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Digital Plan Submissions: How To Build Automated CAD-GIS Workflows

Tiana Warner
May 7, 2020 • 9 min

How to build a service that automatically validates CAD plan submissions and integrates them into your organization’s GIS.

How to Convert CAD to GIS while Preserving Rich Data Structures

Tiana Warner
April 23, 2020 • 6 min

Tips and tutorials for converting CAD to GIS, including how to preserve annotations, symbology, and complex geometries, while adding GIS attributes and spatial context.

How to Convert GIS to CAD while Maintaining Data Quality

Tiana Warner
April 21, 2020 • 6 min

Tips and tutorials to help you convert GIS to CAD, including handling cells/blocks, annotations, symbology, and more. This can apply to alignment sheets, as-builts, and other colla...

New FME Tools for Cityworks Integrations

Nathan Hildebrand
January 16, 2019 • 5 min

FME has been a staple in municipal GIS departments for a long time, shuffling data from system to system, format to format, and performing spatial and non-spatial transformations a...

Visualizing Geospatial Data in a Web Browser with Cesium ion and FME

Tiana Warner
October 22, 2018 • 4 min

Learn how to generate 3D data visualizations that anyone can view in a web browser. Cesium ion support is now in FME 2019.0 beta. Watch our webinar to learn more. As informative ...

How Do I Do That in FME? 38 Common GIS Tasks

Christian Berger
October 9, 2018 • 2 min

We are excited to announce a new series of tutorials on the FME Knowledge Center with step-by-step instructions for accomplishing 38 common GIS tasks. With over 450+ transformers ...

The Cartographer’s Guide to FME: 6 Steps to Making Beautiful Maps

Jamey Gillis
December 18, 2017 • 5 min

The best maps are those that embrace both science and art, making them both informative and eye-pleasing, both accurate and expressive. To make this happen, cartography has to inc...

Episode 5: Coders on Couches Drinking Coffee – Drones

Stephanie Warner
August 11, 2017 • 3 min

Grab a coffee and chat with Steve and Dean about why drones are revolutionizing the industry, how they’re being used commercially and recreationally, and what it’s like...

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