FME and Intergraph GeoMedia Compatibility

Question

What GeoMedia formats does FME support and what versions of GeoMedia are supported?
 

Answer

Available Formats

For the context of this article, FME refers to both FME Desktop and FME Server.

FME supports reading and writing to GeoMedia Access and GeoMedia SQL Server Warehouses.  However, it is important to consider the bit version of FME when writing to GeoMedia Access Warehouses.  FME users (32bit & 64bit) do not need to have any version of GeoMedia installed on their systems to read from and write to compatible versions of GeoMedia SQL Server Warehouses.  FME users (32bit) do not need to have any GeoMedia installed on their systems to read from compatible GeoMedia Access Warehouses.   However, FME uses GeoMedia libraries for writing to GeoMedia Access Warehouses and so GeoMedia, which is 32bit, must be installed on the same system as FME 32bit.  This also means that FME 64bit can not be used to read or write to GeoMedia Access Warehouses.
 

Note that the 32-bit GeoMedia writer has been deprecated with the deprecation of 32-bit FME in 2022.0. If you need to access this writer, please use FME 2021.2 or prior.

• FME 32bit supports both Read & Write to GeoMedia Access and GeoMedia SQL Server Warehouses

• FME 64bit supports Read & Write to GeoMedia SQL Server Warehouses
• FME 64bit cannot read or write to GeoMedia Access Warehouse

• FME 32bit supports both Read from GeoMedia Access Warehouse and GeoMedia SQL Server Warehouses

• FME 64bit supports Read & Write to GeoMedia SQL Server Warehouses
• FME 64bit cannot read or write to GeoMedia Access Warehouse

Version Compatibility

FME support will be available for a GeoMedia version as long as Hexagon considers it still active.

This table provides an overview of GeoMedia versions supported by each FME version:

FME 2019.X is assumed to work with GeoMedia 2018

* - Needs applicable GeoMedia software installed to write to Access Warehouse
1 - Only FME Desktop 32bit works with Access Warehouses