Australian Asset Design and As Constructed (ADAC) Reader/Writer

FME can access data in the ADAC XML format.

The ADAC XML format is developed by the Asset Design and As Constructed (ADAC) consortium. This reader/writer supports the following ADAC XML versions:

  • 3.0.1
  • 4.0.0
  • 4.1.0
  • 4.2.0
  • 5.0.0
  • 5.0.1
  • 6.0.0

For more information about ADAC, see the website Asset Design and As Constructed Xml - ADAC XML.

Australian Asset Design and As Constructed (ADAC) Product and System Requirements

Format

Product

Operating System

Reader/Writer

FME Form

FME Flow

FME Flow Hosted

Windows 64-bit

Linux

Mac

Reader

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Writer

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Overview

An ADAC XML document consists of a root ADAC element containing various data structures from civil engineering assets.

ADAC v3 defines the following asset themes:

ADAC v3
Sewerage
Roads
Water
Stormwater
Cadastre

For backwards compatibility, the interpretation/mapping of the ADAC v3 assets remains unchanged.

ADAC v4 and v5 define the following asset themes:

ADAC v4 and v5
Sewerage
Transport

WaterSupply

StormWater
OpenSpace
Cadastre
Surface
Enhancements
Supplementary

ADAC v6 retains the asset themes from v5 and introduces the following:

ADAC v6
Communication
Electrical

Reader Overview

The ADAC reader creates FME features from the various ADAC asset structures.

The asset structures in v4, v5, and v6 are mapped differently from ADAC v3.

See Feature Representation for details.

Coordinate Systems

FME ADAC features are tagged with a coordinate system when the reader finds a mapping between the name specified in the ADAC <HorizontalCoordinateSystem> element and an FME coordinate system name.

The ADAC <HorizontalCoordinateSystem> is a child of the <CoordinateSystem> element which is a child of the ADAC <Project> element.

Writer Overview

The ADAC writer generates ADAC v4, v5, and v6 XML files. The writer has fixed feature types, which are the same as the schema used by the ADAC reader.  

See Feature Representation for details on the writer feature type format attributes.