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Presentation Overview
• What is FDO?• What is FDO Toolbox?• Major Features of FDO Toolbox• Demos
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
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
FDO Overview
SDF SHP
FDO API
PostGISOracle
SDFProvider
SHPProvider
OracleProvider
PostGISProvider
WFSProvider
?Provider
?Others
App 1 App 2 App 4
WFS
App 3
Benefits of FDO
• 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 independenceAvailable on Windows and Linux
• ExtensibleCan “plug-in” new FDO providers to access more data formats.
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
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
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
Data AccessOpen Source Providers
• SDF• SHP• SQLite• WFS• WMS• ArcSDE• ODBC (30+ formats)• GDAL (90+ formats)• OGR (30+ formats)• SQL Server 2008• Oracle• KML*• Informix*
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)
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)
Data Manipulation
FDO Queries Saving query results to
new files CRUD (Create, Read,
Update, Delete) *
* Support varies by FDO Provider
Schema Designer
Create/Define the structure of a FDO data store
Supports Constraints * Can save/load for future
use
* Support varies by FDO Provider
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
Data Conversion / Transformation
Bulk Copy Data Joins Chained tasks Express Bulk Copy (eg.
SHP to SDF)
Extensibility
FDO Toolbox was created with extensibility in mind.
Two approaches: Add-Ins, using SharpDevelop framework. Scripting (via IronPython)
FDO Toolbox
Demo
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: [email protected]
