Hi Jason, I'll make sure to pass these on to our raster development team. The big thing for 2007 is going to be raster mosaic-ing. From what I've heard it's pretty funky stuff, and (if I read the figures right) in a recent test FME divided a 1.6GB geotiff file into 1000 tiles and mosaicked them back together in 6 minutes. It'll even handle overlapping tiles (the last tile in wins) and overlaps with nodata values.
Mark --- In [email protected], "Jason Birch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I remember doing some really cool stuff back when I worked for the provincial government and was still in ESRI's good books (I think I met Myron down at UC2001) :) A lot of it was based on this guy's work: > > http://gis.esri.com/library/userconf/proc98/PROCEED/TO850/PAP842/P842.HTM <http://gis.esri.com/library/userconf/proc98/PROCEED/TO850/PAP842/P842.HTM> > > With some influences from ShadeMax: > > http://arcscripts.esri.com/details.asp?dbid=11641 <http://arcscripts.esri.com/details.asp?dbid=11641> > > After the FME conference, I was really hyped up about raster and was going to put in some requests... Unfortunately, work has got in my way; haven't been able to think about this clearly... > > Here's a dump of what's in the back of my mind: > > - common functions on DEM (slope, aspect, flowaccumulation, hillshade). > > - RasterReclassifier: like combination of a RasterCellValueReplacer and a VariableRasterClassifier, allowing specification of the values to replace the bands with arbitrary values > > - support for other color models (HSV especially for painted relief) > > - general purpose RasterCalculator. This would be like the expression evaluator, but could also take multiple inputs. Like... Output = Input1 * (Input2 / 255) > > - advanced functionality in RasterCalculator. OK, this is when it gets mindbending. Allow RasterCalculator to work in a cell-based mode with offsets. Like Output [] = (Input1[-2,-2] * 0.25) + (Input1[-2,-1] * 0.33) > > Sorry Dale, afraid I can't provide a business case on this one. Just something that I've been missing in general since I no longer have Grid to play with. Here's a post (with a comment from me) on some of the more advanced raster analysis I'd love to be able to do with FME: > > http://gismatters.blogspot.com/2006/10/simulation-and-modeling-geoprocessing.html <http://gismatters.blogspot.com/2006/10/simulation-and-modeling-geoprocessing.html> > > Jason > > ________________________________ > > From: [email protected] on behalf of Dale Lutz > Sent: Tue 2007-03-06 9:16 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [fme] Re: Raster Technical Bulletin > > > > Hi Ron, > > > > Just wondering is the a method in FME to produce shaded relief > > images from > > > these datasets? > > Now there is a very fun idea. It is true from a business point of view > it may be hard to justify doing this, and its not on our roadmap, but as > a weekend project it would be great to do it. I believe I wrote software > like this as part of a university project in 1988 during my undergrad at > the U of A -- I took a graduate level remote sensing course on a whim in > my last year of Comp Sci, and we did stuff like this in FORTRAN I think. > For insights into what's up at Safe Software and what's on the development horizon, visit Safe's blog at spatial-etl.blogspot.com. Safe Software has also made slides available that outline enhancements planned for FME 2007. The slides are from the "Road Ahead" presentation given on Day 2 of the FME Worldwide Users Conference. To view these slides, visit www.safe.com/2006uc. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fme/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fme/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
