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Actian Ingres Non-Spatial Reader/Writer Actian Ingres Spatial Reader/Writer
Additional Military Layers (AML) Reader Adobe 3D PDF Writer
Adobe Flash (SWF) Writer Adobe Geospatial PDF Reader/Writer
Adobe Illustrator – Avenza MAPublisher Writer Adobe Illustrator (IEPS) Writer
Adobe Product Representation Compact (PRC) Writer ADRG (ARC Digitized Raster Graphics) Reader
Aircom ENTERPRISE Map Data/ASSET Data Reader/Writer AIXM 4.5 (Aeronautical Information Exchange Model XML version 4.5) Reader/Writer
AIXM 5.x (Aeronautical Information Exchange Model GML) Reader/Writer Amazon Athena Reader (Deprecated) Replaced by the safe.amazon-athena format package.
Amazon Aurora Non-Spatial (MYSQL_AURORA_NONSPATIAL) Reader/Writer Amazon Aurora Spatial (MYSQL_AURORA_SPATIAL) Reader/Writer
Amazon DynamoDB Reader/Writer Amazon Redshift Reader/Writer
Amazon Redshift Spatial Reader/Writer Apache Hive (Hadoop) Reader
Apache Parquet Reader/Writer (Technology Preview) (FME Desktop Package) Apache Parquet Reader/Writer
APT Reader ASPRS LiDAR Data Exchange Format (LAS) Reader/Writer
ASRP (ARC Standard Raster Product) Reader ASTM E57 Reader/Writer
Australian Asset Design and As Constructed (ADAC) Reader/Writer Autodesk 3ds Reader/Writer
Autodesk AutoCAD Civil 3D Reader Autodesk AutoCAD DWF Reader/Writer
Autodesk AutoCAD DWG/DXF Reader/Writer Autodesk AutoCAD Map 3D Object Data Reader/Writer
Autodesk FBX Reader/Writer Autodesk IMX Writer
Autodesk MapGuide (Version 6.5 and older) SDF (replaced by SDF3) Autodesk MapGuide Enterprise SDF Reader/Writer
Autodesk MapGuide SDL Reader/Writer Autodesk ReCap Writer
Autodesk Revit Reader Bathymetric Attributed Grid (BAG) Reader/Writer
BC MOEP Reader/Writer BC MoF Electronic Submission Framework – (XSD-Driven) Reader/Writer
BC MoF Electronic Submission Framework (ESF) Reader/Writer (deprecated) Bentley i-model Interchange Format Reader
Bentley Map XFM Design Reader Bentley MicroStation Design Reader/Writer
BIM Collaboration Format (BCF) Reader/Writer CADRG (Compressed ARC Digitized Raster Graphics) Reader/Writer
Canadian Council on Geomatics Interchange Format (CCOGIF) Reader/Writer Canadian Digital Elevation Data (CDED) Reader/Writer
Caris NTX Reader/Writer CARIS Spatial Archive (CSAR) Point Cloud Reader/Writer
CARIS Spatial Archive (CSAR) Raster Reader/Writer CARTO Reader/Writer
Cesium 3D Point Cloud Reader/Writer Cesium 3D Tiles Writer
CIB (Controlled Image Base) Reader/Writer CITS Data Transfer Format (QLF) Reader/Writer
CityJSON Reader/Writer CKAN DataStore Reader/Writer (FME Desktop Package)
COLLADA (Collaborative Design Activity) Reader/Writer Column-Aligned Text (CAT) Reader
ComGraphix Data Exchange Format (CGDEF) Reader/Writer Continuous Acquisition and Life-Cycle Support (CALS) Reader
CouchDB Reader/Writer CSV (Comma-Separated Value) Reader/Writer
CUZK_GML (Czech Republic) Reader Danish DSFL Reader
