How to Automatically Create Beautiful Cartographic Labels Using FME's New MapTextLabeller March 06, 2013
How to Automatically Create Beautiful Cartographic Labels Using FME’s New MapTextLabeller
Nov 14, 2014
Learn about the MapTextLabeller, an exciting new extra-cost FME plugin from MapText which lets you automate the creation of high quality labels - and through its integration with FME - concurrently transform your data and output to formats like AutoCAD DWG, Microstation DGN, Esri Geodatabase, MapInfo, and others. Join us to discover how you can take advantage of its rules-based label placement and styling capabilities to save time and create amazing labels in your preferred application.
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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
[email protected] Support
[email protected] (604)501-9985 ext. 278
Dmitri [email protected]
Dale [email protected]
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