palette(s) of a raster.
- RasterPaletteResolver: Resolves rasters with palettes into rasters without palettes.
- RasterPointExtractor: Renamed from GridPointExtractor. Decomposes all input numeric raster features into individual points.
- RasterPropertiesExtractor: Extracts the general raster properties of a raster feature and exposes them as attributes.
- RasterReader: Reads and outputs raster features from the specified format and dataset.
- RasterRGBCreator: Creates a feature with a raster of the specified size with general value using the parameters supplied.
- RasterSelector: Selects the bands and palettes to be operated on by subsequent transformers.
- SummaryReporter: Writes a summary report of features that enter to a disk file.
- TextAdder: Sets the feature's geometry to text with the previous geometry as the text location.
- TextLocationExtractor: Sets a text feature's geometry to the location of the text.
- TextPropertyExtractor: Sets the given attributes to the properties of a text geometry.
- TextPropertySetter: Sets the properties of a text geometry to the specified properties.
- URLFetcher: Retrieves the contents of the specified URL and stores them in a specified attribute.
- VariableSetter/VariableRetriever: New transformers to replace GlobalVariableSetter and GlobalVariableRetriever. Creates and sets the specified variable to the specified value/Reads the specified variable and puts its value into the specified attribute. New "Variable Scope" parameter can be set to "local" if you do not want the variable to be used outside of the custom transformer it is created in.
Transformer Updates
- Offsetter: Added raster support.
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Above: Clipper and Offsetter transformers used to cut up and shuffle a raster image.
- Scaler: Added raster support.
- UniformRasterClassifier: Deprecated for FME 2007.
- VariableRasterClassifier: Deprecated for FME 2007.
- RasterPaletteCreator: Deprecated for FME 2007.
- ColorRasterCreator: Renamed to RasterRGBCreator.
- RasterRGBCreator: Added checkerboard option.
- NumericRasterCreator: Renamed to RasterNumericCreator.
- RasterNumericCreator: Added checkerboard option.
- DEMRasterGenerator: Renamed to RasterDEMGenerator.
- Counter now has a "Count Scope" parameter, which can be set to "local" if you do not want the count sequence to be shared between Counter instances.
- LineJoiner: Added List Name to propogate input attributes to output features.
- PolygonBuilder: Added List Name (so input attributes appear on the corresponding output feature).
- DonutBuilder: Added Hole List Name (so input attributes from features that become holes appear on the corresponding output donut).
- PythonCaller: Simplified UI; now uses PythonFactory instead of @Python.
- GMLFeatureReplacer: Added the INVALID_GML output port where features with invalid GML are output if the "Fail On Invalid GML" parameter is false.
Factories
New Factories
- AttributeFactory: Takes a feature with attributes and separates them as new pair of
attributes in individual cloned features, or makes a list of its attributes as a new list attribute in the processed feature.
- DEMDistanceFactory:Renamed from NVectors1RasterToNRastersFactory.This is a multi-purpose factory for merging multiple vectors onto a raster and potentially producing multiple rasters as output. As of this release, it is used only to implement the DEM Distance operation as described in the DEMDistanceCalculator transformer writeup.
- GeoRSSFactory: Constructs features from GeoRSS documents or feeds that are stored in an attribute of the input features, or constructs GeoRSS documents from features.
- LLOutlineAndCentroidFactory: Uses a provided DLS, NTS or FPS data string and an optional bitFlag string to calculate the outline and the latitude-longitude centroid of a designated area.
- NeighborColorSetterFactory: Assigns colors to areas in a coverage such that adjacent areas are
colored differently, and the total number of colors used is kept small.
- PythonFactory: Implement your own factory using Python.
- RasterMergerFactory: Creates a single multibanded raster from multiple single banded rasters.
- RasterMosaicFactory: Mosaics multiple rasters into one raster. The number of bands and palettes is preserved.
- RasterSplitterFactory/RasterBandSeparatorFactory: Creates multiple single banded rasters from an input multibanded raster.
- RasterToVectorFactory: Vectorizes a raster data into a grid of points.
- VectorOnRasterOverlayFactory: An overlay process to supply vector point features with the value of the nearest raster cell
- VectorToRasterFactory: Converts vector features to rasters.
Factory Updates
- Clipping Factory: Reduced memory usage when clipping rasters.
- Clipping Factory: Added whole inside case when clipping rasters.
- Raster Creation Factory: Added gray scale support.
- VectorToRaster Factory: Add option to specify output size in terms of spacing/cell size.
- NVectors1RasterToNRasters Factory: Renamed to DEMDistanceDactory.
- GridToVector Factory: Deprecated for lines. Point will still work.
- RasterSegmentation Factory: Deprecated.
- Arc Factory: Added LIST_NAME to propogate input attributes to output features.
- Polygon Factory: Added LIST_NAME (so input attributes appear on the corresponding output feature) and ALLOW_CYCLES.
- Donut Factory: Added HOLE_LIST (so input attributes from features that become holes appear on the corresponding output donut) and ALLOW_CYCLES.
- SpatialFilter Factory: Much more efficient - some datasets see a speed increase of over 20x.
- GML2Factory: Added INVALID_GML output port.