Danish UFO Reader/Writer Data File Reader/Writer
dBASE (DBF) Reader/Writer DeLorme GPL (GPS Track Logs) Reader
Denodo Reader DES Reader
DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine) Reader/Writer Digital Line Graph (DLG) Reader
Digital Map Data Format (DMDF) Reader Digital Weather Markup Language (DWML) Reader
Directory and File Pathnames Reader DTED (Digital Terrain Elevation Data) Reader/Writer
Dutch Top10 GML Reader/Writer Dutch Top50NL GML Reader
E00 (Esri ArcInfo Coverage/Esri ArcInfo Export) Reader/Writer EDIGéO Reader
Elastic Elasticsearch Reader/Writer Elastic Elasticsearch (v6.8 and earlier) Reader/Writer (deprecated)
Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) Writer Entwine Point Tile (EPT) Reader
Epic Games Unreal Datasmith (UDATASMITH) Writer ER Mapper ECW Reader/Writer
ER Mapper ERS Reader/Writer ERDAS IMAGINE Reader/Writer
ERDAS RAW Reader/Writer Esri-JSON (Esri JavaScript Object Notation) Reader/Writer
Esri .hdr RAW Raster Reader/Writer Esri ArcGIS Binary Grid (AIG) Reader
Esri ArcGIS Image Server Reader Esri ArcGIS Layer Reader
Esri ArcGIS Map Document Reader Esri ArcGIS Online (AGOL) Feature Service Reader/Writer
Esri ArcGIS Portal Feature Service Reader/Writer Esri ArcGIS Server Feature Service Reader
Esri ArcInfo Generate Reader/Writer Esri ArcPad Exchange Format (AXF) Reader
Esri ASCII Grid Reader/Writer Esri Geodatabase (File Geodb Open API) Reader/Writer
Esri Geodatabase (XML Workspace Document) Reader Esri Geodatabase Formats
Esri Indexed 3D Scene Layer (I3S) Writer Esri Legacy ArcSDE Reader/Writer (This format is deprecated. Please see Esri Legacy ArcSDE (SDE30) Deprecation.)
Esri Mapping Specification for CAD (MSC) Reader/Writer Esri Shapefile Reader/Writer
Extensis MrSID Reader Facet XDR Reader/Writer
FalconView File Reader File Copy Writer
FME Augmented Reality (FME AR) Reader/Writer (deprecated) FME Augmented Reality (FME AR) Writer
FME Feature Store (FFS) Reader/Writer FME Server Automations Writer
FME Workspace Reader Garmin GDB Reader/Writer
Garmin GPI Reader/Writer Garmin MapSource Reader/Writer (deprecated)
Garmin POI Reader/Writer GDAL Generic Raster Reader
Genasys GenaMap Reader General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) Reader/Writer
Generic (Any Format) Reader/Writer GeoConcept Map Reader/Writer
Geographic Data Files (GDF) Reader Geographic Data Management System (GDMS) Reader
Geohash Reader GeoJSON (Geographic JavaScript Object Notation) Reader/Writer
GeoRSS/RSS Feed Reader/Writer GeoTIFF (Georeferenced Tagged Image File Format) Reader/Writer
German AAA GML Exchange Format (NAS) Reader GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) Reader/Writer
GIF Rasterizer Writer glTF (GL Transmission Format) Writer
Golden Software Surfer Binary Grid Reader/Writer Google BigQuery Reader (Deprecated) Replaced by the safe.google-bigquery format package.
