The “NUTS & BOLTS” of

Building A Sewer & Water GIS

Presented by: John R. Woodard, MS GIS Specialist

Chagrin Valley Engineering, Ltd.www.cvelimited.com

People

Software

Data

Procedures

Hardware

from ESRI

CostDesignInformationSupport

FACTORS TO CONSIDER

What is the expected “Return on Investment (ROI)?”

Data/Information

Manpower/Labor

Software

Hardware

GIS NUTS & BOLTS $$$$$$$$$$$$

◦Source◦Accuracy◦Cost

DATA/INFORMATION

THE PEOPLE

Who will be in charge?Who will use it?Who will update it?Who will collect, input, or access the data?

Infrastructure◦Hardware◦Software

Maintenance◦Personnel ◦Upgrades

Where will the system reside?

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

◦Who will use it?◦How will it be used?◦What is the purpose?◦Custom or Out-of-the-box system (or hybrid)

◦Future expectations (expandability)

SYSTEM DESIGN

The City of Strongsville decided to develop a sewer and water GIS system. This system will then be expanded and shared with all city departments.

Chagrin Valley Engineering, Ltd (CVE) was awarded the contract to design, build, and install, the GIS system.

Strongsville

Where will we get the information for the sewer & water systems?◦ Plan sheets that are kept in a digital image library.

The library was created using a program named Laserfiche.◦ Good system for retrieving and viewing the plan

sheets.◦ Lacks an indexing system for a “back-end”

connection to GIS.

DATA/INFORMATION

PLAN SETS & SHEETS

THE LASERFICHE DIRECTORY

Created a CDI or document inventory number

The laserfiche library was sorted and categorized by:◦Title, Plan/Profile, Details, Notes/Specs or Misc.

THE INVENTORY

THE FINAL INVENTORY

GETTING THE DATA INTO THE GIS…

A TWO STEP PROCESS

GEO-REFERENCINGA plan sheet TIF is selected and cropped to an “Area of Interest”.

The cropped image is imported into ArcGIS & Geo-referenced to the parcel layer.

A TWO STEP PROCESSTHE INFORMATION IS DIGITIZED

A LOOK AT THE ATTRIBUTE TABLE

THE GEO-DATABASE

Typos In Numerical DataDifferent AbbreviationsMisspellings

COMMON MISTAKES

GEO-DATABASE DOMAINS

USING & SHARINGTHE SYSTEM’S INFORMATION

A “SNEAK PEAK” OF THE GIS

USING ARCREADER TO DISTRIBUTE THE GIS TO DEPARTMENTS/USERS.

ARCREADER MAP

DEPT A & USER 1

DEPT B &USER 2

DEPT C & USER 3

Adam KarapandzichCrystina DilleyDavid Cottril

David NemethDavid RadzickJohn WoodardMike Herman

INVENTORYAdam Karapandzich

Alex CortiDavid Cottril

Jake DialesandroJohn WoodardPatty Zoldak

DIGITIZING

THE CVE TEAMJeff Filarski - PartnerMike Henry - Partner

John Woodard – GIS Design/Lead

THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME!

ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS?

FOR MOR INFORMATION

PLEASE CONTACT:JOHN WOODARD PHONE: 440-439-1999EMAIL: WOODARD@CVELIMITED.COM