2. Pain Points for Utility and Water
Infrastructure Domains
Utilities:
• Lack of Asset Information Systems
• Lack of Transparency in O&M Work
Water, Wet Infrastructure:
• Worldwide water crises
• Quality of Household Water Treatment and
Storage
• GIS data is not adequate or it is not properly
managed
3. What GIS can offer?
• GIS applications and maps can enable everyone
at the utility domain to interact with a
centralized source of data in the way the best
suits their daily work.
• GIS solutions will fulfill the need for a data
gathering effort to learn as much as possible
about the demographic, health, and water and
sanitation infrastructure status within the
region.
4. What GIS can offer?
• GIS allows for geographic locations to be
connected to relevant information about the
features shown on the map
• GIS solutions will enable the staff to work in
collaborative way, for e.g. group of civil
engineers can discuss, edit and share the
engineering drawing over the web using geo-
conferencing.
5. GIS Products and Solutions
• Proprietary COTS
– ESRI ArcGIS suite of products
– Rolta Geomatica GIS suite
– Integraph Geomedia Suite
• Open Source GIS Products
– Minnesota Map Server
– GeoServer
• OGC Standard Specification for GIS usage
• Geospatial Solutions, web based or standalone
and handheld applications
6. A Case Study: New Barrackpore Municipality,
West Bengal, India
Link to web site: http://nbmonline.org/gis.html
Benefits:
Better Municipal Administration and eGovernance using GIS applications
Better Information management of assets
Transparency in operations and maintenance activities
Easy access to information for citizens of the municipality
7. Mapping and Managing Potable Water
Infrastructure Assets
Link to web site:
http://www.esri.com/news/arcnews/winter0809articles/mapping-and-managing.html
Benefits:
Staff collected GPS points and edited GIS features in real time in the field
With ArcPad, staff can access their GIS data wherever they drive,
and the map moves with them
The process was so efficient that money remained in the budget
to continue the inventory for other areas
After GPS inventory, aboveground features are accurately located
8. EGIS in Wastewater Management
Link to web site:
http://www.esri.com/library/newsletters/waterwrites/water-winter07.pdf#page=6
http://resources.arcgis.com/en/communities/local-government/01n40000000t000000.htm
Benefits:
Key to the enterprise GIS program is the integration of external
data systems, which maximize opportunities to visualize information.
These links are extremely beneficial to effective decision making.
Foundational elements, both data and application development tools,
have priority in managing and implementing enterprise GIS.
The strategic focus of the EGIS staff has been to acquire and
implement the sewer geodatabase,
Orange County’s parcel land base, high-quality aerial orthophotos,
and a GIS Web services software development tool.