- VoronoiCellGenerator: Added the "Ensure Topological Correctness" option to output results as a well-noded coverage.
Functions
New Functions
- @Geometry: Provides a number of ways to retrieve properties of a feature's geometry, and to replace or modify the geometry.
- @GeoreferenceRaster: Sets the spacing and extents of a raster feature to user specified parameters.
- @GridSnapper: Simulates writing to an ArcSDE by performing scaling and coordinate snapping. Useful in verifying what the data will look like once it is in an ArcSDE.
- @MinimumSpanningCircle: Converts the geometry of the feature to the minimum spanning circle.
- @RasterNodata: Sets or flags the nodata value of a raster at the band or palette level or removes the nodata values from a raster feature.
- @RasterProperties: Extracts either the general raster properties or the band and palette properties of a raster feature and exposes them as attributes.
- @ReinterpretRasterFunction: Changes the underlying interpretation of a raster to the selected interpretation when written.
- @RemoveRasterPalettes: Removes the palettes from a band directly, leaving the band values unchanged.
- @ReplaceRasterCellValues: Replaces ranges of values in a numeric raster with a new value.
- @ResolveRasterPalettes: Resolves the palettes from a band by applying the palette lookups to the band values. The palette is then removed.
- @SelectRaster: Selects the bands and palettes to be operated on by subsequent transformers.
Function Updates
- @Reproject: Performance improvements for reprojecting rasters.
- @Reproject: Added interpolation types: Bilinear and Cubic.
- @Reproject: Added support for the soon-to-be-published DHDN grid shift file for Germany.
- @Reproject: Added new coordinate systems, including the new conformal conic systems for France.
- @Reproject: Added support for the Gtrans reprojection library from the National Land Survey of Sweden.
- @ResampleRaster: Performance improvements for resampling rasters.
- @ResampleRaster: Added interpolation types: Bilinear and Cubic.
- @RasterCellValueReplacer: Renamed to @ReplaceRasterCellValues.
- @RasterPaletteResolver: Renamed to @ResolveRasterPalettes.
- @RasterInterpretationConversion: Renamed to @ReinterpretRaster.
- @RasterBlur: Deprecated.
- @RasterSegment: Deprecated.
- @RasterColorModelConversion: Deprecated.
- @RasterDataTypeConversion: Deprecated.
- @RasterClassification: Deprecated for FME2007. Will be rewritted for a future release and renamed @ClassifyRaster.
Coordinate Systems
- New Workbench setting allows users to use an alternate reprojection engine (eg ESRI ArcGIS reprojection)
- Over 75 new datums and 5 new ellipsoids have been added. The grid shift files are easy to manage through the FME Universal Translator user interface. Start the FME Universal Translator. From the Tools menu, select Options and then click the Grid Shift Files tab.
Developer SDKs
- N ew C++ sample reader/writer plug-in that demonstrates:
- rich geometry
- fixed schema reading
- variable schema reading
- single-channel writing
- multi-channel writing
- settings box input
- coordinate system handling
- UNIX Makefile
- Visual studio projects
- complete documentation including sequence diagrams and detailed format specification (BNF)
- test cases (mapping files and workspaces)
- Updated Java sample reader/writer plug-in that demonstrates:
- rich geometry
- settings box input
- FME Objects C++ and Java API now provide full access to FME's new rich geometry model.
Vendor Specific Highlights
Highlights for Autodesk Users
- FME 2007 Autodesk Edition reads and writes AutoCAD 2007 files, and Autodesk's updated SDF3 format. FME 2007 also builds on Safe's tradition of adding value to Autodesk products by introducing the FME FDO Provider. The FME FDO Provider provides AutoCAD Map 3D 2007 and 2008 with additional direct read ability for over 100 FME-supported formats through new open source Feature Data Objects (FDO) technology. In addition to providing notably more extensive format support than other FDO data sources, the FME FDO Provider is a convenient way to view or import data while applying over 270 spatial data transformation options offered in FME's Workbench application. FME 2007 also features numerous minor enhancements to Autodesk format support, including better support for hatches.
Highlights for ESRI Users
- FME 2007 ESRI Edition will include, for the first time, support for ArcGIS Engine and Server deployments, and the new File Geodatabse format. Other highlights include improved support for Enterprise Geodatabase and ArcSDE. FME 2007 is compatible with and extends the ESRI ArcGIS Data Interoperability extension at 9.2. It also includes a beta integration with ESRI's coordinate reprojection engine.
Highlights for Informatica Users
- The FME Extension for Informatica makes its debut in this release. This extension brings spatial data to the enterprise, and allows PowerCenter users to build a single ETL solution that leverages both their spatial and non-spatial data assets.
Highlights for Microsoft Users
- The FME Extension for Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) is available for the first time in this release. The FME Extension for SSIS makes over 190 spatial data formats available to the SSIS environment and provides SSIS users with over 270 data transformation options which can be applied to data using FME Workbench's easy to use graphical interface.
Highlights for Oracle Users
- FME 2007 Oracle Edition users will find loading raster data simpler and faster with FME 2007's high-performance spatial ETL capability. Users will also benefit from enhanced support for reading coordinate systems, as well as new support for arcs included in linear or polygonal features.
