How to Automatically Create Beautiful Cartographic Labels Using FME’s New MapTextLabeller

How to Automatically Create Beautiful Cartographic Labels Using FME's New MapTextLabeller

March 06, 2013

Who Are We?

Dale LutzCo-Founder andVice President of DevelopmentSafe Software

Dmitri BaghScenario Creation andTesting AnalystSafe Software

Questions are Encouraged!

This morning’s Q&A Support:

Mark StoakesManager Professional Services Safe Software

Powering The Flow of Spatial Data

FME – Feature Manipulation Engine

FME Capabilities

Transform Data to Use and Share

Convert spatial data between hundreds of formats

Transform spatial data into the

precise data model you need

Integrate multiple different data types into a single data model

Share spatial data with people where, when and how they need it

Workbench: Graphical Data Flow Authoring

Getting started page:

http://fme.ly/GetStarted

Attend a weekly FME Desktop overview webinar:

http://fme.ly/WeeklyIntro

New to FME?

Poll: Do you currently label maps on a regular basis?

Introducing the MapTextLabellerfor FME Developed by MapText, Inc.

Extra-cost plugin resold by Safe and our partners

Demo 1Vancouver Neighborhoods

Simple polygon labelling Placement Rules

Poll: What type(s) of maps do you need to label?

MapTextLabeller GUITransformer Parameters

MapTextLabeller GUILabel Manager

MapTextLabeller GUI Style Properties

MapTextLabeller GUI Rule Properties

MapTextLabeller GUIMapTextStyler

Demo 2. Rapid Transit

Poll: To which formats will you send your labels?

Target Systems

G6 (Group of Six)

Demo 3. Target Systems

Target Systems

Rasters (Stroke, Style, Sort, Rasterize)

Target Systems

PDF (using ArcGIS as target) And even more!

How FME can helpData enrichment Measurements (area, length, extents, azimuth) Shape estimation (circularity, angularity,

rectangularity)

How FME can helpAttribute manipulations Clean input attributes Concatenate attributes/constants/expressions Add spaces or new lines

How FME can helpGeometry manipulations Clean geometries (snap, intersect, make

polygons) Modify geometries (clip, buffer, amalgamate)

Amalgamation

Demo 4. Amalgamation

How FME can helpAnalysis and second Labelling

World Labelling

Demo 5. World Labelling

How FME can helpParallel Processing Split the input into independent chunks Label concurrently:

Single process runsout of memory on32-bit OS / 1 hour on 64-bit OS

24 processes finishin 20 minutes

http://fme.ly/parallel

MapTextLabeller is a powerful plugin that can help you quicklyand beautifully label your maps

Summary

Poll: Would you be interested in evaluating MapTextLabeller?

More about MapTextLabeller

At Safe.com:http://safe.com/maptext

On FMEpedia:http://fmepedia.safe.com/

Upcoming webinars

How to Efficiently Transform Non-Spatial Data using FME – March 13

PostGIS 2.0 – How to Improve Interoperability using FME – April 24

Recorded Webinars: http://fme.ly/webinars

We’ll Be Following Up

Thank You!

For more information, contact: Sales

info@safe.com Support

support@safe.com (604)501-9985 ext. 278

Dmitri dmitri.bagh@safe.com

Dale dal@safe.com