FME GIS Consulting - Automating your Workflows

By: Tim Voss, Co-Founder of GeoJango

From downtown development projects to regional transportation upgrades, the San Francisco Bay Area generates massive amounts of project data—CAD drawings, GIS layers, inspection reports, spreadsheets, and sensor feeds.

For many organizations, transforming this information into clean, usable datasets takes too much time, too many manual steps, and introduces too many errors.

At GeoJango, we use Safe Software’s FME (Feature Manipulation Engine) to automate and streamline these workflows—saving your team hours (or even days) of effort while improving accuracy and delivering results in real time.

FME is the world’s leading spatial ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) platform—designed to integrate, transform, and automate data between over 300 formats, from CAD and GIS to spreadsheets, databases, APIs, and sensor feeds.

It’s the tool of choice for organizations that need:

• Automated reporting for compliance, monitoring, and documentation.
• CAD-to-GIS conversion for project planning and asset management.
• Data cleaning and validation at scale.
• Real-time dashboards that pull data from multiple sources.
• Feature layer creation for interactive mapping.
  
  

GeoJango holds a professional license for this powerful software, giving our clients advanced capabilities.

Challenge: Firms often juggle CAD or BIM files from multiple disciplines, converting them into GIS for permitting, environmental review, or public maps. Doing this manually wastes time and risks losing important attributes.

Our FME-Powered Solution:

• Convert CAD and BIM models into GIS-ready datasets automatically—preserving layers, attributes, and symbology.

• Process multiple project files in batch, saving hours of repetitive work.

• Feed updated project data into client dashboards for progress tracking and public transparency.
  
  

Results: Faster turnaround, fewer errors, and better integration with client and municipal systems.

Challenge: Municipalities often manage siloed datasets—zoning, permits, asset inventories—that must be updated regularly and shared both internally and with the public. Without automation, these updates are slow and resource-intensive.

Our FME-Powered Solution:

• Automate updates to public works, zoning, and permit maps.

• Integrate field inspection data into asset management systems.

• Generate compliance and environmental reports on a schedule or trigger.

• Keep public-facing dashboards accurate with real-time feeds.
  
  

Results: Improved service delivery, greater transparency, and reduced workload for GIS and IT staff.

Challenge: Integrating as-built data, inspection records, and drone imagery into usable GIS or project systems is often a patchwork process—delaying reporting and decision-making.

Our FME-Powered Solution:

• Merge drone survey outputs with engineering design files.

• Convert field inspection forms into map-ready layers.

• Generate automated safety and milestone reports for clients and regulators.

• Build real-time dashboards for multi-site project oversight.
  
  

Results: Faster project updates, streamlined compliance, and improved coordination among teams.

• Automated Report Generation – Compliance, environmental, and operational reports on-demand or on a schedule.

• CAD-to-GIS Conversion & BIM Integration – Create GIS datasets from design files with full attribute retention.

• Data Transformation – Convert between any supported formats while cleaning and validating data.

• Dashboard Feeds – Real-time integration with ArcGIS Dashboards, Power BI, and other visualization platforms.

• Sensor & Data Feed Integration – Pull data from IoT devices, APIs, and external databases into one system.

• Feature Layer Creation – Produce curated GIS layers for enterprise and public use.

• Facility Management and Asset Management

• Local Expertise – Based in Pleasanton, CA, serving Bay Area and nationwide clients.

• Proven Experience – Decades in GIS, remote sensing, and enterprise data integration for engineering, government, and infrastructure projects.

• Licensed FME Users – Access advanced FME automation.

• Project Efficiency – Reduce manual effort, improve accuracy, and accelerate project delivery.

If your team is spending too much time on repetitive data tasks, we can help.

We’ll assess your current process, identify automation opportunities, and create custom FME workflows that save time, cut costs, and improve data quality.

Contact us today to schedule a consultation or proof-of-concept project.
📍 Serving the San Francisco Bay Area and clients across the USA.

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