FME Flow on Windows
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Powerful geographic data manipulation, conversion and visualization tool
What do you like best about the product?
The FME platform has many built-in transformations from one format to another. Also, FME has split out common functions in to standalone tools.
What do you dislike about the product?
As with any software meant to munge data, FME Desktop will seem confusing and even opaque to the new user. For example, it is not immediately obvious how to access custom data in an imported data structure.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Using FME Platform I am able to quickly and easily convert and simplify government boundary datasets into a format suitable for my own applications.
FME - Swiss knife for the spatial data transformation
What do you like best about the product?
FME is an easy to use tool to create ETL(extract-transform-load) workflows for spatial and non-spatial data. It handles enormous number of spatial and non-spatial data formats, so you could transform almost anything-to-anything. Most common formats including shapefiles, ESRI file geodatabases, spatial data in various relational databases. You even can automatically post tweets based on your data. Besides the format conversion, other important feature is data transformation capabilities, so you can perform complex spatial transformations, like buffering, subsetting, spatial queries, joins, attribute calculations - almost anything that you can do using the conventional GIS, like ArcGIS or QGIS but in an automated way.
What do you dislike about the product?
Product is expensive, no way to run the FME workflows for free.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Various ETL projects, such as tiling scanned raster maps, and converting the data between various formats.
GIS techician
What do you like best about the product?
The way we can set up our requirements and mass update or check attributes associated with the features is in a jiffy. It’s compatibility
What do you dislike about the product?
It skips some feature attributes. So you need to manually add them
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
QC gets done very fast using FME vs manually users QCing when time is crunch.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Highly advisable for QC
FME
What do you like best about the product?
being able to manipulate data into the exact for I need
What do you dislike about the product?
sometimes the tools are very complicated and the help is only minimally helpful
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
combining multiple datasets into one and changing to the proper formats
Recommendations to others considering the product:
great product that really helps improve the day to day data management
FME
What do you like best about the product?
I love being able to manipulate all different types of data exactly as I need to
What do you dislike about the product?
The tools can be complicated and the help is not always the clearest on how to fill in the required elements
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
data manipulation
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you do a lot of data manipulation or have data coming in in different data types but ultimately need them into one data type, FME is great and easy to utilize and will save you time and work hours
FME for Marine
What do you like best about the product?
FME has an amazing amout of reader and writer module that allow to convert many GIS format in whatever you need.
What do you dislike about the product?
The graphic interface something limit a little bit the amount of data you could do, if the flow is really complex a scripting interface should be more useful.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Convert S57 Marine database into a Postgis DB and maintain it updated following Hydrographic Office Update.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you need to convert your data from one GIS format to another and perform GIS analysis this is your tool
FME Review
What do you like best about the product?
I like that you can connect and transform your data. You can also connect your platforms using any format. I also like that there is no coding.
What do you dislike about the product?
Currently there is nothing that I disliked
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I am able to convert my data without the use of coding. The benefits are that there is no coding and I can convert my data into whatever platform I choose.
Works as expected
What do you like best about the product?
Put in one file type and another one (desired) will come out on the other end. It does exactly what you can expect it to do.
What do you dislike about the product?
The interface and whole ux could use a bit of a revamp into 2018
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Able to now perform complex automated analysis in the form of FME workbenches.
Fme server
What do you like best about the product?
Very powerful, integrates with a huge range of systems and file syrictures/types/databases
What do you dislike about the product?
Some of the transformer names are a bit funny, but you learn them
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Systems intergrarion, streamlining and automating processes. Developing new systems
Best Data Translator Available
What do you like best about the product?
Sets the standard for geospatial and non-geospatial data translations. The software allows you to do simple point-and-click data translations, graphical user interface (GUI) translations and code-based script translations.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing to dislike about the software, it is the best data translator available.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Typical applications are to translate CAD drawings to GIS data formats and vice versa, also we do customized script translations for format CAD drawings to meet our organization's needs. The software allows us to streamline operations when we receive data (GIS and CAD) from external sources as we can quickly convert to match our base information (formats and projections).
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I wouldn't waste a bunch of time considering other GIS/CAD data translation tools, the FME suite of products provides virtually every type of translation you could ever need. Just like any new software, there will be a leading curve, but the tech support and training options are solid. They are fairly active in going out and doing seminars around the world.
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