As Amazon Web Services offers better price-performance with new ec2 instance types, we continue to upgrade the instance types available in FME Cloud, the hosted version of FME Server. At the end of 2017, Amazon Web Services released the next Generation of General-Purpose EC2 Instances. This spring, we upgraded all FME Cloud instance types except […]
Over the years, Safe Software has established strong relationships with higher education institutions like the British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT). Today, instructors in higher education institutions around the world teach FME. However, instructors often have to develop their own FME educational content. To address this challenge, we are now developing training content specifically for higher […]
If you haven’t noticed by now, two of my big passions are spatial data wrangling and football (soccer). I’m quite surprised that it’s been three years since I delved into this subject, so here’s an update for 2018. The football thing is fun, and I do hope some non-FME’ers find their way here for that alone. But the real point is how well FME does at data integration, data transformation, automation, web services, and much more. It’s so efficient in fact that I spent longer writing this post than using FME!
FME 2018.1 introduces the ability to carry out convolution. Convolution is a mathematical operation carried out on raster features using what are known as filters. FME makes the process easy with predefined filters built into the new RasterConvolver transformer, but also lets you experiment with custom filters. So read on to find out how…
3 Months, 77 events, and 4,000 attendees later, we have completed all of the FME World Tour 2018 stops. It has been a rewarding and inspiring journey hearing about the projects our users have been working on and seeing the FME community come together. We enjoyed seeing many new faces this year and of course, were […]
Let’s talk about jam for a minute. In 2000, a pair of psychologists conducted a study where they arranged a display table of 24 kinds of jam, and the next day a similar set-up with only six varieties of jam. While the large display attracted more attention, the small display produced more purchases. This led […]
FME 2018.1 is now available! Here’s a quick look at what’s new in FME Desktop and FME Server. Download FME 2018.1 New Formats Apache Hive Reader – We’ve been working on supporting Hadoop, and now you can read data on HDFS via Hive (requires the Hive JDBC driver from Hortonworks). You’ll also see Hive support […]
Each year, Safe Software offers practicum positions to BCIT students in the GIS program. I was lucky to be chosen for a position on the FME Server Experts Team. My goal was to create a new training course for the FME Server REST API. See also: 10 things you (probably) didn’t know the FME Server […]
The FME Server Experts Team is pleased to announce a new training course! Here’s your chance to create a custom web application powered by FME. This course is meant for people with little programming experience but who have a love of FME and a desire to learn more. Register for FME Server REST API Training […]
Twice a year, a group of Safe Software employees participates in the Bike to Work Week (BTWW) organized by HUB Cycling, a charitable non-profit organization established to improve cycling conditions in Metro Vancouver. BTWW is an initiative to motivate people to use bikes for their daily commutes to work, a whole week long. It’s always […]