Presentation by Gamze Cetken, Puget Sound Energy at the Seattle FME World Tour event.

1. LOADING PARCELS INTO
SMALLWORLD GIS
VIA FME
Gamze Cetken
Sr. GIS Technical Systems Analyst

2. Before 2012
Raster Data
AutoCAD
After 2012
Vector Data
GE Smallworld –
EO/GDO 4.2
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PSE GIS HISTORY

3. University of
Washington
Forestry
Department
Advantages
Statewide Normalized Data
Free
Disadvantages
Not the latest County
Parcel Data
Takes long time between
the updates
Risk – Funding Issues
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PARCELS…FIRST ATTEMPT

4. Direct
Download/Purchase
from Counties
Advantages
Latest Updates
whenever required
Disadvantages
Data not normalized
Not just different fields
but different data
capturing techniques
as well
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PARCELS…CURRENT PROCESS

5. Getting Data
from Counties
• Shapefile
• Shapefile with
Assessor
Table
FME (SAFE
Software)
• Workbenches
specific for
each county
• Field to Field
Mapping
GE Smallworld
• Parcel and
Address
• 1: many
relationship
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THE BIG PLAN
EXTRACT TRANSFORM LOAD

6. EXTRACT
• Easy
• Which fields do we need in GIS?
TRANSFORM
• Hard
• Data Analysis, Data Manipulation, Data Reprojection
• Right tools need to be selected – otherwise no Load
LOAD
• Medium
• All mandatory fields need to be populated including hidden
fields
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ETL – EXTRACT TRANSFORM LOAD

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WHY TRANSFORM AND FME TOOLS ARE
SO IMPORTANT?
“System of
Record”
as-is
FME Tools
addressing
each
county’s
data issues
Successful
Load into
GIS

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A SIMPLE PROCESS IN FME

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Different Parcel IDs
Same Polygon Area
Different Addresses
• Data: Parcel Shapefile
• Use : Multi Family Residence
EXAMPLE-1
SNOHOMISH COUNTY DATA

10. Result:
• 6 Parcel and Parcel
Annotation entries
at the same location
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EXAMPLE-1
SNOHOMISH COUNTY
23709 and 23711
placed on top of
each other
ISSUE

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EXAMPLE-1
SNOHOMISH COUNTY FME WORKBENCH

12. Result:
• Successful load of
parcels and
addresses
• Successful Parcel
Annotation
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EXAMPLE-1
SNOHOMISH COUNTY RESULT

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EXAMPLE-2
THURSTON COUNTY DATA
• Data: Parcel Shapefile
• Use : Multi Family Residence
Different
Parcel IDs
Different Unit
Numbers
Address:
1700 Cooper Point Rd SW

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EXAMPLE-2
THURSTON COUNTY ISSUE

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EXAMPLE-2
THURSTON COUNTY RESULT

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EXAMPLE-3
KITTITAS COUNTY
• Data : Parcel Shapefile and Assessor Data in MS Access
DATA

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EXAMPLE-3
KITTITAS COUNTY
02602 N Columbia St Ellensburg
Issue #1:
• House Number is not stored in
a separate field.
• In GIS House Number is a
mandatory field
Issue #2:
• In some addresses house
numbers do not exist
ISSUE
House#
Prefix
Street
Name
Type
City
Evergreen Way EastonStreet
Name
Type
City

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EXAMPLE-3
KITTITAS COUNTY FME WORKBENCH

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EXAMPLE-3
KITTITAS COUNTY RESULT

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EXAMPLE-3
KITTITAS COUNTY RESULT

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EXAMPLE-4
KITSAP COUNTY
• Data: Parcel Shapefile and Address Point Shapefile
DATA

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EXAMPLE-4
KITSAP COUNTY ISSUE
 One or more address
points per parcel

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EXAMPLE-4
KITSAP COUNTY FME WORKBENCH

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EXAMPLE-4
KITSAP COUNTY RESULT

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EXAMPLE-4
KITSAP COUNTY RESULT
ESRI SW GIS

26. FME
Different Data
Capturing
Methods
Parcel IDs
missing
Full Address
lines
Empty
Address
fields
Using “XXX”
when house
numbers are not
available
House
Numbers
missing
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COMMON DATA PROBLEMS

27. White Space
Management
Script run after parcels
are inserted
House Numbers with
“0” values are not
shown
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PARCEL ANNOTATION

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INTERIM PARCEL UPDATE PROCESS
• All County Parcels
• Source: County
• Source Data = CountyGIS (e.g. KitsapGIS)
Existing
• All New Development Area Parcels
• Source: CAD Files, County (new additions)
• Source Data = PSE
Temporary
• Placeholder Status for newly inserted county parcels
• Insert all new parcels as “Planned”
• Delete “Existing” old version of County Parcels
• Then change all parcels with “Planned” status to “Existing”
Planned
Parcel Status Parcel Update Process

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HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE?
Parcel Update
Process
Insert Parcel Data
into GIS via FME
45 min to 6 hrs
Delete “Existing”
Parcels
6 to 12 hours
Change “Planned”
Parcels’ Status to
“Existing”
25 min to 1 hr
Place Parcel
Annotation
2 to 10 days
Merge and Post
to Top
12 to 18 hours
Min Time : 2 days 19 hrs
Max Time : 11 days 13 hrs

30.  UpdateDetector Transform Tool
 We will focus only on Updates/Deletes and New Inserts
 It will save us time (weeks) by omitting the duplicated effort
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WHAT’S NEXT?

31. THANK YOU
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QUESTIONS?

32. 32BAKER RIVER HYDROELECTRIC
PUGET SOUND ENERGY
Gamze Cetken
Sr. GIS Systems Analyst
gamze.cetken@pse.com
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