Access Midstream faced challenges maintaining their GIS data during a system migration from Oracle to SQL Server. They used FME to automate data migration, build a new GIS system with customized transformers, and automate their reconcile and post-processing workflows. Tyson Moulder describes how they created Python scripts to generate SQL queries for building the new system and developed a workflow to automate their recurring reconcile and post tasks previously done manually.

1. CONNECT. TRANSFORM. AUTOMATE.
Building a Company with FME
(Directions for Hot Chocolate)
Tyson Moulder, Access Midstream
Senior Systems Administrator

2. DIRECTIONS FOR HOT
CHOCOLATE

3. Access Midstream
 Who is Access Midstream?
 Challenges faced by the GIS department in 2013
 Solutions using FME
 Implement our GIS System
 Automated Reconcile and Post Process

4. About Access Midstream

5. Challenges Faced in 2013
 Maintain GIS data in Chesapeake GIS System
during Access Midstream GIS System
Implementation
 Implement a new GIS System, migrating data
from Oracle Geodatabase into SQL Server
Geodatabase
 Accomplish all of these tasks by the middle of
2013

6. CONNECT. TRANSFORM. AUTOMATE.
Building a New GIS System

7. Building a New GIS System
Publish
Database
Editing
Database
External
Systems

8. Building a New GIS System
 A SharePoint list was created to maintain the
Feature Class and Domains to be used

9. Building a New GIS System
 Export to Spreadsheet in order to work with the
list

10. Building a New GIS System
 Add column to concatenate together ArcPy script
using columns from the list

11. Building a New GIS System
 First revision of my Python script generator

12. Building a New GIS System
 Details of Custom Transformer

13. Building a New GIS System
 Final Revision

14. Building a New GIS System
 Details of Custom Transformer in the final revision

15. Building a New GIS System
 The result of all of this hard work:

16. CONNECT. TRANSFORM. AUTOMATE.
Automating the REC/POST Process

17. Automating the Rec/Post Process
 In the Chesapeake environment, a scheduled
process was custom developed to implement the
rec/post process for our versioned layers
 We determined we wouldn’t be able to support this
process moving forward; a different solution was
necessary

18. Automating the Rec/Post Process
 The solution:

19. Automating the Rec/Post Process
 The workflow to implement the solution

20. Thank You!
 Questions?
 For more information:
Tyson Moulder
tyson.moulder@accessmidstream.com
http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.1/inde
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