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November 5th Webcast exploring the Water Utility Resource Center & Enterprise License Agreements for Water Utilities

You can sign up now for a webcast ESRI will be giving that explores the templates on the Water Utility Resource Center and also how water, wastewater and stormwater utilities can benefit from an ESRI Enterprise License Agreement (ELA). We’ll touch on Read More...

Posted Thursday, October 22, 2009 9:05 AM by hcrothers | 0 Comments

Filed under: Water, Utility, Template, wastewater, stormwater, ESRI, GIS, sewer, asset management, CIP, ArcGIS, Capital Improvement Planning, best practices, webcast

The Evolution of the Water Distribution Capital Improvement Planning Template

As you may have seen, we released the Water Distribution Capital Improvement Planning (CIP) Template a last week. First, we wanted to say a big thank you to all of our users and business partners who helped us to refine the initial geoprocessing models Read More...

Posted Tuesday, October 13, 2009 8:45 AM by hcrothers | 2 Comments

Filed under: Geodatabase, Water, Utility, Geoprocessing, Data, Dataset, wastewater, stormwater, ESRI, GIS, sewer, water distribution, asset management, enterprise asset management, CIP, ArcGIS, Capital Improvement Planning, data model, map, costing tools, long term plan, ModelBuilder, GeoDesign

Where Are Your Customers?

At first glance, that might seem like a silly question to a water, wastewater or storm water utility. After all, how hard is it to find your customers…. they are in your service area, connected to your infrastructure and you have an address to send them Read More...

Posted Tuesday, September 22, 2009 2:00 PM by hcrothers | 2 Comments

Filed under: Geodatabase, Water, wastewater, stormwater, ESRI, GIS, sewer, water distribution, hydraulic model, ArcGIS, data model, map, tracing, geocoding, premise location, water loss, water meter, utility billing system, non-revenue water, CIS, customer information system

Generating Unique Asset IDs for asset discovered in the field

Based on our recent blog on Generating Unique Asset IDs, we had a few people ask about how to handle generating IDs in the field and how to handle new assets turned over from developers. So we thought it would be good write a follow-on blog about that Read More...

Posted Wednesday, August 19, 2009 12:47 PM by hcrothers | 0 Comments

Filed under: Water, ArcGIS Mobile, wastewater, stormwater, ESRI, GIS, sewer, water distribution, asset management, ArcGIS Server, enterprise asset management, work orders, ArcGIS, mobile gis, field crews, map, asset IDs, capital projects

Tips For Capital Project Coordination

It's seems like right now, the idea of capital project coordination between utilities and other government entities has reached critical mass. Whether faced with budgetary problems due to the economy, the need to do a significant amount of capital projects Read More...

Posted Monday, August 10, 2009 1:06 PM by hcrothers | 0 Comments

Filed under: Geodatabase, Water, Utility, wastewater, stormwater, ESRI, GIS, sewer, asset management, ArcGIS Server, ArcGIS, Capital Improvement Planning, map, capital projects, Content Sharing, ArcGIS Online, utility coordination

Methods to Create Unique Asset IDs

We commonly get asked by water, wastewater and stormwater utilities for some tips on how to establish a system for unique asset IDs, so we thought it would helpful to share some insight on this topic. It seems like almost all utilities now recognize the Read More...

Posted Monday, August 03, 2009 8:51 AM by hcrothers | 6 Comments

Filed under: Water, Utility, wastewater, stormwater, ESRI, GIS, sewer, asset management, enterprise asset management, mobile gis, field crews, paper maps, map, asset IDs, unique asset IDs

Expanding the Mobile Map

If you have played around with the configuration file or in the source code for the mobile map, you may have noticed some functions that are not visible in the application. That is because a typical ArcGIS Mobile application has a lot more functionality Read More...

Posted Wednesday, June 17, 2009 7:39 AM by mmiller@esri.com | 0 Comments

Filed under: Template, mobile, ESRI, GIS, ArcGIS, routing, paper, workorder, map, server, inspections, field, tracing, extending

ArcGIS for AutoCAD Template for Water Utilities

There is a new template in the template gallery showing how to use ArcGIS for AutoCAD at a water utility to engageAutoCAD users in GIS data updates. You can download the template here: http://resources.esri.com/waterutilities/index.cfm?fa=codeGalleryDetails&scriptID=16340 Read More...

