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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

GUID's as ID's

We have had a lot of talk about Unique ID’s in the last few weeks and GUID’s have came up a few times. We wanted to add some more information to this topic. GUID’s or Globally Unique Identifier are essentially unique values. These are used by the geodatabase Read More...

Posted Monday, September 28, 2009 9:39 AM by mmiller@esri.com | 0 Comments

Filed under: Water, Utility, wastewater, water distribution, asset management, ArcGIS, asset IDs, unique asset IDs, GUID

Attachment(s): GUID.cal

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

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

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

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