Using FME to enhance the Winter Maintenance

WebMap

Daragh McDonough

GIS Project Leader

Donegal County Council

@DonegalMaps

http://donegal.maps.arcgis.com

FME & Donegal County Council

•Invested in 2004 single desktop license

•2015 considered Essential Software

•Originally used to move data “around”

•Potential for added value was what really

caught my eye

•There is a particular FME language!!

Winter Maintenance Programme:

•11,000 tonnes

•Mid-Oct to End April

•1000km max of road to be gritted/night

•€13k per night per call

•Fleet 25 gritters + TC fleet

•9m3 70km NP road

•Ploughs mounted 5-6 times

•50 rota drivers; 4 trained engineers

•~100 Callouts per season

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Project Initiation Toolkit:

Twitter @RoadsDCC

#gritters

Tweet everynight

Twitter: @RoadsDCC•FME twitter status fetcher #gritters

•Preformatted structured tweet

•Map routes to route centrepoint

•Output as GeoRSS (to use the GeoRSS widget in

Flexviewer)

And then the storms started rolling

in…..

Started looking at weather data…

weather data from yr.no

weather alerts from meteoalarm.eu

DCC Route data

NRA traffic cameras

tweet

Data

•Yr.no is our forecast of choice

forecast provide hourly as xml for 12 or

24 hour period

•Meteoalarm provide County/Region alerts as

RSS

•Traffic Cameras: we license updated images

from Vaisala on routes through the North

•DCC routes, grit dumps, Salt barns

Yr.no

Wind speed/direction, temperature,

pressure, precipitation, summary

Parse out required fields per location, run

through FME workspace to:

format summary

day/night

map it

create hyperlinks

output to geodatabase

FME2015 Update IssueGEODATABASE_FILE_WRITER_MODE = UPDATE

Fme_db_operation = UPDATE in 2014

Can we add value?

Generate Alerts in 12hrs

Meteoalarms: National alerts supplied by MetEireann

ArcMap

Configure the mxd.

Thematic icons for weather, alerts, wind etc…

Timings Task Time

Tweet: #gritters on rte 1,2,3 etc

5 minutes before top of the hour

Twitter Status Fetcher (FME) Top of the hour

Yr.no XML forecast published On the hour every hour

Weather FME 10 past the hour (~5mins)

Alerts FME 20 past hour (~5 mins)

Meteoalram FME 45 mins every 6 hours

Summary

•OpenData can be consumed by Local

Authorities

•FME is one of the most powerful GIS tools

we have

•There are many right ways to translate data

in FME

•Think laterally & Spatially about your

data/GI Software

•Social Media is a GI Dataset

•Enjoy

•Other uses for tourism maps, sport maps

etc….

Next:

•Working with UU Coleraine for coastal

alerts, tides etc Marine Institute;

Magicseaweed.com

•Rainfall radar Met Office UK Datapoint(WMS)

•Other added value: Reports, graphs,

records…..

Aurora Borealis from North Donegal Coastline

Thank you

&

Drive Safely