Case Study: Williamson County quickly prepares and contributes GIS data to the Esri Community Maps Program with Safe Software's FME-powered Esri Data Interoperability Extension

Williamson County - Customer Case Study

Williamson County, a fast-growing county in Texas, wanted to contribute its GIS data to the Esri Community Maps Program to make authoritative maps and datasets more widely available to local agencies and the public. The county already had data in a multiuser SDE Geodatabase but faced the challenge of converting it to the program’s required data model, ArcGIS Online Basemap Geodatabase format with the Bing/Google tiling scheme, and the NAD_1983 coordinate system.

Using the Esri Data Interoperability Extension powered by FME technology, the GIS team used an intuitive graphical interface and pre-built transformers to convert, reproject, and package their address points, road ranges, and building footprints without writing code. The work produced self-documenting workflows, avoided intermediate datasets, and quickly made the county’s data available in the Esri Community Maps World Topographic Map; the same tools are now used to prepare data for emergency dispatch and other county needs.

Williamson County

Shilpa Bhadsalve

GIS Analyst