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FME UC 2017: Wednesday Recap
We’re thrilled to welcome hundreds of FMEers from around the world to Vancouver for the next three days. And what a perfect week it is to be here. After a long and snowy winter, we’re graced with this...
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FME UC 2017: Thursday Recap
Okay. That evening social though. If you need one reason to come to the next FME UC, let that be it. This is not the DDR you're looking for pic.twitter.com/KDDwzfJxSY — FME UC 2017 (@fmeuc) May 25,...
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FME UC 2017: Friday Recap
Turns out you guys can do a lot with FME in 3 hours — especially when fuelled by pizza and beer. My partner in crime @mapgirll tweeted all the Hackathon projects earlier and will post a recap here on...
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Best Practice Analysis and Using FME to Organize FME
Hi FME’ers, Late in 2016 I posted to the KnowledgeCentre the idea of a Best Practice analysis tool. The idea was to create a tool that could review a workspace and validate it in terms of the...
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FME Hackathon Recap – Pizza, S’mores, Beer… and Awesome FME Projects
The Sweco team, sponsors of the FME UC 2017 Hackathon It’s hard to believe that the FME User Conference was only just over a month ago! As part of the evening fun we held our first FME Hackathon with...
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Safe Software Stands Up For Youth Mental Health
On Sunday, Team Safe took to waters at Blackie Spit in support of the Surrey Memorial Hospital Foundation’s Champion of the Crescent Corporate Relay Challenge. This event, now in its second year,...
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FME 2017.1 – Worth the Wait
Okay. I know we’ve pushed the release date back a couple of times, (or more), but I think you’ll agree that the extra effort into the details made FME 2017.1 worth the wait. This release brings you...
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FME 2017.1: Yet Another Awesome Datetime Update
This post concerns FME 2017.1 and is a follow up to my previous article on dates and datetimes in FME 2017.0 FME 2017: Dates, DateTimes, and their use in Temporal Calculations If you haven’t read that...
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FME Adjacent Feature Attributes: An Example of Reading Structured Text Files
Hi FME’ers, I’m thinking I might not have really given much love to the Adjacent Feature Attributes functionality in FME, which is a pity since it’s a great tool for data processing. And a question in...
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ebook: Creating Web Connections
In the era of digital transformation, new web applications and services are being introduced at many organizations. You can use FME to connect to these web services and integrate their data and...
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My First Software Dev Position – What It’s Like To Be A Co-Op At Safe
Blog by Adam Bignell, Safe Software co-op Co-op students have been an integral part of Safe Software for over 20 years, contributing to core FME technology and often returning as full-time software...
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Driving Change: Safe Software Sponsors Driving WinTech Community Conversation
This fall, Women in Tech World is setting off on a community-based research tour across Canada. As a non-profit initiative committed to elevating women in the technology industry, Driving WinTech will...
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Announcing Your New FME Community Champions
In 2015, we upgraded the FME user community and built the FME Knowledge Center. It’s grown into a buzzing network where FMEers around the world can exchange knowledge and develop their expertise. By...
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FME Behind the Scenes: L10n and Learning Curves
Markus Bellinghoff has been a geoinformatics expert at con terra since 1997 and began creating the first German version of FME in 2004. When designing and developing technical software, it’s vital to...
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FME and the Minimum Spanning Tree (a folk-tale with a happy ending)
It started with a tweet… @FMEEvangelist @SafeSoftware is there a transformer we can use for finding MinimumSpanningTree within Clusters?Any help would be appreciated — ipkw (@ipkw) September 8, 2017...
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Picking NFL Winners: Automatically Scraping, Prepping and Merging Data from...
Like many people in North America I am a huge NFL fan. You get the idea. Those from anywhere else in the world might be getting ready to hit the back button right about now. But I ask you to bear with...
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Safe’s Jay Walkers Light Up the Night
On Saturday, October 14th, Safe’s Jay Walkers showed their support for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society’s “Light The Night” event. This year’s charity walk attracted more than 1,200 people (and too...
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The Case of the Tweeting Siren: an FME-Powered Thriller
The summer of 2017 has been an interesting time. For one thing, I got into reading old Erle Stanley Gardner novels, particularly the Perry Mason detective stories. They’re pretty good books – although...
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Safe Software Wins 2017 Corporate Social Responsibility Award
Safe Software was honoured to receive the Corporate Social Responsibility Recognition Award yesterday at the 2017 Surrey Business Excellence Awards gala. Presented by the Surrey Board of Trade and...
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Spatially Enabled Video Editing with FME
FME for video processing—is it even possible? By integrating a few tools, I was able to use FME to make videos and display them in a web browser. This project started as a timelapse video of the new...
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