Tony Myers provides tips and tricks for using FME (Feature Manipulation Engine) software. He discusses using FME to process data from seismic and environmental sensors into various formats like Google Earth and 3D PDF. The document also describes establishing a BGS FME User Group, using productivity transformers, scheduling FME jobs, and emailing results. Keeping an old FME installation is suggested for comparing behavior between versions.

1. Sensor, Tips and Tricks
Tony Myers
British Geological Survey

2. About Me
Tony Myers,
Cartographer

3. Paper to BIM

4. FME jobs last week
OS MasterMap GML to GDB
DiGMap V8 geology GDB to any GIS
HS2 route XML to BIM
UAE AGS, GDB to 3D geology XML
Sensors

5. Sensors
Tromino – Seismic waves
Sensornet – Temperature, pressure,
levels, pH, conductivity,
contamination, movement…………

6. An instrument for
passive and active
seismic surveying and
vibration monitoring
http://www.tromino.eu/
Tromino

7. FME used to:
read spreadsheet of survey points,
combine with Tromino imagery to
produce multiple outputs
e.g. Google Earth and 3D PDF

8. Google Earth

9. A network of semi-
wireless sensors for
studying the
environment
https://youtu.be/awERzxFbeWo
Sensornet

10. FME used to:
read near real-time XML from web,
compare with existing Oracle records
and write new data to Oracle

14. Tips and Tricks
BGS FME User Group
Productivity FME Transformers
Scheduling with FME desktop
Emailing with FME desktop
Keep an old FME installation

15. BGS FME User Group
Informal meeting once a month
Open invite to all potential users
Solve new problems together
Showcase work done
Share workbenches

16. Productivity FME Transformers
Directory and File Pathnames reader
Workspace Runner transformer
Together they use less PC resources

17. Searches 10000 files and runs 1000

18. Scheduling with FME desktop
Create FME workbench
Save as FME file as well as FMW file
Create text batch file to run FME file
Schedule text batch file using Windows

19. Create FME workbench

20. Save as FME file

21. Create text batch file
"C:appsFMEfme.exe"
"kwsanworkspacePPCartoSouthDataGIS_proj
ectsFMESENSORNET_Water_Level_URL2Oracle_d
ata_nodes_2015_08_onwards_BGSPROD.fme"

22. Schedule text batch file

23. Email with FME desktop
Establish an email server e.g. via AcrGIS server
Create email string attribute within workbench
http://nercbgskwarc101/FMEEmailAlert/WebService.ashx?
EMAIL_TO=tonym@bgs.ac.u&EMAIL_SUBJECT=Sensornet daily data download&EMAIL_BODY=Ran OK
last night
Send to email server using the FME HTTPcaller
Replaced with FME 2016.1 Emailer transformer?

24. Email with FME desktop

25. Keep an old FME installation
FME updates always deliver improvements
But sometimes transformers and writers behave
differently e.g. Adobe 3D PDF now uses PRC rather
than U3D encoding
Keep an old installation to compare

26. Thank you!
tonym@bgs.ac.uk