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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

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

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

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
Attachment(s): GUID.cal

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

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

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

User Conference follow up and your thoughts on the Templates

If you had the chance to attend the user conference, I am sure you are excited about some of the new functions you saw in 9.4. I know I am. I cannot wait for the new editing environment. To be able to set up editing templates that default attributes, Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 22, 2009 6:45 AM by mmiller@esri.com | 0 Comments

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

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

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

Changing the Look of the Water Operations Dashboard

So you like the dashboard, but you want it to look different, maybe give it that home town feel. Changing the icons and title is easier than you think. All you need to do is update a few xml files. Start with the Config.xml file in the root of the Flex Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 31, 2009 12:37 PM by ArcGISTeamWater | 0 Comments

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