Press Release - August 1
2005
For the last 15 years, the Portland region of Wannon Water
(formerly Portland Coast Water) maintained a map representation
of their assets using their CAD system. These CAD drawings
have played a vital role depicting the location of customers
and assets. Hardcopy maps have been regularly printed to provide
engineering plans for works operations and to assist front-counter
staff respond to customer enquiries.
Wannon Water recently recognised that they needed to urgently
move this CAD data into their MapInfo GIS to enable better
spatial reporting as well as linkages with their asset management
system.
Spatial Vision has been contracted to migrate the CAD data,
extracting attributes such as pipe diameter and material type
during the process. In addition, the migration process will
establish links to the existing asset management application.
A key part of the project has been the design of a data model
satisfying both the requirements of the GIS and asset databases.
Spatial Vision’s services included designing this data
model and undertaken a pilot data conversion exercise to verify
the costs for the production migration. The outputs from the
pilot project have also been used to demonstrate the benefits
of establishing true GIS ‘topological’ data.
For further information contact:
Graeme Martin
Ph: (03) 9691 3000
email info@spatialvision.com.au
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