About This Document

This manual is the introductory-level training course for authoring translations for FME Server.

Look out for residents of the City of Interopolis, who will appear from time-to-time to give you advice and dispense FME-related wisdom. In fact, here comes someone now:

Mr. E.Dict (Attorney of FME Law) says...

On behalf of the City of Interopolis, welcome to this training course. Here is the standard legal information about this training document and the datasets used during the course.
Be sure to read it, particularly if you're thinking about re-using or modifying this content.

Licensing and Warranty

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The origin of the Tutorials and any associated FME® software must not be misrepresented.
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You may not suggest that any modified version of the Tutorials is endorsed or approved by Safe Software Inc.
Redistributions in original or modified form must include a disclaimer similar to that below which: (a) states that the Tutorials are provided “as-is”; (b) disclaims any warranties; and (c) waives any liability claims.

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This manual describes the functionality and use of the software at the time of publication. The software described herein, and the descriptions themselves, are subject to change without notice.

Data Sources

City of Vancouver

Unless otherwise stated, the data used here originates from open data made available by the City of Vancouver, British Columbia. It contains information licensed under the Open Government License - Vancouver.

Others

Forward Sortation Areas: Statistics Canada, 2011 Census Digital Boundary Files, 2013. Reproduced and distributed on an "as is" basis with the permission of Statistics Canada. © This data includes information copied with permission from Canada Post Corporation.

Digital Elevation Model: GeoBase®

Stanley Park GPS Trail: Used with kind permission of VancouverTrails.com.

OpenStreetMap Datasets: © OpenStreetMap contributors. See www.openstreetmap.org/copyright.

Copyright

Revisions

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Safe Software Inc. assumes no responsibility for any errors in this document or their consequences, and reserves the right to make improvements and changes to this document without notice.

Trademarks

FME® is a registered trademark of Safe Software Inc. All brand or product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies or organizations.

Document Information

Document Name: FME Server Authoring Training Manual 2018.0

All screenshots relate to FME Desktop and FME Server 2018.0; This manual has been tested with FME Desktop and FME Server 2018.0 Build 18xxx.

What's New?

A list of changes to this manual and its accompanying datasets can be found on GitHub at https://github.com/safesoftware/FMETraining/blob/Server-Authoring-2018/WhatsNew.md. The file includes a list of general revisions compared to the previous year's materials. It is designed to help trainers become up-to-speed with new content, and for students to identify which FME functionality is new for the current release.

Introduction