Making Friends with Your Public Works Department Using GIS Sherry Coatney Intergraph Corporation

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

Comparing GIS for Public Works and Parcel Management Today, enterprise and IT centric geospatial solutions can be deployed u Why is this important to your organization? u What workflows are affected? u How do you move forward?

PUBLICWORKS PROPERTY PROPERTY APPRAISER APPRAISER PLANNING BUILDINGS PARKS & REC ECONOMICDEVELOPMENT LICENSES FINANCE EMERGENCYSERVICES POLICE ENVIRONMENTALSERVICES UTILITIES Enterprise Database Sharing information around the enterprise

Benefits of Sharing GIS Data for Public Works One stop access for Public Works services More efficiencies with current budgets Improved project decision making with up to date information from all ongoing and planned projects Collaborative / concurrent engineering is easily managed to avoid conflicts and duplications Departmental control of data is easily maintained Open data structures promote maximum usage

Local Government Public Works – Workflows Data Model Development Operations Maintenance Public Access / Data Distribution Project Management Inspection and Approval Construction / Repair Design Planning & Project Investigation Permitting Enterprise Asset Management Capital Improvement Planning

Asset Management Enterprise Asset Management Bi-directional Interface between Asset Management System and GIS environment Provides for Query, Analysis, Reporting and Asset Management Workflows

Project Management Reviewing Capital Improvement Projects Web based for enterprise usage Easily shows active projects Provides links to project files

Review project files in different formats Project Management Reviewing Capital Improvement Projects

Planning & Project Investigation Planning 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 Data Servers

Convert area of interest from enterprise spatial database to CADD for Design phase Use civil engineering design tools to design new Right of Way Design Right of Way Design

Maintenance Maintaining Water / Wastewater Systems Intelligent feature model Rules-based digitizing and editing Model validation Network tracing

Maintenance Intelligent Feature Model Features can be fully attributed for maintenance and tracing purposes

Maintenance Intelligent Feature Model Features are associated – e.g. valve knows which two mains connect

Rules-based Digitizing Maintenance 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 Maintenance A Fitting point feature is placed User places the new Water Main…

Rules-based Digitizing Maintenance The new Water Main is placed User is prompted to end the Water Main with a second valid point feature…

Rules-based Digitizing Maintenance …And the new Water Main plus two Fitting point features placement is completed

Validating the model Maintenance Validation is performed between the Water Mains and the Water Tee fittings…

Validating the model Maintenance 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 Maintenance

Long Term Transactions Maintenance 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 Maintenance

Keeping everyone informed Public Access / Data Distribution Consultant Office Central Office District Office ProjectInformation Public Hearings Project Field Office

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

Minneapolis Project Architecture Engineering Repository (Bentley) Engineering Repository (Bentley) Base Map Maintenance (GeoMedia Pro) Base Map Maintenance (GeoMedia Pro) ESD (Oracle Spatial) ESD (Oracle Spatial) Design Engineering (InRoads) Design Engineering (InRoads) Engineering Workspace (Bentley) Engineering Workspace (Bentley) ESD Post / Extract ESD Post / Extract

Minneapolis Project Architecture Key Features u Oracle Spatial used for data management u GeoMedia Pro for Base Map data maintenance u Will support post and extract with Engineering Environment using transaction management u Concurrent Engineering supported through MicroStation & InRoads software suite u Interoperability with ESRI, MicroPaver, Kiva and other products

Benefits of Integrating GIS and Public Works One stop access for Public Works services More efficiencies with current budgets Improved project decision making with up to date information from all ongoing and planned projects Collaborative / concurrent engineering is easily managed to avoid conflicts and duplications Departmental control of data is easily maintained Open data structures promote maximum usage

Moving forward… Enterprise enable your workflows u Change your desktop tools into workflow solutions u Enable GIS and Civil workflow solutions to talk to your enterprise systems u Embrace industry standards

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

Moving forward… Get your arms around information, not data u Move mountains of data into useful information u Manage comprehensive programs, not individual projects u Make better decisions with up to date information

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