Making Friends with Your Public Works Department

Using GISSherry Coatney

Intergraph Corporation

skcoatne@ingr.com

Comparing GIS for Public Works andParcel Management

Traditional GIS, Civil, and AM/FM tools have been used separately for Public Works management Emphasis on CADD in Public Works Emphasis on GIS, relational databases in Parcel Management It has not been easy to share/provide information between

these applications

Comparing GIS for Public Works andParcel Management

Today, enterprise and IT centric geospatial solutions can be deployed Why is this important to your organization? What workflows are affected? How do you move forward?

PUBLICPUBLICWORKSWORKS

PROPERTYPROPERTY APPRAISERAPPRAISER

PLANNINGPLANNINGBUILDINGSBUILDINGS

PARKS & RECPARKS & REC

ECONOMICECONOMICDEVELOPMENTDEVELOPMENT

LICENSESLICENSES

FINANCEFINANCEEMERGENCY EMERGENCY SERVICESSERVICES

POLICEPOLICE

ENVIRONMENTALENVIRONMENTALSERVICESSERVICES

UTILITIESUTILITIES

EnterpriseDatabase

Sharing information around the enterprise

Benefits of Sharing GIS Data for Public WorksOne stop access for Public Works servicesMore efficiencies with current budgetsImproved project decision making with up to date information from all ongoing and planned projectsCollaborative / concurrent engineering is easily managed to avoid conflicts and duplicationsDepartmental control of data is easily maintainedOpen data structures promote maximum usage

Local Government Public Works – Workflows

Data ModelData Model Development Development

OperationsOperations

MaintenanceMaintenance

Public Access /Public Access / Data Data

Distribution Distribution

ProjectProject Management Management

InspectionInspection and Approval and Approval

ConstructionConstruction / Repair / Repair

DesignDesignPlanning &Planning &

Project Project Investigation Investigation

PermittingPermitting

EnterpriseEnterprise Asset Asset

Management Management

CapitalCapital Improvement Improvement

Planning Planning

Asset ManagementEnterpriseEnterprise

Asset Asset Management Management

•Bi-directional Interface between Asset Management System and GIS environment

•Provides for Query, Analysis, Reporting and Asset Management Workflows

ProjectProject Management ManagementReviewing Capital Improvement Projects

•Web based for enterprise usage

•Easily shows active projects

•Provides links to project files

•Review project files in different formats

ProjectProject Management ManagementReviewing Capital Improvement Projects

Planning &Planning & Project Project

Investigation InvestigationPlanning a Road Widening Project

•Efficiently pull information from multiple departments together to plan project – Reduce the cost of planning

•With live data connection technology, use up to date information to ensure valid estimates

Parcels

Streets

Proposed Streets

Buildings

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•Convert area of interest from enterprise spatial database to CADD for Design phase

•Use civil engineering design tools to design new Right of Way

DesignDesignRight of Way Design

MaintenanceMaintenanceMaintaining Water / Wastewater Systems

•Intelligent feature model

•Rules-based digitizing and editing

•Model validation

•Network tracing

MaintenanceMaintenanceIntelligent Feature Model

•Features can be fully attributed for maintenance and tracing purposes

MaintenanceMaintenanceIntelligent Feature Model

•Features are associated – e.g. valve knows which two mains connect

Rules-based Digitizing MaintenanceMaintenance

•User begins the placement of a new Water Main

•User is prompted for a valid point feature to begin a new Water Main…

Rules-based Digitizing MaintenanceMaintenance

•A Fitting point feature is placed

•User places the new Water Main…

Rules-based Digitizing MaintenanceMaintenance

•The new Water Main is placed

•User is prompted to end the Water Main with a second valid point feature…

Rules-based Digitizing MaintenanceMaintenance

…And the new Water Main plus two Fitting point features placement is completed

Validating the model MaintenanceMaintenance

Validation is performed between the Water Mains and the Water Tee fittings…

Validating the model MaintenanceMaintenance

Tee fittings that do not have a valid number of connections with Water Mains are symbolized and placed in a queue for editing

Network tracing MaintenanceMaintenance

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Long Term Transactions MaintenanceMaintenance

Realtime updates

Tables

Data Management Rules

Temporary records

Delayed Updates Offline updates

Temporary Tables

•Industry standard databases should be used for geospatial repositories

•Data is being managed by the database, not the application

Tables

Data Management Rules

•Back door editing is not allowed

•All changes must come through Data Management Rules

•Collaborative engineering is supported

•Changes are protected via locking

•Temporal history is provided

Long Term Transactions MaintenanceMaintenance

Keeping everyone informed Public Access /Public Access / Data Data

Distribution Distribution

Consultant OfficeConsultant Office

Central OfficeCentral Office

District OfficeDistrict OfficeProjectProject

InformationInformation

Public HearingsPublic Hearings

Project Field OfficeProject Field Office

Minneapolis Engineering 2000 ProjectModernization of the City’s Engineering Base Mapping and Design Engineering SystemsMajor Objectives: Improved delivery of capital projects Fully supported Enterprise Spatial Database Full deployment of concurrent engineering Replacement of a legacy CADD system

Minneapolis Project Architecture

EngineeringRepository(Bentley)

Base Map Maintenance(GeoMedia Pro)

ESD(OracleSpatial)

Design Engineering(InRoads)

EngineeringWorkspace(Bentley)

ESDPost /

Extract

Minneapolis Project ArchitectureKey Features Oracle Spatial used for data management GeoMedia Pro for Base Map data maintenance Will support post and extract with Engineering

Environment using transaction management Concurrent Engineering supported through

MicroStation & InRoads software suite Interoperability with ESRI, MicroPaver, Kiva and

other products

Benefits of Integrating GIS and Public WorksOne stop access for Public Works servicesMore efficiencies with current budgetsImproved project decision making with up to date information from all ongoing and planned projectsCollaborative / concurrent engineering is easily managed to avoid conflicts and duplicationsDepartmental control of data is easily maintainedOpen data structures promote maximum usage

Moving forward…

Enterprise enable your workflows Change your desktop tools into workflow

solutions Enable GIS and Civil workflow solutions to talk to

your enterprise systems Embrace industry standards

Moving forward…

Move to “E-Government” Offer your information on the web Lower your computer administrative costs Protect your information

Moving forward…

Get your arms around information, not data Move mountains of data into useful information Manage comprehensive programs, not individual

projects Make better decisions with up to date information

Conclusion

Integrating GIS and public works applications is not only possible, it is practical and

necessary…