Technology for Data Exchange Demonstration

A challenge that often hinders the development of efficient hybrid systems is a lack of interoperability between the various proprietary and open source system components. Interoperability issues arise from the fact that almost every spatial data application employs a unique model for storing spatial data. With FME, users have access to a single tool that allows them to architect virtually any required data model transformation. The transformation can be designed ahead of time via an easy-to-use graphical interface and then applied automatically whenever data is exchanged.

Safe Software will host a hands-on lab session at FOSS4G that will employ six different scenarios to showcase the diversity of components from the open source stack that can be accessed using FME - components such as such as PostGIS, PostgreSQL, MySQL®, SQLite, GDAL, OGR, FDO and GEOS.

In addition to Thursday's lab session, Safe will offer 10-minute demonstrations in the Sydney Room on 26th September at 12:00 pm and 12:20 pm. Safe will also be exhibiting throughout the conference at booth # 23. Conference attendees are invited to stop by the booth for a demonstration of FME's format translation and data model transformation capability, or for a preview of the company's upcoming FME Server solution - a scalable, enterprise-ready spatial ETL processing environment.