FME Customer Stories | Safe Software

City of Burnaby

The City of Burnaby needed to provide a “Call Before You Dig” service to ensure the protection...

City of Lévis

The City of Lévis wanted to optimize the data sharing and delivery process for managing pothole...

Santa Clara County

Santa Clara County had the goal of improving their emergency services response time and location...

City of Henderson

The City of Henderson partnered with Consortech to simplify and automate CAD to GIS conversion as...

Warwickshire County Council

Warwickshire County Council wanted a broader understanding of the county’s health and social care...

GHD Inc.

GHD wanted to gather business intelligence from financial data by performing natural language...

Denver International Airport (DEN)

Denver International Airport has to manage facilities and building information models (BIM) that...

Finavia & Spatialworld

Finavia worked with Spatialworld to improve the safety and operations of Finland’s airports...

City of Surrey, Water Meter Improvement Project

The City of Surrey is removing data silos between systems, enabling staff to use the best...

Victoria International Airport (YYJ)

Victoria International Airport (YYJ) wanted to improve passenger experience by enabling indoor...

Beijing Antu & Chongqing Department of Land Resources

With many projects related to Data informatization in China, Antu helps their clients use FME to...

McDonald’s China

McDonald's China needed to integrate data to power business decisions such as new restaurant site...

HERE Technologies

HERE Technologies needed to make their maps attractive, showing the correct level of detail to make...

Alabama Power Company

Alabama Power Company wanted to use UAVs to save cost and increase staff safety for inspections and...

CAE - Creating Winter Scenes

CAE needs to create the imagery that pilots see outside the window in aeronautical simulations for...

Vancouver International Airport (YVR)

The Vancouver International Airport (YVR) wanted to provide passengers with indoor mapping data via...

1Spatial, Live Vessel Tracking

1Spatial was challenged to come up with an automated way of delivering live vessel positions to an...

Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council, Migrating to SharePoint

Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council needed to migrate more than 10 years worth of data into...

FortisBC

FortisBC needed a more efficient way to assess the current wildfire threat to its gas and electric...

FACTO GEO

FACTO GEO needed to prepare hundreds of maps daily to help their surveyors in the field do their...

Bonava & Sweco

Bonava needed to migrate teraybtes of files from various legacy systems in eight countries and...

Comporium

Comporium needed to migrate to GE Smallworld from Esri ArcGIS and Bentley Microstation. They...

AppGeo

New York City’s Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications (DoITT) needed a 3D...

Stad Lier

Stad Lier wanted to analyze a wide range of data in QlikView using efficient techniques. They...

Georgia Power, Metering Services

The Metering Services team at Georgia Power uses FME to compile and analyse data. For example,...

Geoscience Australia & MapData Services

MapData Services needed to help client Geoscience Australia (GA) deliver terabytes of elevation...

DeepOcean

Increasingly, clients of DeepOcean are asking for Seabed Survey Data Model (SSDM) compliant data as...

Surrey Heath Borough Council

The adoption of more cloud-based solutions like Salesforce and Amazon Web Services would provide...

Sterling Geo - 100:1 Project

Sterling Geo needed to demonstrate the value of earth observation (EO) data by delivering between 1...

Iowa DOT APIs

Iowa DOT wanted to build APIs to make their real time public data more accessible, and open it to...

University of Oxford

The University of Oxford is mapping the human eye with GIS & FME to assess the progression of...

Georgetown Utility Systems

Georgetown Utility Systems needed to migrate asset management data to their new system and ensure...

PNM

Since 2002, PNM’s GIS department has used FME for many data automation tasks including...

Golder Associates

Golder Associates needed to summarize air emissions of various chemicals due to residential and...

City of San Jose

The City of San Jose used FME to integrate city silos, and easily adjusted their workflow when...

Georgia Power

Georgia Power uses FME to automate everyday data tasks, such as location comparisons, site...

Arup, Travel Survey

Arup needed to convert raw survey data into a rich, spatially-enabled database for their client,...

