Since our last post in December we made some very good progress on normalizing all of the data. Learning how to use Safe Software’s FME Workbench was our first challenge. Dealing with such large amounts of data was the larger challenge. After successfully transforming and importing most of Washington’s parcel data, we ran into a few hardware obstacles. Luckily, after a few weeks of product investigation and ordering, we have two new servers just a few days away from being ready to re-import all of the data into. The bright side of this unforeseen delay is that we were able to go back to our original transformation methods and rework some of the steps and troubleshoot some of the bugs. Stay tuned for more updates soon!