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Geometric networks for water utilities

Whether you are implementing GIS in your water, wastewater or stormwater utility and creating a data model for the first time or you are updating your existing GIS datamodel, you will no doubt ask yourself this question - How should I model my utility's Read More...

Posted Tuesday, November 17, 2009 11:48 AM by mmiller@esri.com | 0 Comments

Filed under: Geodatabase, Water, Utility, Data, Dataset, wastewater, stormwater, ESRI, sewer, water distribution, asset management, ArcGIS Server, enterprise asset management, ArcGIS, data model, all pipe model, tracing, asset IDs, GeoDesign, enterprise GIS, geometric network, geometric

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

CIP Template Released

If you have been following us on twitter, you already know that we released the ArcGIS Water Distribution Capital Planning template (we are calling this the CIP Template for short) yesterday. The CIP template includes a set of models to help you understand Read More...

Posted Wednesday, October 07, 2009 7:37 AM by mmiller@esri.com | 0 Comments

Filed under: Geodatabase, Utility, Template, toolbar, Data, wastewater, stormwater, sewer, water distribution, update, enterprise asset management, CIP, ArcGIS, Capital Improvement Planning, data model, capital projects, costing tools

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

Interfacing the mobile map with other systems

Many of you have had a chance to test out the Mobile template and provided great feedback. One question that keeps coming up is “How do I interface (or integrate) the mobile map with my other utility systems?” Typically, when we get asked this question, Read More...

Posted Friday, September 18, 2009 6:42 AM by mmiller@esri.com | 0 Comments

Filed under: Geodatabase, Water, Utility, Template, Data, ArcGIS Mobile, mobile, wastewater, stormwater, ESRI, sewer, water distribution, ArcGIS Server, enterprise asset management, work orders, data model, mobile gis, field books, field crews, paper maps, paper, workorder, map, server, inspections, field, extending, asset IDs, utility coordination, ESB, Enterprise Service Bus

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

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

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

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

Building and Maintaining Water Utility Geodatabases - Part 3

Copy and Paste You probably want to bring in some of your datasets and merge them with the projected schema. Copy and paste is the easiest way to do this, but you may get some error messages about differences in the source/target spatial reference. For Read More...

Posted Monday, March 09, 2009 12:15 PM by ArcGISTeamWater | 0 Comments

Filed under: Geodatabase, Water, Utility, Template, Schema, Loading, Geoprocessing, Data, Dataset, wastewater, ESRI, GIS, sewer, water distribution

Attachment(s): DataTools.zip

Building and Maintaining Water Utility Geodatabases - Part 1

Part 1: Explanation of the Sample and Template GDB The Water Utility Templates provide sample datasets and also a template Geodatabase for your use. There are 4 main parts to the Template Geodatabase: ReferenceData – Landbase data typically acquired from Read More...

Posted Friday, March 06, 2009 12:41 PM by ArcGISTeamWater | 0 Comments

Filed under: Geodatabase, Template, Schema, Data, Dataset

Building and Maintaining Water Utility Geodatabases

We’ll be focusing our next few blog posts on building and maintaining water utility geodatabases. Since we went live with the Water Utility Resource Center 2 weeks ago, we’ve already had numerous questions from the user community about how to use your Read More...

Posted Friday, March 06, 2009 12:38 PM by ArcGISTeamWater | 0 Comments

Filed under: Geodatabase, Loading, Geoprocessing, Data

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