FDO News

Autodesk recently announced two new FDO providers at the FOSS4G conference – and this Cadalyst article quoted Safe’s user wiki, fmepedia, to help define what an FDO provider is.

What the article doesn’t mention is that FME Desktop ships with an uber FDO-provider that can read all the formats that FME supports, including rasters. You can also apply our schema transformation technology through the FDO interface via the Custom Formats feature which allows live-on-the-fly data restructuring as the data is read. This means that without ever doing a translation, the user can see exactly what they need to, even when they want a different view than the originating schema of the source file.

We’ve got a demo on the FME FDO Provider for AutoCAD users which shows how all this works. Anyway, it was great to see fmepedia contributing to the greater body of knowledge of the Geospatial World…