FME Desktop

FME Desktop is a comprehensive piece of software designed to help you manage a wide variety of spatial databases and convert them to a file format that facilitates processing in other third party tools.

Even though the setup is straightforward, the download and setup might take some time considering the size of the installation kit and the license activation procedure. Upon launch, you are welcomed by a clean and well-structured interface that is unlikely to give you any troubles.

As you probably guessed, you can get started by adding the datasets that you want to process. While you can browse to the desired location, you should bear in mind that you can also drag and drop the files directly on top.

Depending on what you need for your project, the application provides you with a tool for a wide variety of operations, including but not limited to transform, merge, validate, re-project, inspect, style, filter or convert.

The idea behind the program is to provide you with an environment where you can work with all data in a central spot. In fact, the highlight of the app stems from the fact that it packs over 475 data transformers, so you can be sure that you have utter control over the content, structure and style of the data.

Among the formats that you can process via this software solution you can count databases like Amazon and Oracle, JSON,  SQL, LAS, PosgreSQL, AVF as well as dozens of Autodesk dataset formats.

In the eventuality that you are working with two or more types of databases and you need to regularly process tables from one another or you just a flexible tool to visualize the data better, then perhaps FME Desktop could come in handy.