As presented by Saverio Avella, Technical Support Manager, Digital Production Squadron, Mapping and Charting Establishment (MCE) Abstract: FME has rapidly become a very useful and productive tool for Mapping and Charting Establishment. In the map production environment, FME is being used in a revision workflow. Template workbenches have been developed to update existing cartographic data stored in ESRI geodatabases directly from centreline Oracle Spatial data that is collected using Intergraph tools. In the R&D environment, MCE Engineering section has developed a number of workbenches to automate the manipulation and extraction of various raster & vector formats for an area of interest to a format that can be used for the DND Maritime Helicopter Project (MHP). This presentation will review some of the more pertinent workflows and FME workbenches that are being used in both environments.

1. FME's Role in a Map Revision
Production Workflow and R&D
Environment
Saverio (Sam) Avella
Technical Support Manager
Digital Production Squadron
Mapping and Charting Establishment (MCE)
20 April 2012

2. Aim of the Presentation
 Illustrate two “real” world example on how FME is
being used at MCE:
 Map Production Environment
 Map Revision Cycle
 A R&D Environment
 Develop an automated means of manipulating and
extracting large raster & vector datasets based on an
area of interest to formats that can be used for the
DND Maritime Helicopter Project (MHP).

3. Map Production Revision Cycle
 Current Revision Cycle Workflow
 Aim is to update the Cartographic Databases with
Feature
Extraction only the features that have been revised in the
(GEOMEDIA) Feature Extraction Database
Replica Databases
SYNC
CHANGES
Oracle Tables ArcMap
(DB Update) PLTS
SYNC
CHANGES
SYNC
CHANGES

4. Map Production Revision Cycle (Cont.)
 Modified Revision Cycle Workflow
Feature
Extraction
(GEOMEDIA)
SYNC
CHANGES
Oracle Tables ArcMap
(DB Update) PLTS
SYNC
CHANGES

5. Map Production Revision Cycle (Cont.)
Revision Workbench

6. Map Production Revision Cycle (Cont.)
Geometry Changes
Revision Workbench
Attribute
Creator …
Insert Operator
D- Deletes
I - Inserts Attribute
Creator …
Delete Operator
U- Updates Separate the U Based
I,U,D on Geom Changes
Reader … Tester … Tester … Attribute Changes
Attribute
D I &U Creator … Update Operator
Attribute
Creator … Insert Operator
Reader … Reader …
U Delete Operator
Attribute
…
Filter
I
Names of Features
in the DB Schema
Oracle Table Tester …
(DB Update) Attribute
Separate the I&U Creator …
Oracle
SDO Writer …

7. in a R&D Environment
 Aim:
To develope an automated means of manipulating and extracting
large raster & vector datasets based on an area of interest and
export the data to formats that can be used for the DND
Maritime Helicopter Project (MHP).

8. in a R&D Environment (Cont.)
 Conceptual Overview of Workflow
Creating mosaic of
the results and exporting
to GeoTiffs, DEM, Shapes
Clip the different types of
data based on the AOIs.
Create and index file
of where the data is located.
Folders containing both
the AOIs and data to be
extracted.

9. in a R&D Environment (Cont.)
 Workbench Used to Create Index Shape Files
The resulting index
contains the X and Y
coordinates of
each TPC charts, the
location of the source
folder („Path‟) and the
name assigned to each
individual chart. The
indexes are used to
automated the selection of
all TPCs intersecting
an AOI (red box in previous
slice) (TPC-Tactical Pilot Charts)

10. in a R&D Environment (Cont.)
 QC of Elevation Data:
A Workbench was
used to extract
Elevation data from
DVOF and compare it
with DTED.
In some cases, found
errors in the DVOF.

11. Conclusion
 FME is a very versatile and powerful tool.
 From the two sample workflows, it is obvious that
it‟s not only for data conversion.
 If your current tool cannot do the job, look to
FME for a solution…

12. Thank You!
 Questions?
 For more information:
 Saverio (Sam) Avella (saverio.avella@forces.gc.ca)
 Mapping and Charting Establishment (MCE)