City and County of San Francisco

The City and County of San Francisco needed to expand the automated publication of data to its open...

LOGIC Solutions Group & BP Lower 48 Onshore

LOGIC Solutions Group needed to resolve, load, and distribute data from numerous commercial,...

Central Contra Costa Sanitary District

CCCSD needed to clean up and transform the data model of their sanitary sewer GIS into the Esri...

Devon Energy, Well Directional Survey Processing

Devon Energy needed to convert directional survey data for their wells from surface offset values...

City of Ottawa

Ottawa created their city in Minecraft to engage with the next generation of citizens. They used...

we-do-IT

we-do-IT extended the format support for their ERP Mobility System LatLonGO® using FME®. The...

Socrata & New Orleans

The City of New Orleans needed to automatically retrieve economic indicator data from government...

Forsyth County

Forsyth County needed to make their parcel fabric data, which changes dramatically daily,...

City of Calgary

The City of Calgary needed to calculate building elevation points from a LiDAR scan of 400,000...

City of Oak Ridge

The City of Oak Ridge needed to import AutoCAD data into their GIS because their Electric...

GeoManitoba

GeoManitoba needed to take geotagged photos and produce KMZ files with the photos embedded. They...

Socrata & Police Foundation

Partnering with the Police Foundation, analysts at Socrata needed to automate the ingress and...

City of Auburn

The City of Auburn needed to convert raw crimes data from their proprietary Linux system for use in...

NRCan Surveyor General Branch

The Surveyor General Branch of NRCan uses FME to automate their workflows, running them overnight...

City of Austin

The City of Austin annually updates the multitude of maps impacted by annexation. By automating...

California Earthquake Authority

California Earthquake Authority (CEA) needs to know immediately when an earthquake occurs with the...

The Regional Municipality of York

York Region needed to enable their nine municipalities to submit their own water and wastewater...

Dotted Eyes

Dotted Eyes needed to provide UK boundary reference geographies, ready for use in Tableau, via...

Athena Intelligence

Athena Intelligence needed to transform data for integration into Tableau to power decision support...

Mount Vernon

Esri, Mount Vernon, and Quinn Evans Architects collaborated to build a blended BIM-GIS 3D world...

Bohannan Huston

Bohannan Huston needed to perform 3D modeling of culverts to create a flowline network for their...

City of Edmonton

The City of Edmonton’s Sustainable Development department used FME to assign redevelopment...

Vertex3

Vertex3 is helping universities create a campus-wide, seamless Geodatabase from CAD drawings....

Geonovum

After developing a national 3D standard, Geonovum needed to make their open source tools for...

MeteoSwiss

MeteoSwiss wanted to deliver a map view of the aviation special alerts set out by the ICAO to...

Iowa DOT Plowcam

The Iowa Department of Transportation (Iowa DOT) wanted to deliver the near-real-time situational...

Arkansas Geographic Information Systems Office

The Arkansas Geographic Information Systems Office (AGISO) migrated their open data portal to the...

Municipality of Arnhem

The Municipality of Arnhem decided to close the gap between their geo and IT departments, gathering...

Donegal County

Donegal County created a system that delivers storm alerts, road gritting routes, and weather...

Kansas Department of Transportation (KDOT)

Upon the pending depreciation of the Google Earth plug-in, KDOT’s Division of Aviation needed...

Kartverket (Norwegian Mapping Authority)

Kartverket started out with a fun project for a kids’ annual hackathon which turned into a...

City of Oslo

The Agency for Planning and Building Services in Oslo wanted to create a 3D printed model of the...

geoLOGIC

GeoLOGIC needed to remove road allowance gaps from the Western Canada Dominion Land Survey System...

City of Malmö, Sweden

The Malmö City Planning Office wanted to make a 3D printed model of their city. Rather than...

The Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

Lantmäteriet (Swedish Land Survey) provided funding to Sveriges Lantbruksuniversitet (SLU; the...

