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10 Basic Geospatial Acronyms You Need to Know

Mark Ireland
April 8, 2021 • 12 min

Spatial is special for a couple of reasons; one being that it's a field that generates a huge amount of terminology and acronyms! I'm here to cover some of the most common acronyms...
FME 2016 Use Case: Performance Tuning

Mark Ireland
March 31, 2016 • 6 min

I recently finished updating the FME Desktop training for 2016. The Performance chapter in the advanced manual is always one of the most difficult to put together, but also the mos...
FME 2013 Sneak Peek: My Favourite Things

Mark Ireland
October 15, 2012 • 12 min

My Favourite Things: By Mark Ireland It’s that time of year when we all start to look forward to the next release of FME. As usual there are many, many updates. I sometimes t...
FME2010 Use Case: Dynamic Batching

Mark Ireland
April 14, 2010 • 12 min

This use case is intended to show a real world scenario for FME dynamic workspaces, and how to integrate dynamic functionality with batching tools like a Dataset Fanout.
Handling the Unknown Coordinate System

Mark Ireland
November 18, 2009 • 8 min

This short post is about what to do when FME doesn't recognize your coordinate system - and highlights a very little known transformer: the CoordinateSystemDescriptionConverter.
FME Evangelism Weekly Issue #10

Mark Ireland
May 5, 2008 • 10 min

Contents FME 2008 Release Updates AutoCAD Map 3D Object Data Reading Examples Shape Datasets and the Age of Innocence Google Spreadsheets Reader/Writer Creating a Shape Index with ...
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