1. Sep. 21, 2006 v FME Worldwide User Conference - Vancouver Geomatics and FME from a Corporate Perspective Nadia Shahriari Namini – City of Calgary, Alberta

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3. Geomatics and FME 3 City of Calgary  Population ~ 1,000,000  22,583 growth last year  Area - 286 square miles and growing  Hosted 1988 Winter Olympics  Home of the Calgary Stampede  Alberta’s main industries are oil, gas and cattle

4. Geomatics and FME 4 The City of Calgary Municipal Government  City Council  Mayor and 14 Aldermen  Municipal Administration  City Manager, 6 Major Departments, 27 Business Units  11,733 Employees

5. Geomatics and FME 5 How Does Geomatics Fit In?

6. Geomatics and FME 6 Geomatics Cadastral Mapping Base Mapping Management Tri-Services Dispatch Mapping Rural Roadnet Field Services GIS Mapping Photogrammetric Services Custom Mapping GIS Analysis Geomatics Division

7. Geomatics and FME 7  Provides data conversion/GIS analysis services to numerous IT projects and Business Unit clients  Responsible for loading and QA of numerous datasets to Corporate SDE (~350 SDE layers) GIS Analysis

8. Geomatics and FME 8  Numerous technologies: FME, ArcGIS, ArcSDE, AML, Pro-C, PL/SQL, …  Batch jobs: nightly, weekly, monthly,…  Ad-hoc processes GIS Analysis (Cont.)

9. Geomatics and FME 9 CLIENTS Water Services Water Resources Roads Parks Fire Police LIM-CDAM LIM- Infrastructure Information Assessment Trans. Planning Calgary Transit Information Technology Urban Development Development & Building Approvals

10. Geomatics and FME 10 SERVICES Spatial/Non-Spatial Data Integration/Conversion Maintenance of more than 350 Corporate SDE layers Data Translations / Transformations Data Schema Change Spatial/Non-Spatial GIS Analysis Quality Assurance GIS Analysis Consultation Data Conversion Consultation

11. Geomatics and FME 11 SDE Layers  56 Legal Survey Fabric (LSF) Layers  10 Ownership Parcel Fabric (OPF) Layers  2 Address POSSE Layers  44 Digital Aerial Survey (DAS) Layers  6 Road Network (RoadNet) Layers  42 Waterworks Layers  16 Sanitary Layers  26 Storm Layers  15 Layers for Transit/Transportation  14 Layers for Calgary Parks  5 Layers for Calgary Fire  7 Layers for Calgary Police  31 Layers for Calgary Census  8 Layers for Calgary Schools  …..

12. Geomatics and FME 12 Example Projects  Trip Planning Application  Street Lighting Enterprise Geodatabase  Permitted Use Building Envelope Analysis  Open Space GIS Analysis  Parks Asset Management  Waterworks and Wastewater Asset Management  …..

13. Geomatics and FME 13  Waterworks : a multi-million dollar public utility that manages all aspects of the water treatment and delivery process for The City of Calgary.  Wastewater : responsible for the design, construction, and maintenance of two separate collection systems:  Storm drainage system: helps prevent flooding by diverting rain and snow melt.  Sanitary system: protects public health and the environment by collecting and treating wastewater from residences, schools, hospitals, businesses, and industries. Waterworks and Wastewater Asset Management

14. Geomatics and FME 14  Source data sets:  MicroStation Design files (387 sections)  Oracle database (about 100 tables)  Destination data sets:  39 Water Works SDE layers  14 Sanitary SDE layers  24 Storm SDE layers Waterworks and Wastewater Asset Management

15. Geomatics and FME 15 Sample Source DGN Files

16. Geomatics and FME 16 Database Schemas Sanitary Storm Waterworks

17. Geomatics and FME 17 DGN files Oracle DB AML Scripts CoveragesSDE layers ARCSDE commands Old process: New process: DGN files Oracle DB FME SDE layers Waterworks and Wastewater Asset Management

18. Geomatics and FME 18 -Data filtering -Data Integration -DB tables Join -DB to DGN Join -Geometric Operations -Linear Referencing -Data Manipulation -Overlay Analysis -… FME Processes Destination Data Sets Source Data Sets Waterworks and Wastewater Asset Management

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20. Geomatics and FME 20  4 Filtering Transformers: Perform tests on feature geometry/attribute and route the features to different ports.  9 Geometric Transformers: Operate on the geometry of individual features /groups of features.  9 String Transformers: Operate on character strings.  1 Linear Referencing Transformers: Create and apply measure related information onto the geometry.  3 Collector Transformers: Operate on collections of features at a time. Utilized FME Tools

21. Geomatics and FME 21  8 Manipulator Transformers: Modify the geometry/attribute of individual features.  2 Database Transformers: Allow interactions with external databases.  6 Infrastructure Transformers: Interaction with the underlying FME engine facilities.  6 Calculator Transformers: Calculate a value and supply it to a new attribute.  8 List Transformers: Operate on FME attribute lists. Utilized FME Tools (Cont.)

22. Geomatics and FME 22 Quality Assurance/ Quality Control

23. Geomatics and FME 23  FME Workspaces:  20 for Water Works  16 for Sanitary  20 for Storm  Batch files: 3 batch files  Running time: ~10 hrs.  Intel Pentium 4 CPU 2.80 GHz 2.00 GB of RAM  Output Data sets: 77 SDE layers Summary

24. Geomatics and FME 24 Challenges  Backward Compatibility (with older versions)  Line-linked vs. Point-linked Annotation  StringReplacer and StringPairReplacer  Help Document  Data cleaning (MRFCleaner transformer)

25. Geomatics and FME 25 What Do We Like about FME?  Easy to maintain  Easy to document  Data Integration from Multiple sources  Multiple Destination datasets  No intermediate data sets required  Complex spatial and non-spatial analysis all in a single FME workspace  QA/QC processes  Batch mode  Safe Software Support  FUN …

26. Geomatics and FME 26 Thank You.