The main differences between fdo2fdo and ogr2ogr appear to be that fdo2fdo allows for stronger schema remappings, while ogr2ogr supports reprojection and requires less setup effort for each transfer (no XML).

http://www.gdal.org/ogr/ogr2ogr.html

Although at a base level FME can be used for simple data transfer, this isn’t where its real value is. Here are some things that FME is exceptionally great at:

- ease of use
- full transformative capabilities
- fine-grained control over input and output schemas (fdo2fdo is all abstracted)
- excellent self-documenting features
- raster support

I personally can only see using fdo2fdo for the most simple of my requirements. FME is still my main engine for spatial ETL and will continue as such into the future.

Jason

I am not familiar with FDO at all. Reading some of the links on this post, it seemed to me that it might have similarities to FME. Do you have any comments on similarities/differences between FDO and FME?

Regards,

Alfred