Google BigQuery Writer (FME Desktop Package) Google Cloud Spanner Reader/Writer
Google Cloud SQL Non-Spatial (MYSQL_GOOGLE_DB) Reader/Writer Google Cloud SQL Spatial (MYSQL_GOOGLE) Reader/Writer
Google Fusion Tables (Non-Spatial) Reader/Writer (Service Ended December 3, 2019) Google Fusion Tables (Spatial) Reader/Writer (Service Ended December 3, 2019)
Google Sheets Reader/Writer (Scheduled Deprecation on June 8, 2021) Google Sheets v4 Reader/Writer (FME Desktop Package)
Google WebP Reader/Writer GPS eXchange Format (GPX) Reader/Writer
Graphic Technologies, Inc. (GTI) GTViewer Reader/Writer Halliburton GeoGraphix CDF Reader/Writer
HEIF (High Efficiency Image File Format) Reader HERE Venue Map (GML) Reader/Writer
Hierarchical Data Format 4 (HDF4 ASTER) Reader Hierarchical Data Format 4 (HDF4 Hyperion) Reader
HTML Table Reader HTML Writer
HYPACK Border Reader/Writer IBM Cloudant Reader/Writer
IBM DB2/Db2 Warehouse on Cloud Non-Spatial Reader/Writer IBM DB2/Db2 Warehouse on Cloud Spatial Reader/Writer
IBM DB2 Non-Spatial (JDBC) Reader/Writer IBM Informix Non-Spatial (JDBC) Reader/Writer
IBM Informix Non-Spatial Reader/Writer IBM Informix Spatial Reader/Writer
IBM Netezza Spatial and Non-Spatial Reader/Writer IBM PASW (SPSS) .sav Reader/Writer
IDRISI Raster Reader/Writer IDRISI Vector Format Reader/Writer
IFC with Data Views Reader Indoor Mapping Data Format (IMDF) Reader/Writer
Industry Foundation Class STEP/XML Files (IFC) Reader/Writer InSAR Scientific Computing Environment (ISCE) Reader/Writer
INSPIRE GML Reader/Writer Intergraph FRAMME Standard Exchange Format (SEF) Writer
Intergraph GeoMedia Access and SQL Server Warehouse Reader/Writer Intergraph MGE Reader/Writer
Intergraph Raster Reader/Writer ISO 8211 Reader
ITT ENVI .hdr Raw Raster Reader/Writer JDBC (Java Database Connectivity) Reader/Writer
JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) Reader/Writer JPEG 2000 (GeoJP2/GMLJP2) Reader/Writer
JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) Reader/Writer KommunGML (Sweden) Reader
KuntaGML (Finland) Reader Land Victoria Incremental Update Format (IUF) Reader
Landmark Z-Map Grid Reader/Writer Landmark Z-Map Vector Reader/Writer
Landmark Zycor Graphics File (ZGF) Reader Landonline (Land Information New Zealand Cadastre Survey Data Exchange Format) Reader
Landsat-8 on AWS Reader Landsat-8 Reader
LandXML Reader/Writer LDAP/Active Directory Reader (Technology Preview)
Leica Independent Data Exchange Format (IDEX) Reader/Writer MapBox MBTiles Reader/Writer
MapBox MBTiles Vector Tiles (MVT) Reader/Writer Mapbox Vector Tile (MVT) and MVT Tileset Reader/Writer
MapInfo Extended TAB Reader/Writer MapInfo MIF/MID Reader/Writer
MapInfo SpatialWare Reader/Writer MapInfo TAB (EFAL) Reader/Writer (Technology Preview)
MapInfo TAB (MAPINFO/MITAB) Reader/Writer MapInfo Vertical Mapper Grid (NGrid) Reader/Writer
Maptech BSB Nautical Chart Reader Marconi PlaNet Reader/Writer
MariaDB (MySQL-compatible) Non-Spatial Reader/Writer MariaDB (MySQL-compatible) Spatial Reader/Writer
Meta Raster Format (MRF) Reader/Writer Metria AutoKa Transfer File (FF) Reader/Writer
Microsoft Access (JDBC) Reader/Writer Microsoft Access Reader/Writer
Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB (DocumentDB) Reader/Writer Microsoft Azure SQL Database Non-Spatial (JDBC) Reader/Writer
Microsoft Azure SQL Database Spatial (JDBC) Reader/Writer Microsoft Azure Storage Table Reader/Writer
