FME Idol Challenge
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The FME User Conference in 2006 had an FME Idol contest to discover the ultimate FME user.
The Challenges
The contest had the option of one of two challenges.
Feel free to download the attached datasets and try the challenges for yourself. Maybe you will find yourself competing in next year's competition!
Challenge 1
Most conferences have a paper map for attendees to pin-point their home cities.
But not us! We aim a little higher! The challenge is to create us an interesting dataset relating to the conference attendees.
For example…
- A map showing the number of visitors from each country
- A table showing the longest journey distance
- The answer to whether any of our visitors come from twinned cities?
Do whatever you can think of – use your imagination! And FME of course.
Challenge 2
A hidden message has been encoded within a set of data (an example of Steganography (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography)). Decode the message and show where in the world it is located.
Contestants
The contestants were hand-picked from our select list of FME MVPs.
Challenge 1 was undertaken by SRG and Hans van der Maarel.
Challenge 2 was undertaken by Peter Laulund and Jason Birch.
Datasets
The datasets for Challenge 1 and Challenge 2 are attached.
Results
Seems that Challenge 2 was the easier one! - Jason finished the task first, whilst Peter followed shortly after.
Want to know the secret message behind Challenge 2? Check out the Challenge 2 results page.
For Challenge 1, Hans and SRG both made valiant attempts and both succeeded in correctly geo-coding the attendee list and converting to Google Earth.
Want to see some of the results from Challenge 1? Check out the Challenge 1 results page.
