Safe Software announced that the latest release of its spatial ETL (extract, transform, and load) platform, FME 2007, offers extensive enhancements focused on the needs of the European geospatial community.
Released in June, FME 2007 represents the most recent of several offerings from Safe Software that have allowed GIS and IT professionals in many European countries to more effectively address the challenges of working with new national standards. National data models and other country-specific formats make up more than 30 of the 190 GIS, CAD, raster and database formats supported by FME. With enhanced support for several of these national schemas and new support for important European coordinate systems, FME 2007 will play an important role in allowing central, regional and local governments and other organizations to more easily manage and exchange geospatial data.
"As the de facto leader in providing data interoperability solutions, Safe has always felt a responsibility to support European users," says Don Murray, President of Safe Software. "In FME 2006 GB, and now FME 2007, we have made a concerted effort to expand support for formats and coordinate systems that will allow European users to expedite the integration of new national standards."
Simplifying Data Reprojection for Swedish Users
In Sweden, Michael Skoglund, President of Metria’s SWEREF99 Competence Centre within Lantmäteriet (National Land Survey of Sweden) described FME 2007’s release as occurring "just in time" for Sweden. In January 2007, Sweden changed the national standard coordinate reference system from RT90 to SWEREF99 to accelerate the implementation of their national geodata infrastructure. The change left many agencies searching for tools that could efficiently process the enormous volume of existing data – both raster and vector – while maintaining a high standard of database quality.
Source: Safe Software