FME will automatically try to determine the correct coordinate system from the dataset, for formats that store coordinate system information (for example, Shapefiles). This definition is called a "workspace" and can be saved for re-use later.Įach reader and writer in a workspace is assigned a coordinate system. The FME Workbench canvas is where users graphically define a translation. Running a workspace with breakpoints is a useful way to debug a workspace. The attribute may have been part of a source dataset or may have been created within FME.Īdding a breakpoint to a workspace connection tells Workbench to inspect the features at that location. User-created information that belongs to a feature. The act of restructuring the non-spatial component of an FME feature: the attributes relating to the physical geometry undergo a change that produces a different output. The process of connecting source feature type attributes to destination feature type attributes. FME attributes are prefixed with "fme" (for example, fme_geometry or fme_color). It contains information about the data that is used internally by FME. Format attributes are prefixed with the format abbreviation, for example igds_level or autocad_color.Īn attribute that is generated by FME when a source dataset is read. In this example, the feature type is Zone and the attributes are Name, Owner, and Category.Īn attribute that contains data that is part of the format specification.
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