Posted Tuesday, June 09, 2009 6:07 PM by hcrothers | 0 Comments

Filed under: Geodatabase, Water, Schema, Geoprocessing, wastewater, stormwater, ESRI, GIS, sewer, asset management, ArcGIS Server, enterprise asset management, ArcGIS, data model, AutoCAD, DXF, Microstation, ArcGIS for AutoCAD, DGN, DWG

Updated Source Code for the Water Operations Dashboard

We have updated the Water Operations Dashboard. This version is based on the ArcGIS API for Flex 1.2 libraries and the Sample Flex Viewer that was released on May 29th. The Water Operations Dashboard is based on the Sample Flex Viewer with a few enhancments. Read More...

Posted Wednesday, June 03, 2009 3:47 PM by mmiller@esri.com | 2 Comments

Filed under: Geodatabase, Code, Utility, Template, dashboard, Flex, widget, rest, wastewater, stormwater, ESRI, GIS, sewer, water distribution, update, ArcGIS Server, CIP, ArcGIS

Design concepts and setting up your own dashboard

I started typing this blog entry last week. My original idea was to share 5 simple steps to set up the dashboard or Flex sample viewer. Since then, two great things came up, the creating effective web maps seminar and an unbelievable flex guide from a Read More...

Posted Friday, May 29, 2009 6:54 AM by mmiller@esri.com | 0 Comments

Filed under: Geodatabase, Water, Utility, Template, dashboard, Flex, Data, Dataset, widget, rest, stormwater, ESRI, GIS, sewer, water distribution, update, ArcGIS Server, ArcGIS, data model

User Template Submissions

We've had a few questions about whether users and ESRI business partners can submit templates to the Water Utilities Resource Center. We wanted to tell everyone, the answer is yes! We are encouraging our users and business partners to submit templates Read More...

Posted Tuesday, May 19, 2009 4:36 AM by hcrothers | 0 Comments

Filed under: Geodatabase, Water, Code, Template, Data, wastewater, stormwater, ESRI, GIS, ArcGIS

Moving Away from Paper Field Maps

Yesterday I participated in an all day seminar on Asset Management and GIS at the New Jersey Water Environment Association conference. The seminar had some good presentations on deploying Mobile GIS at water and wastewater utilities. The Mobile GIS presentations Read More...

Posted Tuesday, May 12, 2009 2:49 PM by hcrothers | 1 Comments

Filed under: Water, Utility, ArcGIS Mobile, mobile, wastewater, stormwater, ESRI, GIS, sewer, water distribution, asset management, enterprise asset management, ArcGIS, routing, mobile gis, field books, field crews, paper maps

Dashboard Source

We have had many requests for the source code of the Water Utilities Dashboard. This dashboard is based on the Sample Flex Viewer on the ArcGIS Server Resource Center. From that sample, we have added a few new widgets and enhanced some others. These updates Read More...

Posted Friday, May 08, 2009 6:04 AM by mmiller@esri.com | 0 Comments

Filed under: Geodatabase, Water, Utility, Template, dashboard, Flex, widget, rest, wastewater, ESRI, GIS, water distribution, update, ArcGIS Server, CIP, ArcGIS, Capital Improvement Planning

Getting Started with GIS for Small Utilities

A few days ago I was talking to a manager at a small combined water and wastewater utility who wanted to know with a limited budget, how can they implement GIS and where should they get started? That's a question we often get. No doubt, most large and Read More...

Posted Tuesday, May 05, 2009 6:58 AM by hcrothers | 0 Comments

Filed under: Water, Utility, Schema, wastewater, stormwater, ESRI, GIS, asset management, enterprise asset management, ArcGIS, data model, routing

GIS & Hydraulic Modeling

Our first few blog posts focused on the Water Resource Templates, specifically how to configure them and get the templates to work with your data. Aside from sharing technical information we also created this blog to share observations and stories of Read More...

Posted Monday, April 27, 2009 1:17 PM by hcrothers | 2 Comments

Filed under: Geodatabase, Water, wastewater, ESRI, GIS, sewer, CIP, hydraulic model, ArcGIS, Capital Improvement Planning, all pipe model, skeletonize

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