FME Solutions - Railroad Data
Extract, transform, and enrich railroad data for GIS using FME/Client
Capital Metro
Austin, Texas
The client had a collection of data related to two main railway lines that traveled through the city. Tessellations was tasked to review all original data that existed in either CAD or KMZ formats, and organize and categorize the data as to whether they were right of ways, assets, or encroachments related to the railway centerline. An FME workflow was developed to extract the data, handling each data source appropriately. The FME process was designed to determine the data type, and measure and capture the location of each element along the length of the railway line. Custom transformers were developed to handle the different data geometry types in order to accurately measure each data element extracted and placed along the railway line. The final product was a geodatabase with all extracted data as a point, line, or polygon feature class, along with the original data source, the type of data element and description, and the measure along the length of the railway line, as attribute information.
Services Provided:
Background research on existing rail data and categorize appropriately
Develop ETL solution with FME
Deliver clean and attribute-rich GIS data
Solutions
Solutions
- Reviewed the data in the original format to determine the best course of action.
- Developed an FME process to extract the data from each of the original data sources while measuring the location of each data element along the length of the railway line.
- Developed custom transformers in FME to capture measurements along the railway line based on the incoming data geometry type.
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