Archive for September, 2007

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New FME Custom Transformer: the SidedBufferer

Wednesday, September 12, 2007

A new custom transformer for FME has just been released: the SidedBufferer. This allows for the creation of buffers with different widths to the left and right of the original features. It can be downloaded and used for free.

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Hans van der Maarel of Red Geographics to present at NACIS conference

Monday, September 10, 2007

Hans van der Maarel of Red Geographics will be doing 2 presentations during the upcoming NACIS conference (Oct. 10-13, St. Louis). The first one, as part of Practical Cartography Day, will focus on how FME can be used to assist a cartographic workflow.

The second one will discuss the production process used for the world map Red Geographics produced for Oolaalaa’s spherical chairs, and what problems had to be overcome to get to the perfect end result.