FME Store
This new marketplace provides components that plug into FME to offer even more possibilities for using and sharing spatial data. Supplied both by Safe Software and 3rd party partners either for free or licensed, these components help you gain efficiency, additional functionality, and a head start on your spatial data transformation workflows.
Offerings currently include Custom Transformers and workspace templates, and soon, Custom Formats will also be available. These components can easily be accessed directly within FME Workbench.
Components available at this time include the following:
PenBay InVision ToolkitSM
InVision ToolkitSM offers data conversion from a variety of sources, including CAD files, into a single GIS database quickly and easily. Built on top of Safe Software's FME template, InVision ToolkitSM: CAD <-> GIS harvests data from US National CAD Standard drawings and outputs them to Esri's ArcGIS for Facilities information model. Features of InVision ToolkitSM include automated conversion of data, along with error checking, to identify deficiencies in the source drawings and correct them. It supports both BISDM 3.0 and local government data models under the same license.
SeaZone VorfTransformer
An important element of any marine project will be the associated bathymetry. Bathymetry datasets will be referenced to different vertical datums. The specific vertical datum used may depend on the collection method or intended purpose. Using different datasets together can therefore be difficult. To overcome this, a transformation process is necessary to reference all the data to a common vertical datum. Identifying this requirement, SeaZone has recently introduced their VorfTransformer. The SeaZone VorfTransformer for FME Desktop is a plug-in for FME Workbench. Current and legacy bathymetry data can now be processed using the power and flexibility of FME and the VORF vertical datum transformation can be deployed in an FME Workbench process. The SeaZone VorfTransformer is offered as a product that you can implement in your own FME Workbench processes.
VORF is the Vertical Offshore Reference Frame. It provides a set of surfaces defining the separation between marine vertical datums and an ellipsoid. VORF transformation surfaces cover the continental shelf of the UK and Ireland. The project to develop VORF was commissioned by the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office (UKHO). SeaZone was not involved in the development of VORF but we have used the transformation surfaces produced during the project in the VorfTransformer.
SeaZone's implementation of VORF is not endorsed by the UKHO.
And many more to be added soon. Check back regularly, either here or directly through FME Workbench, to find out what's recently become available.
