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Introducing FDO Toolbox
Jackie Ng <[email protected]>
Presentation Overview
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What is FDO?
What is FDO Toolbox?
Major Features of FDO Toolbox
Demos
About Me
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Software Developer for AEC Systems
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http://www.aecsystems.com.au
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Based in Melbourne, Victoria
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Member of FDO Project Steering Committee
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MapGuide Open Source Project contributor
What is FDO?
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FDO: Feature Data Objects
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Multi-platform geospatial data access API
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The “geospatial” equivalent of ODBC, ADO.net
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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
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SDF
SHP
Oracle
PostGIS
WFS
SDF
Provider
SHP
Provider
Oracle
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PostGIS
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WFS
Provider
Others
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Provider
FDO API
App 1
App 2
App 3
App 4
Benefits of FDO
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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.
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Platform/Technology independence
Available on Windows and Linux
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Extensible
Can “plug-in” new FDO providers to access more data formats.
What is FDO Toolbox?
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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
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Support for many different types of spatial
data
Powerful data query / preview / analysis
Data Store Administration
Spatial Data Modeling
Data Conversion / Transformation
Extensibility
Data Access
Open Source Providers
Commercial Providers
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SDF
SHP
SQLite
WFS
WMS
ArcSDE
ODBC (30+ formats)
GDAL (90+ formats)
OGR (30+ formats)
SQL Server 2008
Oracle
KML*
Informix*
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
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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
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FDO Queries
Saving query results to
new files
CRUD (Create, Read,
Update, Delete) *
* Support varies by FDO Provider
Schema Designer
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Create/Define the
structure of a FDO data
store
Supports Constraints *
Can save/load for future
use
* Support varies by FDO Provider
Capability Aware
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Not all FDO Providers
are made equal
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Some providers can
do things that others
can't
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FDO Toolbox is aware
of such capabilities.
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Uses FDO's capability
APIs
Data Conversion / Transformation
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Bulk Copy
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Data Joins
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Chained tasks
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Express Bulk Copy (eg.
SHP to SDF)
Extensibility
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FDO Toolbox was created with
extensibility in mind.
Two approaches:
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Add-Ins, using SharpDevelop framework.
Scripting (via IronPython)
FDO Toolbox
Demo
More Information
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Project: http://fdotoolbox.googlecode.com
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FDO: http://fdo.osgeo.org
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fdo-users: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/fdo-users
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My Blog: http://themapguyde.blogspot.com
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Email me: [email protected]