1. Using Workbench & FME
Server to Validate Storm
Water Network Collection
Bryan Bingham
Asset Data Coordinator – Transportation & Community Planning
The Regional Municipality of York
April 10, 2013

2. Agenda
 Background
 Project
 Look and feel of information
 QA/QC using FME Server
 Attribution using Workbench
 Moving forward
 Workspaces
 Questions

3. Background - York Region
 Serving 1.1 million residents
across 13 core businesses
 9 Local area municipalities
 Operate & maintain approx.
1,100 km of roadway
(>3,600 lane km)

4. Background
 Bryan Bingham – GMT, GIS A.S.
 Educational background: 3 year GIS program at
Fleming College
 5 Years GIS consulting experience
 NO PREVIOUS FME EXPERIENCE
 Responsibilities at York Region
 Tasked with managing storm water asset data
collection project
 Ensure that asset registry is up to date for
consumption by Cityworks

5. Project
 Transportation & Community Planning (TCP) is
responsible for storm water assets in the Regional
Road Right of Way (ROW)
 Storm water assets currently stored in scanned
design drawings
 Video logging project created asset point
locations
 Training and managing experienced surveyors to
use GIS and FME Server
 Ontario One Call for asset locates (End of 2013)

6. Look and Feel – Connect the Dots!

7. QA/QC Using FME Server
 Uses series of Test Filter and Attribute Creator
transformers
 Each domain in the feature class is tested for
adherence to the domain values
 Non matching or null values are flagged and
output to a CSV error log
 CSV error logs are created for each user and lists
errors by asset type
 SELF SERVICE - Takes ~2-3 minutes to run

8. Attribution Using FME Workbench
 Series of workbench documents
 General attribution
 Road ID
 Conservation Area and Watershed
 Maintenance District
 Elevation (From DEM for points only)
 X & Y Location
 Asset ID assignment
 Assigning upstream and downstream nodes
 Calculates upstream and downstream obverts
 Move data from development to production

9. Moving Forward – Next Steps
 Adding the remainder of asset types (roads,
medians, pavement markings, etc.)
 Continuing to evaluate and develop workbench
models
 Dynamically read and compare domains without
having to enter values into transformers
 Looking for opportunities where FME can assist
with data management and transformations.

10. Workspaces
 FME Server QA/QC
 FME Workbench Attribution
 FME Workbench ID Assignment
 FME Workbench Node Calculation

11. Thank You!
 Questions?
 For more information:
 Bryan Bingham – bryan.bingham@york.ca
 The Regional Municipality of York
 FMEpedia - http://fmepedia.safe.com/
 Google – http://google.ca