T. Baker Smith

T. Baker Smith needed to create a company-wide, standardized data store for information collected...

Nottingham City Council

Nottingham City Council needed to automate the production of open datasets in response to the large...

Rambøll

Rambøll needed to manipulate digital terrain models (DTMs) for input into their overland terrain...

con terra

Con terra wanted to provide an integration kit into map.apps as a product for their customers to...

Avista Utilities

Avista Utilities needed to perform large-scale network analysis with their Esri Geometric Network...

Affecto & Spatialworld

Affecto Estonia worked with Spatialworld to use FME for validating and integrating geodetic survey...

Consortech

Consortech needed to migrate client data from various systems into the AutoCAD Map 3D template they...

Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council, Data Automation

Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council was facing reduced funding and staffing while seeing...

London Fire Brigade & 1Spatial

London Fire Brigade (LFB) needed to optimize travel times to provide efficient routing for their...

Sacramento Area Sewer District (SASD) & CAD Masters

Sacramento Area Sewer District (SASD) needed to continuously synchronize data between multiple...

The Danish Geodata Agency - Labelling Maps

Geodatastyrelsen, The Danish Geodata Agency, needed to create cartographic labels for their...

Sterling Geo - Map Portal

Sterling Power Utilities needed a map portal for their wooden power pole inspection project....

WhiteStar Corporation

WhiteStar Corporation uses FME Server to supply key geographic data layers to the energy industry...

Global Information Systems - Merging CAD and GIS

Global Information Systems used FME to design a system that creates purpose-built alignment sheets...

INSER

INSER uses FME Cloud to provide its clients with common geodata transformation and quality...

CAE - Clipping Road Networks

CAE used FME to generate global lightmap overlays for realistic night scene simulation for civil...

The Danish Geodata Agency - Atom Feed

Geodatastyrelsen, The Danish Geodata Agency, uses FME to make use of an atom feed for notifying...

Cunning Running Software

Cunning Running Software uses FME in their situational awareness solution for law enforcement...

SWECO

SWECO found an innovative and unusual FME-based solution to their invoicing challenge. SWECO’s...

virtualcitySYSTEMS

virtualcitySYSTEMS uses FME in urban information modeling to perform complex data transformation...

WSP

WSP views FME as “THE” problem solving tool. They are using it to address a wide range of...

Metria

Metria needed to create automated quality control services, enabling clients to gain the full value...

Condesys Consulting

FME customer since 1997, Condesys Consulting recently solved sequence analysis challenges for...

Ponderosa Telephone

Ponderosa uses FME to perform GIS queries and automate data conversion of their telecom...

Sharper Shape

Sharper Shape uses FME to help its power distribution clients achieve their goals. They...

Auckland Council

Auckland Council needed to measure the vacant, redevelopment, and infill development capacity...

RIEGL Laser Measurement Systems

RIEGL uses FME to process LiDAR data to leverage the depth of knowledge made available by the...

Arup, Australia

In preparation for the Sydney Light Rail System expansion, a team of 8 engineers at Arup were...

Ordnance Survey

Ordnance Survey uses FME to implement a wide range of spatial data products. The product...

San Jose Water Company

San Jose Water Company needed to create a low-cost solution to mimic the enterprise GIS they had...

Bureau of Land Management National Operations Center (NOC)

The Bureau of Land Management National Operations Center (NOC) needed to exercise quality control...

Silkeborg Municipality, Denmark

Silkeborg Municipality, Denmark has applied FME in many areas over the last 7 years, from automated...

Sterling Geo - Flood Detection

Sterling Geo has combined the strengths of FME Desktop and ERDAS Imagine into powerful image...

Natural Resources Canada (NRCan)

Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) has used FME software since 1998. Initially, it was used as a...

The Community Mapping Network

The Community Mapping Network needed to create a 1:50,000 watershed atlas for the Yukon in order to...

exactEarth

exactEarth wanted to leverage the marine vessel automatic identification system (AIS) to create a...