Microsoft Bitmap (BMP) Reader/Writer Microsoft DirectDraw Surface (DDS) Reader/Writer
Microsoft DirectX Reader/Writer Microsoft Excel Reader (XLSXR) and Writer (XLSXW)
Microsoft MapPoint Web XML Reader/Writer Microsoft OGDI DataLab Reader/Writer
Microsoft PowerPoint Writer Microsoft SharePoint List Reader/Writer
Microsoft SQL Server and Azure SQL Database (MSSQL_SPATIAL) Spatial Reader/Writer Microsoft SQL Server and Azure SQL Database Non-Spatial (JDBC) Reader/Writer (Deprecated in FME 2020.0+)
Microsoft SQL Server and Azure SQL Database Non-Spatial (MSSQL_ADO) Reader/Writer Microsoft SQL Server and Azure SQL Database Spatial (JDBC) Reader/Writer (Deprecated in FME 2020.0+)
Microsoft SQL Server Non-Spatial (JDBC) Reader/Writer Microsoft SQL Server Spatial (JDBC) Reader/Writer
Microsoft Word Writer Mojang Minecraft Reader/Writer
MongoDB Reader/Writer (Deprecated) MongoDB3 Reader/Writer
Multi-Reader Multi-Writer
National Imagery Transmission Format (NITF) Reader/Writer NEN 3610 (GML) Reader
NetCDF (Network Common Data Form) Reader/Writer NGA GEOnet Names Server (GNS) Reader
NGDC Hydrographic Surveys Data Exchange (HYD93) Reader/Writer NIfTI (Neuroimaging Informatics Technology Initiative) Reader/Writer
NLSF Topographic GML (MTKGML) Reader NMEA 0183 Reader
NMEA AIS – Marine Navigation Data Reader Northgate StruMap Reader/Writer
Northrop Grumman C2PC Magic (MGC) Reader NULL (Nothing) Reader/Writer
OBJ Reader/Writer OData Reader
ODBC 3.x Reader/Writer OGC API – Features (WFS 3.0) Reader
OGC CityGML Reader/Writer OGC GeoPackage Reader/Writer (Deprecated)
OGC GeoPackage Reader/Writer OGC GeoPackage Tiles Reader/Writer
OGC GML (Geography Markup Language) Reader/Writer OGC GML SF-0 (Geography Markup Language Simple Features Level SF-0 Profile) Reader/Writer
OGC GML v2.1.2 (Geography Markup Language) Reader/Writer OGC IndoorGML Reader/Writer
OGC Open GeoSMS Reader OGC WCS (Web Coverage Service) Reader
OGC Well Known Binary (WKB) Reader OGC Well Known Text (WKT) Reader
OGC WFS (Web Feature Service) Reader OGC WMS (Web Map Service) Reader
OGC WMTS (Web Map Tile Service) Reader OGC/Google KML Reader/Writer
OGP P1/90 Post Plot Positioning Data Reader/Writer OpenSceneGraph (OSGB/OSGT) Reader/Writer
OpenStreetMap (OSM) Protocolbuffer Binary Format (PBF) Reader OpenStreetMap (OSM) XML Reader/Writer
Oracle Autonomous Non-Spatial Reader/Writer Oracle Autonomous Spatial Object Reader/Writer
Oracle Non-Spatial Reader/Writer Oracle Spatial GeoRaster Reader/Writer
Oracle Spatial Object Reader/Writer Oracle Spatial Point Cloud Reader/Writer
Oracle Spatial Relational Reader/Writer Oracle SQL Loader Writer
OS (GB) NTF Reader Panorama Storage and eXchange Format (SXF) Reader
PCD (Point Cloud Data) Reader/Writer PCI Geomatics Database File (PCIDSK) Reader/Writer
PenMetrics GRD Reader/Writer PHOCUS PHODAT Reader/Writer
Pitney Bowes Multi-Resolution Raster (MRR) Reader Pixar USD (Universal Scene Description) Writer
Planet Data Reader PNG (Portable Network Graphics) Reader/Writer
PNG Rasterizer Writer Point Cloud XYZ (POINTCLOUDXYZ) Reader/Writer
Pointools POD Reader/Writer PostGIS (Raster) Reader/Writer
PostGIS Reader/Writer PostgreSQL Reader/Writer
Presagis .flt (OPENFLIGHT) Reader/Writer Qubicle Binary Voxel File (QB) Reader (Tech Preview)
Qlik JSON Reader QVX (QlikView Data Exchange) Writer
R Statistical Data (RData) Array as Raster Reader/Writer R Statistical Data (RData) Non-Spatial Reader/Writer
