Sep. 21-22, 2006v FME Worldwide User Conference - Vancouver

SpatialDirect in a European Cross Border Project

Mark Doering & Christian Heisig, con terra, Germany

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Founded in 1994 A spin-off of the Institute

of Geoinformatics, University of Münster

65 Employees mainly computer-

& geoscientists

Münster, Germany Karlsruhe, Germany Warsaw, Poland

Revenue 2005 5,5 Mio. EUR

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Software Development Using Standard Software Products and Open Source

Components

Professional Services Consulting Training Support

Sales of Standard Software Products ESRI, Safe Software and con terra‘s own technology (e.g.

sdi.suite, GISPAD)

Active Members of ISO/TC 211, OGC, INSPIRE Principal Member of 52°North

(www.52north.org)

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FME-History of con terra

1997 – Inquiry for interfaces for DGN, DXF, SHP, MIF 1997 – First tests of FME 2.0 1998 – Use of FME 2.1 in WAGIS-Project 1998 – Reseller Agreement with Safe Software 1999 – FME-Betatest-Program 2001 – First Joint Exhibition on INTERGEO, Germany 2002 – FME-Service Center for Europe - Strategy 2003 – Development of the first localized Version of FME

(German) 2004 – First German Speaking User Meeting (www.fme-

anwendertreffen.de) 2005 – Grips-Reader PlugIn 2006 – CityGML-Writer PlugIn

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FME - Service Center

1st-Level Support for FME-Users Delivery of Evaluation License Codes Organization of Joint Exhibits with Safe Software Hosting the yearly FME User Group Meeting in Germany Integration of FME technology Development and Maintenance of the German FME Version Development of 3rd-Party PlugIns (e.g. GRIPS-Reader,

CityGML-Writer) FME-Professional Services

Training (Consulting) Support (1st and 2nd Level)

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Professional Services/Software Development

Solution

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The LoG-In-Project

INTERREG IIIb Project, supported by the European Union

Client Consortium Intercommunale Leiedal,

Belgium Landkreis Rotenburg-

Wümme, Germany Norfolk County Council, UK

+35 lower city authorities Vendor Consortium

ESRI-Belux, -Germany, -UK and con terra

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Project Goalsof the LoG-In-Project

The main goals of the LoG-IN project are … to improve the information exchange

between local and higher government levels

to build a generic information infrastructure

to focus on service based infrastructures and interoperability

ICT forms an important dimension of the project. LoG-IN wants to understand how to use ICT to (i) Improve local government processes (e-administration); (ii) Improve service development and distribution (e-services) and (iii) Improve public-private interaction (e-society).

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Three Tier Architecture

1. Generic information infrastructure - The Data Tier is the technical framework to store information and to manage access to information

2. The Tools Tier includes sdi.suite-, ArcGIS Server- and FME technology

3. The Application Tier refers to the applications that will be built using Data Tier and Tools Tier

The investment for the data tier and the tools tier will be shared; the application tier will be developed by eachproject partner individually

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Three Tier Architecture

InformationUser Data Spatial Data

Data Tier

Tools Tier

sdi.suite ArcGIS Server Spatial Direct

GIS Clients HTML Clients WMS / WFS

Application Tier

SAP/CRM/ERP

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sdi.suite coponents

serviceMonitor

securityManager

Tools-Tier

sdi.suite ArcGIS Server Spatial Direct

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ArcGIS Server 9.2

Solve the GIS-functionality-specific tasks Scalable using standards (SOAP/XML) Perfect for integrating GIS-components into

enterprise architectures Useful for internal and external processes of

the governments Multi user enabled

Tools-Tier

sdi.suite ArcGIS Server Spatial Direct

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ArcGIS Server

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FME Server

Harmonization of spatial data Coordinate-transformation Format-translation (DXF, Shape, SQD, …) Quality ensurance (plausibility check, consistency) ArcSDE-Import

Data Manipulation Creating a new database modell (ArcSDE) Automated Geoprocessing on server site Intergration of spatial information into business

processes (statistical analyses )

Tools-Tier

sdi.suite ArcGIS Server Spatial Direct

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SpatialDirect

Providing Spatial Data (Intranet/Internet) Download Data (Shape, DXF, SQD) Upload Data (Shape, DXF into ArcSDE) Quality ensurance for upload data and the data

integration processes

Tools-Tier

sdi.suite ArcGIS Server Spatial Direct

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SpatialDirect

Translation Servlet

QServer

FME Server(Server-Mode)

resultQserver API-

Call

resultFME API Call

Web Server

Monitor

LoG-In-Spatial Data

Data Transfer

Web-Browser HTML Interface

HTTP Request(URL)

ResultDownload-Link

Download

DXFShape

FME Mapping FilesFME Mapping Files

FME Mapping FilesFME Mapping Files

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FME-Server

Extended version of FMECommunication with QServer over TCP/IP-Port

Operates in server mode with mapping files (control files)

Processes requests for data translation

Fully Scalable could be installed on a separate server

Dataflow in both directions (Download/Upload)

Translation Servlet

QServer

FME Server(Server-Modus)

resultQserver API-

Call

resultFME API Call

Monitor

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Q-Server (API)

Management-Layer-Application(queues translation requests)

Implemented in Java (API for Java, C, C++)

Load Balancing (load balances requests if more than one FME is installed)

Performance Monitoring

Translation Servlet

QServer

FME Server(Server-Modus)

resultQserver API-

Call

resultFME API Call

Monitor

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Translation-Servlet (API)

Front-End of SpatialDirect Translates the requests HTTP

request (URL, TCP/IP) Implemented in Java Provides results to the Q-Server

and Web-Client (URL) Result implementation into HTML-

Templates

Translation Servlet

QServer

FME Server(Server-Modus)

resultQserver API-

Call

resultFME API Call

Monitor

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Step 1 Clip: Users select the section of the map they’d like to receive in the format and projection of their choice.

Step 2 Zipped: Data is Zipped!

Step 3 Shipped: Data is shipped to your desktop!

1

2

3

Clip, Zip and Ship!

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Final Architecture

Monitoring DataUser Identities

Data-Tier

User Rights Spatial Data

Tools-Tier

HTML Admin Client HTML Clients WMS / WFS

Application-Tier

GIS / CAD ClientsArcEditor Client

AdminAdmin UserUser

HTTP

securityManager HTML Admin ClientserviceMonitor

ESRI ArcGIS ServerserviceMonitor

HTTP

securityManager

ESRIArcSDE

SOAP Web Services

OGCWMS

OGCWFS

Web Authentification Service

SpatialDirect / FME

Log-IN Server FrameworkLog-IN Server Framework

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Conclusion

The combination of sdi.suite components, ArcGIS

Server and FME/SpatialDirect technology are…

ideal components for a modern SOA providing complementary functionality fully scalable (adds processing functionality as

needed) cost effective - no client licenses required

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More Information…

http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/interreg3/index_de.htm

http://www.login-project.net/php/data.php

http://www.norfolk.gov.uk/

http://www.leiedal.be

http://www.rotenburg-wuemme.de/

http://www.conterra.de/

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Thank You!

Gesellschaft für AngewandteInformationstechnologie mbH

Martin-Luther-King-Weg 2448155 Münster, GermanyTel: +49-251-7474.0Fax: +49-251-7474.100e-mail: fme@conterra.dewww.conterra.de

Mark Döring

Christian Heisig