Converting data between different formats and applications often involves much more than a format-to-format conversion. You may need to sort them, group them, change their shape, compare them to a database, re-project the coordinate system, etc. This is data transformation and this is one of the main features of FME.
The design of a processing is done in a completely graphic way with FME Workbench thanks to objects called Transformers that allow to change the characteristics (geometric or not) of the data without having to write a single line of code. FME contains nearly 500 Transformers that perform different types of data operations.
- Translation
- Sorting and filtering
- Loading to a database
- Extraction from a database
- Quality control
- Space analysis
- Image processing
- Creating 3D data
- Operating or producing web services
- Reporting
- Geocoding
- Concatenation
- Attribute management
- Reprojection
- Restructuring
- Geometric restructuring
- …
Safe Software publishes the Transformers Reference Guide, a free and indispensable medium that brings together and defines the hundreds of Transformers available in FME. This Illustrated Guide is accompanied by an introduction to FME Workbench as well as a list of the main keyboard shortcuts of FME.
