Converting the City’s Electrical Data from Smallworld to Microstation Format
Date
Friday, January 16, 2015
Presenters
Janna Fung, EPCOR
City
Edmonton
Location
canada
Event
FME World Tour 2015
Session Type
User
Industry
Utilities
Presentation Details
Electrical GIS data is updated in EPCOR’s GE Smallworld Electric Office system on a daily basis. FME is used automate conversion of this data to Microstation DGN format nightly, generating consistent and updated information to CAD users and members of the GeoEdmonton partnership, including the City of Edmonton and other organizations. This presentation will also delve into some of the technical challenges of this conversion, including converting a complex filtering segment with 150 transformers into a maintainable and organized workspace with custom transformers.