Tips for Manipulating Data in Esri Geodatabase using FME

Tips for Manipulating Data in Esri Geodatabase using FME

Mita HajirakarFME Desktop Support Manager

Mark StoakesManager, Professional Services

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Agenda

Demos Manipulating annotation properties Writing to domains and subtypes Loading geodatabase attachments Updating metadata Mosaicking and loading rasters

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Many Geodatabase Formats

Esri Geodatabase (File Geodatabase ArcObjects)

Esri Geodatabase (File Geodatabase API)

Esri Geodatabase (File Geodatabase Raster Dataset)

Esri Geodatabase (Personal Geodatabase)

Esri Geodatabase (XML Workspace Document)

Esri Geodatabase (ArcSDE Geodatabase)

Esri Geodatabase (ArcSDE Geodatabase Raster Dataset)

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Versions & Editions

FME Esri Edition License

FME 2012 SP3 ArcGIS 10.1 ArcSDE 10.1

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ArcGIS use

Annotation Demo

Create sounding annotation features and load to SoundingFeatureAnno

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Annotation Review

Never write directly to annotation fields Use geodb_ format attributes Reference geodb_anno_class_id using subtype

code or code from symbol collection Reference geodb_symbol_id using symbol id

found in symbol collection

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Domain & Subtype Demos

Read from multiple buoy layers in ENC and write to BuoyFeature, populating BUOY_TYPE

4 = BOYLAT 5 = BOYSAW 6 = BOYSPP

Create new feature class with new domain

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Domain & Subtype Review

Can write to subtype/domain code or description AttributeValueMapper is a key transformer Subtypes are validated by default; domains are

validated if “validate features to write” is “yes” Can create subtype or domains and write to

existing ones Cannot modify existing subtypes or domains

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Attachments Demo

Load photographs (i.e. JPEG images) into an attachment table and setup the relationship class entries with the associated lake features

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Attachments Review

Must be built with ArcGIS tools (cannot create them with FME), or with an XML geodatabase template file

Set up the following format attributes: geodb_feature_has_relationships geodb_oid geodb_rel_origin_oid geodb_rel_destination_oid geodb_type

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Metadata Demo

Updating existing metadata

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Metadata Review

When reading metadata switch “Feature Read Mode” to “metadata”

geodb_metadata_string holds xml metadata FME has many XML transformers Lots of XML/metadata recorded webinars

http://www.safe.com/learning/webinars/

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Raster Demo

Take a set of tiled raster files, mosaic them, and write them to ArcSDE Geodatabase Raster Dataset

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Raster Review

Many raster transformers in FME Check out FMEPedia raster landing page

http://fmepedia.safe.com/topic/raster

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