R Statistical Raster Data (RRASTER) .grd Reader/Writer RADARSAT-2 XML Raster Reader
Regional Geographic Information System (REGIS) Reader/Writer RIEGL Laser Scan Database (RDB) Reader
RIEGL RDB Project Reader S-57 (ENC) Hydrographic Data Reader
Salesforce Reader/Writer SAP HANA and Cloud Platform HANA Service Non-Spatial Reader/Writer
SAP HANA and Cloud Platform HANA Service Spatial Reader/Writer SAP Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) Reader/Writer
SAS (Statistical Analysis System) Reader/Writer Schema (Any Format) Reader
Schema (From Table) Reader SeabedML (GML) Reader/Writer
SEG-P1 File Reader SEG-Y Reader/Writer
Sentinel-2 MSI SAFE Raster Reader Sentinel-2 on AWS Reader
Sentinel-1 SAR SAFE Raster Reader SGI Image Reader/Writer
Smallworld 3 Reader/Writer Smallworld 4 Reader/Writer
Snowflake Non-Spatial Reader/Writer Snowflake Spatial Reader/Writer
Socrata DataSync Writer (deprecated) Socrata2 Reader/Writer (FME Desktop Package)
SOSI GML Reader/Writer Space-Delimited XYZ Reader
Spatial Archive and Interchange Format (SAIF) Reader Spatial Data Transfer Standard (SDTS) Reader
SpatiaLite Reader/Writer SQLite 3 Spatial (FDO) Reader/Writer
SQLite Non-Spatial Reader/Writer SRTM HGT (Shuttle Radar Topography Mission Height) Reader
Standard Linear Format (SLF) Reader STAR-APIC Mercator MCF Reader/Writer
STL (Standard Triangle/Tessellation Language) Reader/Writer Summary Report Writer
Sun Raster Reader/Writer SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) Writer
Swedish I2K/G2K (Interface 2000 GML) Reader/Writer Swedish KF85 Reader/Writer
Swedish Masik Reader/Writer Swiss INTERLIS (ili2fme) Reader/Writer
Tableau Data Extract (TDE) Writer Tableau Hyper Writer (Technology Preview)
Tele Atlas MultiNet Interchange Format Reader Teradata Non-Spatial Reader/Writer
Teradata Spatial Reader/Writer Terrain Tiles on AWS Reader
Terrain Tiles on AWS Reader Terrasolid TerraScan Reader/Writer
TetGen Reader/Writer Text Feature Store (TFS) Fixed Schema Reader/Writer
Text Feature Store (TFS) Variable Schema Reader/Writer Text File Reader/Writer
TIFF (Tagged Image File Format) Reader/Writer TOBIN TDRBM II Data Distribution Format Writer (deprecated in FME 2021+)
TomTom POI Reader/Writer TopoJSON (Topology JavaScript Object Notation) Reader/Writer
Trimble SketchUp Reader/Writer U.S. Census Bureau TIGER/GML Reader
U.S. Census Bureau TIGER/Line Reader U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Geospatial Data Reader
U.S. Geological Survey Digital Elevation Model (USGSDEM) Reader/Writer UK OS MasterMap Greenspace Layer (GML) Reader/Writer
UK OS MasterMap Highways Network (GML) Reader/Writer UK OS MasterMap Sites Layer (GML) Reader/Writer
UK OS MasterMap Topography Layer (GML) Reader/Writer UK OS MasterMap Topography Layer (Non-XSD-Driven, GML v2.1.2) Reader
UK OS MasterMap Water Network (GML) Reader/Writer UK OS VectorMap District Reader
UK OS VectorMap Local Reader Vector Markup Language (VML) Writer
Vector Product Format (VPF) Coverage and Database Reader/Writer VOIV (VoxelGeo OpenInventor) Writer
VRT (OGR Virtual Format) Reader VRT (OGR Virtual Format) Reader
VRT Raster (GDAL Virtual Format) Reader Well Logging Ascii Standard Format (WLAS) Reader
World Meteorological Organization GRIB (GRIdded Binary) Reader X3D Writer and VRML Reader/Writer
X11 Pixmap (XPM) Reader/Writer XDK (XML Format for Danish DSFL) Reader
XML (Extensible Markup Language) Reader/Writer XSD-Driven XML Reader/Writer
Z+F LaserControl ZFS Reader