GTViewer Format Support Available in Safe Software's FME Suite 2005.MADISON, Ala. -- Graphic Technologies, Inc. is pleased to announce that GTViewer has been added to the set of formats supported by FME FME Formal Methods Europe FME Faculty of Mechanical Engineering (Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic) FME Feature Manipulation Engine FME Facultat de Matemà tiques I EstadÃstica Suite 2005 from Safe Software Inc. This addition enables GTViewer users to gain access to spatial data Data that is represented as 2D or 3D images. A geographic information system (GIS) is one of the primary applications of spatial data (land maps). See spatial analysis, spatial resolution and GIS glossary. in more than 150 different formats, including ArcSDE, Geodatabase, PostGIS, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) DB2, MapInfo, AutoCAD, and many others. By providing low-cost and intuitive access to geospatial data, GTViewer expands the number of people who can make use of that data and thereby grows its value in accordance with Metcalfe's Law "The value of a network increases exponentially with the number of nodes." By Bob Metcalfe, founder of 3Com Corporation and major designer of Ethernet. A network becomes more useful as more users are connected. A primary example is the Internet. . "The addition of GTViewer into the FME hub allows this viewer and application platform to be deployed by anyone using ESRI (Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc., Redlands, CA, www.esri.com) The world's leading developer of geographic information systems (GIS) software, including programs that plot ZIP codes and addresses, demographic information and detailed, color-coded data. , Intergraph, Smallworld, Oracle, or any other GIS system supported by FME," said Dale Lutz, Vice President of Development for Safe Software. "This breakthrough for GTViewer makes it part of an enterprise solution. No user is trapped with the software suite from a single vendor," said Graphic Technologies, Inc. consultant Charlie Marlin. "With support through FME, the gold standard for geospatial data integration, GTViewer becomes part of an enterprise solution. Data is seamlessly moved to the field for markup, then the markups can be taken right back into the GIS." Both a reader and writer for GTViewer are available inside the FME Suite 2005 (Professional Edition and higher). Data from any format read by FME can be written to a data set that GTViewer can display. Conversely, any redlines made by someone within GTViewer (whether graphics, tabular, or both) can be written back to the format used by the host GIS, or to any other format written by FME. For more information, or to download an evaluation of this product, please visit: www.safe.com. More about Graphic Technologies, Inc. (GTI GTI Gas Technology Institute GTI Global Taxonomy Initiative GTI Good Time Interval GTI Guelph Turfgrass Institute GTI Green Theme International GTI Gordon Training International GTI Georgia Transportation Institute GTI Group Travel Insurance ) GTI offers consulting and software to the geospatial industry. Its flagship viewer and application platform, GTViewer, provides high-performance view, query, print, and redline functionality. It also provides a platform for work sketch, inspection, and other applications. Visit www.gti-us.com for more information. More about FME Suite FME Suite is an integrated collection of Spatial ETL Spatial ETL tools provide the data processing functionality of traditional Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) software, but with a primary focus on the ability to manage spatial data (which may also be called geographic, map or location data). (Extract, Transform, and Load) tools for data transformation and data translation. FME technology allows users to easily work with data from over 150 different formats. FME Suite consists of three major components: a graphical authoring environment (FME Workbench), a data inspection tool (FME Viewer), and a translation engine (FME Universal Translator The universal translator is a fictional device common to many science fiction works, especially on television. Its purpose is to offer an instant translation of any language. ) that can be run from within Workbench or as part of a batch system See batch processing. . Visit www.safe.com for more information. More about Safe Software Safe Software Inc. is the industry leader in Spatial ETL (Extract, Transform, and Load) technologies and provides both spatial data transformation solutions and professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. . For more than 10 years, Safe Software has focused on helping organizations enhance access to spatial data by providing software solutions that deliver seamless data format translation. Our website features free evaluations of our software products, demos, product and service information, product training, product movies, success stories, online communities and much more. For more information, visit us at www.safe.com. 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