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S M A R T E R D A T A

S M A RT E R WORLD

1 S P A T I A L C O N F E R E N C E - L O N D O N

D a v i d E a g l e

F M E D i v i s i o n M a n a g e r

S M A R T E R D A T A S M A R T E R W O R L D

for Transportation

FME Division [email protected]

@david_eagle

mailto:[email protected]

Our Approach

Joining up business systems

and automating data

processing for our customers

ETL solutions to address our customer’s data translation and system integration challenges

Partnershipto offer best of

breed technology

https://www.opendatani.gov.uk/dataset/real-time-rail-stations-arrivals-and-departures

http://roadworks.org/


Data Access

An organisation having smart data doesn’t always

mean that it’s accessible:

• To the wider business;

• the system that needs to consume it; or

• the person that needs the answer to a question.

Data can be ‘siloed’ in proprietary systems.

Stored in non-standard formats.

Held by partners outside the LAN.

Data Access

Transport data providers

Assets

Environmental Constraints

Customers

Contractors

Addressing, Billing, Expenses, Time Cards,

OD Surveys

Strategic Planning & National Infrastructure

Projects

Street works

Incidents

Data containers


Solving the data access puzzle

• Under the bonnet of 1Spatial’s technology and independent of it, we use .

• It extends the format reach of our solutions.

• Solving data translation and transformation problems.

A powerful format translation tool, processing:

• Pixels, rows, polygons, points…

• Support for over 450 formats.


Unlocking data formats

• Vendor formats• Esri File Geodatabase

• MapInfo

• Microstation DGN

• Autodesk DWG

• Oracle

• MS SQL Server/Azure

• Excel

• Amazon S3

• Salesforce.com

• PDF

• Tableau

• …and another 400 or so

• Open Source\Standards• OpenStreetMap

• ESRI Geodatabase (Open API)

• OGC GeoPackage

• Google KML

• Postgres/PostGIS

• SQLite/SpatiaLite

• XML, JSON

• IFC (for BIM)

• CityGML

• NetCDF

• CARTO


Data TranslationCAD>GIS GIS>CAD


GIS to CAD and CAD to GIS

• 80% of people who buy FME do so to handle CAD to GIS data challenges.

• Merging CAD Tiles or Tiling GIS data

• Projecting CAD data for GIS, resolving CAD precision for GIS.

• Converting CAD text to features, converting GIS features to text.

• Converting CAD Blocks and Cells to features, GIS features to Blocks.

• Etc etc

• Moving data between departments

is vital on engineering projects


Small CAD to GIS projects – big savings

• Design department typically uses CAD products to design street layout.

• Sometimes data standards go off track.

• 500 AutoCAD DWGs, assets stored on different layers

• Street lighting

• Traffic Regulation Orders (TRO) – Yellow lines, Taxi Ranks etc

• Quoted 2 weeks work to extract assets to 2 clear GIS layers

• 1Spatial support case – 10 minutes to write the process, 1 minute to run

• Achieved via our standard technical support agreement


Large GIS to CAD projects – big efficiencies

• We’re currently working on a project under the Offering Rail Better Information Services

(ORBIS) programme.

• Exchange of Asset Information (EAI) gets track, signal, signal boxes, switch data and lots

more out into the hands of contractors.

• …most importantly they can return any changes they make digitally, something previously

not possible.

Network Rail

Contractors

Package of Data

Data Changes


Large GIS to CAD projects – big efficiencies

• The user can define the ‘extents’ of data to check-out through Geocortex.

• The 1Spatial Management Suite manages all aspects of the ‘job’.

• FME Server performs the data extract.

• The solution reads from Oracle and writes Excel & DGN, mapping to the new schema.

• The return data journey includes change detection with FME and our unique rules-based

validation with 1Validate.


80%

We apply agile working principles

Work with key stakeholders in your organisation

Collate ‘user stories’ to help understand your data

Link the stories to your underlying business needs

Define how one system ‘communicates’ with another

Agree “the mission”

Projects, the 1Spatial way - Customer collaboration

20%

Build the solution


Data Collaboration


Data collaboration

Open data agenda + Proliferation of cloud storage

=Explosion of served data

& Innovation

Data sharing fosters collaboration and creativity

Data collaboration fosters innovation

We need to release the data…


Data distribution with FME

http://bit.ly/openwales

http://lle.gov.wales



http://lle.gov.wales/


Collaboration around a common coordinate system

• Who’s heard of SnakeGrid?

• Used on large engineering projects – railways, highways, pipelines

• A single seamless CRS with a scale factor within a few parts per million of unity all along the

route and for several kilometres on either side.

• Produced by UCL Business

• Available as a Microstation add-on and a plugin to FME

• Core to HS2 – allowing construction and engineering firms to collaborate between design

and build


Data Innovation


• The way we travel is changing…

• The volume of data generated by firms like

Uber is hard to comprehend

• https://eng.uber.com/data-viz-intel/

• Visualisation techniques are helping Uber to

spot gaps in the market.

• price dynamically

• offer new services

• help cities improve their downtown GPS signal

Disruptors and innovators

https://eng.uber.com/data-viz-intel/


• FME allows you to connect to a myriad

of data services.

• https://hub.safe.com/web_connections/

uber

• FME can write to Tableau, Kibana,

PowerBI and HTML so you can create

your own dashboards


https://hub.safe.com/web_connections/uber


• Interested in finding out where to grab a bicycle from when

you’re on a trip without your own 2 wheels?

• Check out the www.bikesharingmap.com

• Here’s just a few of the cycle hire firms and their data

https://github.com/ubahnverleih/WoBike


http://www.bikesharingmap.com/

https://github.com/ubahnverleih/WoBike


• Let’s have a look at the availability of NextBikes at their racks

• https://www.nextbike.co.uk/en/cardiff/locations/

• …and now with FME


https://www.nextbike.co.uk/en/cardiff/locations/


A glimpse of the future… perhaps?

Summary

Data always lives somewhere, FME extends your format reach to 100s of formats and 1,000s of APIs (https://www.programmableweb.com/).

Moving data from where it is, to where it needs to be is not just about the technology. 1Spatial has the people to help you translate the intelligence of your business, not just the data.

Automate out the mundane as much as you can with our technology, so you can get back to the high value data analysis and innovation.

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