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Introducing FDO Toolbox

Jackie Ng < jackie.ng@aecsystems.com.au>. Introducing FDO Toolbox. What is FDO? What is FDO Toolbox? Major Features of FDO Toolbox Demos. Presentation Overview. About Me. Software Developer for AEC Systems http://www.aecsystems.com.au Based in Melbourne, Victoria

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Introducing FDO Toolbox

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  1. Jackie Ng <jackie.ng@aecsystems.com.au> Introducing FDO Toolbox

  2. What is FDO? What is FDO Toolbox? Major Features of FDO Toolbox Demos Presentation Overview

  3. About Me • Software Developer for AEC Systems • http://www.aecsystems.com.au • Based in Melbourne, Victoria • Member of FDO Project Steering Committee • MapGuide Open Source Project contributor

  4. What is FDO? • FDO: Feature Data Objects • Multi-platform geospatial data access API • The “geospatial” equivalent of ODBC, ADO.net • Developed by Autodesk, used in all of their geospatial products. • Open-sourced in 2006, made into an official OSGeo project • http://fdo.osgeo.org

  5. FDO Overview SDF SHP Oracle PostGIS WFS ? Others SDF Provider SHP Provider Oracle Provider PostGIS Provider WFS Provider ? Provider FDO API App 1 App 4 App 2 App 3

  6. A single, unified interface to access data Access data in their native formats. No translation/conversion required! Users don't have to understand differences in underlying data stores. Platform/Technology independence Available on Windows and Linux Extensible Can “plug-in” new FDO providers to access more data formats. Benefits of FDO

  7. What is FDO Toolbox? • A GUI “front-end” to the FDO API • A multi-purpose geospatial data tool. • Leverages the features and benefits of FDO • Written in C# (.net Framework 2.0) • Open Source under LGPL

  8. History • Development started in June 2008 • Inspiration: • Fdo2Fdo* • Database Admin. Tools: • Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio • MySQL Administrator • pgAdmin • etc • I wanted to explore all the capabilities that FDO has to offer (quite a lot!) * http://www.sl-king.com/Fdo2Fdo/fdo2fdo.html

  9. The Tools in the Toolbox • Support for many different types of spatial data • Powerful data query / preview / analysis • Data Store Administration • Spatial Data Modeling • Data Conversion / Transformation • Extensibility

  10. Open Source Providers SDF SHP SQLite WFS WMS ArcSDE ODBC (30+ formats) GDAL (90+ formats) OGR (30+ formats) SQL Server 2008 Oracle KML* Informix* Data Access • Commercial Providers • Raster (ECW, MrSID, etc) • Oracle • FME • GE Smallworld • SQL Server 2000,2005 • SuperMap GIS • Others? That's over 150+ formats (and counting)! * Not included in the standard FDO distribution. Freely available from SL-King (http://www.sl-king.com)

  11. Data Preview / Query • Preview attribute data in a table • Construct complex, powerful queries with the Expression Editor • Preview spatial data in a map (via SharpMap) • Has non-spatial applications (eg. A simple database viewer)

  12. Data Manipulation • FDO Queries • Saving query results to new files • CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) * * Support varies by FDO Provider

  13. Schema Designer • Create/Define the structure of a FDO data store • Supports Constraints * • Can save/load for future use * Support varies by FDO Provider

  14. Capability Aware • Not all FDO Providers are made equal • Some providers can do things that others can't • FDO Toolbox is aware of such capabilities. • Uses FDO's capability APIs

  15. Data Conversion / Transformation • Bulk Copy • Data Joins • Chained tasks • Express Bulk Copy (eg. SHP to SDF)

  16. Extensibility • FDO Toolbox was created with extensibility in mind. • Two approaches: • Add-Ins, using SharpDevelop framework. • Scripting (via IronPython)

  17. Demo FDO Toolbox

  18. More Information • Project: http://fdotoolbox.googlecode.com • FDO: http://fdo.osgeo.org • fdo-users: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/fdo-users • My Blog: http://themapguyde.blogspot.com • Email me: jackie.ng@aecsystems.com.au

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