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Roger Wright wrote:
full of unused fields, duplicates, and unnecessary data


I've worked with a dozen or so elec utilities, EVERY one had the same issues, as well as unfilled fields - which can be the most frustrating.

Roger Wright wrote:
The more important task is probably to clean up the mess in the GIS schema


Another common phrase heard at utilities everyware. Smile | :)

Roger Wright wrote:
should probably be treated as a super-inventory


I view the GIS as the asset management system vs the inventory management system you're developing.

The main problem i've seen with IT systems developed in utilities is one that is forced on management. Usually the initial project is funded by capital funds and can be as big as needed, but after that any further work is funded by the yearly O&M budget which is much smaller. As a result they try to cram everything they can think of in the initial phase. Unfortunately after a year or so, upon reflection, it is obvious that a lot of things could have been done better, but now there are stuck with a bad design that they have to work around for the next 5yrs - at which point they replace the GIS again Smile | :) ... and so the cycle continues.

Roger Wright wrote:
standard drawings in AutoCAD format


Also fairly common. As you mentioned it should be fairly easy to link these to a db. What you really want to go for though is having a design interface in the GIS that allows your engineers to place prelim plant and be able to query the standard drawings. This GIS interface would also give the eng the ability to select (by region or piece) the prelim plant and generate a BOM. What i'm trying to point out is that the acad-db combo is just a data source, it's useless on its own, you still need to design/develop the interface to it in a GIS design module. This design interface will likely be (should be) different than that used by the digitizers to place designed plant.

What GIS are you using (ArcInfo, Smallworld, AutoMap, Intergraph, ...) ?

If you have any questions, or want to bounce some ideas around feel free to post them or email me, i find all this stuff fascinating (well i guess i should, it's my job as well Smile | :) ).


...cmk

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