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Extracting Geospatial Data from PDFs: Top 3 Challenges

Tiana Warner
August 7, 2018 • 5 min

You’ve been given a dataset that promises to contain valuable information. It’s got maps, measurements, CAD drawings—everything you need to do a great job! Except (sad trombo...

Medicine + GIS: The University of Oxford is Mapping Eyes

Erin Lemky
October 27, 2016 • 8 min

The University of Oxford is mapping the human eye, with GIS & FME, to assess the progression of genetic eye diseases and the effectiveness of new treatments.

Aviation Weather: MeteoSwiss Enhances SIGMET & AIRMET Alerts with Maps

Kris Majury
September 16, 2014 • 5 min

MeteoSwiss enhances aviation weather alerts with maps, using FME to interpret text-based reports and FME Server to automate production and distribute PDF results.

11 Reasons You Should Have a Data Integration Plan

Tiana Warner
April 9, 2014 • 10 min

Data integration means combining information from various sources into something useful. A data integration plan efficiently manages data and makes it available to those who need i...

FME 2011 Use Case: QR Codes

Mark Ireland
July 19, 2011 • 11 min

I've been getting interested recently in QR codes - having seen them becoming more prominent in daily life - and wondered if there were any useful applications for them using FME. ...

FME2011 Use Case: Numeric Raster Surfaces

Mark Ireland
March 18, 2011 • 8 min

I created this workspace to take a numeric raster (other than a DEM) and create a textured surface out of it, and I think the results are quite impressive. It shows US rainfall pat...

A Spotters Guide to Textured Formats in FME

Mark Ireland
April 19, 2010 • 2 min

A very short post about which formats in FME currently support the reading and writing of 3D textures and appearances.

Appearances can be Deceiving

Mark Ireland
April 6, 2010 • 6 min

This is a brief post about appearances (textures and colours) and how they can be applied to 3D surfaces within FME Workbench.