California CAD Solutions

With more people abandoning land lines for cell phones, municipalities are faced with a difficult...

Spatial DNA

Spatial DNA helped client NAV CANADA implement FME for managing aeronautical data. Using FME...

1Spatial & Ordnance Survey

1Spatial recently optimized their client Ordnance Survey’s database checkout procedure. Using...

Alpine Shire Council

The GIS group at Alpine Shire Council wanted to improve accuracy of bushfire risk assessments for...

Louisville Gas & Electric

Louisville Gas & Electric needed to integrate pipeline design data from multiple CAD...

Stronger Christchurch Infrastructure Rebuild Team (SCIRT)

After earthquakes demolished 70% of the downtown buildings in Christchurch, New Zealand, SCIRT -...

The Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE)

The Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) was tasked with mapping Brazil at a...

HOK

HOK was faced with the complex task to build a virtual representation of a real world 130 square...

Korem

Korem’s telecommunications client needed to provide an easy way for their internal data users to...

Stadtwerke Münster

Stadtwerke Münster’s goal was to be the first public transit agency on Google Transit in...

Arup, Singapore

The GIS team at Arup uses FME in nearly every project they work on. From data translation and...

City of Surrey

The city of Surrey provides 400 datasets for the public to download, empowering citizens, helping...

Grand Lyon, France

Grand Lyon, France, uses FME to make their city’s data available to the public, empowering a...

Forsmark Power Group

Forsmark and Sweco used FME to integrate nuclear power plant data into a single database. The...

Helsingin Energia & Spatialworld

Helsingin Energia uses FME to automate the integration, analysis, and delivery of energy...

Devon Energy, Oklahoma City

Devon Energy uses FME to centralize spatial system stores and display SCADA (supervisory control...

Talisman Energy

FME restored work-life balance for administrators by automating incremental data updates and...

Global Information Systems - Data Validation

Global Information Systems drastically reduced time required to perform quality control before data...

University of Massachusetts Amherst

UMass Amherst has improved facilities and campus planning efforts using FME to create a...

Stadt Augsburg

Stadt Augsburg needed to provide timely access to city model data for their entire organization....

University of Washington

The University of Washington needed to implement an automated process for accurately updating...

CN Rail

CN’s GIS group required extraction of precise track centrelines from LiDAR datasets to help...

Grafton Technologies

FME Cloud enables GraftonTech to create data transformation workflows that address their aviation...

State of Indiana

The State of Indiana used FME to streamline the integration of GIS data from 92 counties into a...

Athens-Clarke County Police Department

The Athens-Clarke County Police Department reduced critical 9-1-1 map production time from two...

RCMP in B.C.

The RCMP in B.C.’s geomatics team is saving time and improving accuracy by using FME to create...

Iowa Department of Transportation

The Iowa DOT (IADOT) needed to automate the integration of business and road related data from...

BC Transit

BC Transit uses FME to integrate disparate databases into one, interconnected system that powers...

Williamson County

Williamson County used FME to quickly prepare their GIS data for contribution to Esri's Community...

Shell Canada

Shell Canada used FME to make important 3D spatial data available to non-technical stakeholders who...

Pelmorex Corp

Pelmorex Corp. used FME to create the Pelmorex Lightning Detection Network (PLDN). With FME...

San Antonio Water System

The San Antonio Water System (SAWS) created a web-enabled GIS to provide a seamless view of its...

Hampton Roads Sanitation District

HRSD uses FME to provide web-based data validation and loading services which facilitate the...

swisstopo

Swisstopo has implemented FME to streamline map production and data management processes....

GeoGR Inc.

GeoGR Inc. uses FME to provide online, self-serve access to spatial data that is delivered to the...

Enstar Natural Gas Company & Alaska Map Science

Enstar Natural Gas Company & Alaska Map Science used FME to perform the rapid migration of a...

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