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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

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

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

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