Using FME to Help the Field Help You

My talk will focus on how I’m using a few workbenches that are run daily in FME Flow ensure that data is ready for final processing and integration into systems of record at bp Terminals and Pipelines. We have a few hundred field staff that use ESRI’s Survey123 to collect data on repairs made to our pipelines. My talk will highlight how FME helps the GIS team perform spatial QC on that data, manage a complex review and approval process involving field and office staff, and make final loading of data into systems of record a breeze. The first workbench I’ll highlight looks at the GPS point captured for the report, and whether it is within a certain distance of our pipeline centerline. If it is not within a certain distance, then the user will be alerted, and asked whether our centerline is in the wrong spot, or if their GPS point is in the wrong location. The second workbench I’ll highlight will show how data collected in the field is moved through a review/approval process from field to office staff. FME takes data collected in Survey123, visualizes that data in a more human-readable format (Word Document), and alerts users when it is time for them to review and approve data assigned to them. Finally, I’ll highlight how FME helps the GIS staff easily bulk load this data collected in the field into a PODS database for company-wide visualization and access.