This week and the next, we will be posting updates to the templates on the Water Utilities Resource Center.  Our focus was to expand the templates to include data, cartography and examples for sewer and storm water.  The next release of the templates will have an expanded and updated data model.  There are now feature dataset for ...

In the upcoming months, we will try to pull out some key pieces from 9.4 and start discussing how the templates will take advantage of the new functionality and how they will affect the water community.  Our first post, we will take a look at ArcGIS Mobile and the Mobile Map Template that was based on this platform.  At 9.3 and 9.3.1, ...

                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 ...

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 topic. First off, for most utilities having a methodology for generating 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 need to have a standard methodology for establishing unique IDs for all of their assets ...

  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 and the questions from the seminar attendees echoed what we have ...