BBOX.ME (OSM to Google Earth) via FME

BBOX.ME (OSM to Google Earth) via FME


Left toolbar highlight large data download - red (large) amber medium and green is small data.
(OSM Servers will restrict large downloads automatically)

Take OpenStreetMap and via it's API, users can download an area of interest.

in this case:

"http:\\api.openstreetmap.org\api\0.6\map?bbox=-0.4994028225856829,53.73689294256218,-0.4839962145221512,53.74135397370099"

is requested from the OSM server via the OSM API.


FME Workbench for converting to Google (or 3D PDF etc)

Output is A clean representation of OSM in Google Earth - but with 3D Building Extruded from the data. This can also be viewed in Streetview in Google Earth.


Extruded 3D Building (from Open Street Map) overlaid in Streetview in Google Earth.


This does use FME Desktop (a 30 day trail is available) which can convert the OSM files into Google Earth

Try BBOX.ME (created and founded by Peter Segersted and Ulf Mansson)
http://bbox.me/osm/

FME 2011 - Released

FME 2011 - Released

FME 2011 release today

"Probably the best Feature Manipulation Engine [FME] GIS/CAD conversion software you can get."

FME 2011 release "story through some numbers"

Top Pick from Mapperz #osm data reader and writer!

• 25,000: Approximate number of CPU hours spent on the automated testing of FME 2011
• 8320: Number of automated tests run each weekend
• 8304: Number of source code check-ins on the FME 2011 code tree
• 6249: Number of automated tests run on each daily FME build
• 2602: Number of documented development tasks closed during FME 2011
• 1008: Number of in-person attendees at FME User Meetings during calendar 2010
• 592: Number of unique customer requests resolved with FME 2011
• 416: Number of transformers shipped with FME 2011
• 265: Number of formats supported by FME 2011
• 201: Number of builds of FME 2011 that have been made (so far)
• 20: Number of hours of CPU a complete test run takes on the fastest platform
• 15: Number of months that we’ve been actively developing on FME 2011
• 11: Average percentage speedup of FME 2011 vs. FME 2010 across all tests which run for more than 7 seconds
• 5: Number of platforms the above tests are run on
• 1: FME 2011 Gold master DVD shipped off to the press

"All these numbers add up to what we believe is the highest quality, most powerful, and most usable FME ever."

Driven by User Feedback
FME have been able to implement so many excellent suggestions from users (many of which we received during our user meetings throughout the year) – including:

a) Ability to work with LiDAR and point cloud data
b) Templates to get you started down the right path
c) Convenient SQL Querying
d) Scheduling and a REST API for FME Server
e) A greatly expanded set of Tester predicates
f) Inline data inspection – “workspace debugging” if you like. No more waiting for a translation to finish to see what the results are
g) “Styler” transformers for customizing CAD output
h) More powerful XML support
i) Support for cloud options (Windows Azure, Google Spreadsheet, etc)

http://blog.safe.com/2011/01/fme-2011-a-retrospective-on-todays-release/