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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.
Building on read-only support for NAS GML that was introduced in FME 2006, Safe Software has now moved to
make coordinate conversions easier for German users in FME 2007 by adding beta support for
the NTv2/BeTA2007 grid shift file. The file was provided by the Working Committee of
the Surveying Authorities of the States of the Federal Republic of Germany (AdV). With this latest
release in hand, German FME users are reporting that they are able to rapidly convert data to
ETRS89 from the pervasive DHDN90 coordinate system, as well as other coordinate systems based on the DHDN,
Potsdam and Pulkovo datums.
"The BeTA2007 file is recommended for the transformation of ATKIS® (Authorative Topographic-Cartographic Information System)
data, which is the official administrative database of topographic data for the entire
Federal Republic of Germany," explains Christian Heisig, Head of GIS
Services at con terra GmbH,
in Münster, Germany.
"Support for these coordinate conversions within FME 2007 is a big gain for GIS professionals throughout
the country - the necessary transformations will be very easy with FME technology."
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