FME, also known as Feature Manipulation Engine, is a geospatial extract, transformation and load software platform developed and maintained by Safe Software of

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. FME was first released in 1996, and evolved out of a successful bid by the founders of Safe Software, Don Murray and Dale Lutz, for a Canadian Government contract to monitor logging activities.

Software

The base product is FME Desktop; this is a standalone software package with an interface that enables the user to graphically build workflows for data translation, automation, and format and

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conversion. FME Server is an 'on premise' solution that permits on demand server based instantiations of tailored FME workflows. FME Cloud is similar to FME Server however is hosted 'as needed' in the

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Cloud. FME data transformation workflows typically consist of a combination of the following 'building blocks': # ''Readers'' to input from single or multiple data sources in a variety of formats or databases. # ''Transformers'' to manipulate, transform and analyse the data. # ''Writers'' to output the data in a number of different formats. Any number of readers, writers and transformers can be used in an FME workflow. A further tool is the ''Data Inspector'', which can present spatial workflow results in a cartographic display. The

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software can use the FME engine and workflows as part of the data interoperability extension. In 2015 the FME software was integrated with the

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geolocation system.

Use Base

As of November 2022, FME has an estimated 0.32% of the total

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software market. The Information Technology, governmental, utilities, and oil and gas sectors form the largest organisational user base. Examples of the use of FME include routing for emergency fire response, and backend data quality management and sub-surface modelling for infrastructure projects.

Criticism and Reviews

FME is considered a comprehensive platform for

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data exchange and support of spatial data. Reviews indicate it is strong in the analytic, conversion and

interoperability Interoperability is a characteristic of a product or system to work with other products or systems. While the term was initially defined for information technology or systems engineering services to allow for information exchange, a broader def ...

areas, flexible in scope, with a strong user community. However, the

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capability is considered poor, interactive editing tools are absent, and the licensing costs are seen as significant.

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