topic What are some good data sources for electric utilities and fiber optics in the USA/Texas? in Electric Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/electric-questions/what-are-some-good-data-sources-for-electric/m-p/503011#M429 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>As an assessment jurisdiction our business and personal property appraisers need information to make estimations of value for public utilities such as electricity. What are some vector data sources that you turn to for electric utility lines? Do you have to contact the municipality/public works department for that? I was curious if there was any regional or national agency that had oversight for this sort of resource that could provide it with a fairly short update cycle. Fiber optic network data would also be beneficial. </P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 31 Jul 2014 15:19:05 GMT JohnFell 2014-07-31T15:19:05Z What are some good data sources for electric utilities and fiber optics in the USA/Texas? https://community.esri.com/t5/electric-questions/what-are-some-good-data-sources-for-electric/m-p/503011#M429 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>As an assessment jurisdiction our business and personal property appraisers need information to make estimations of value for public utilities such as electricity. What are some vector data sources that you turn to for electric utility lines? Do you have to contact the municipality/public works department for that? I was curious if there was any regional or national agency that had oversight for this sort of resource that could provide it with a fairly short update cycle. Fiber optic network data would also be beneficial. </P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 31 Jul 2014 15:19:05 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/electric-questions/what-are-some-good-data-sources-for-electric/m-p/503011#M429 JohnFell 2014-07-31T15:19:05Z Re: What are some good data sources for electric utilities and fiber optics in the USA/Texas? https://community.esri.com/t5/electric-questions/what-are-some-good-data-sources-for-electric/m-p/503012#M430 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>John,</P><P></P><P>From the fiber side of things, most companies themselves are don't know where they have fiber, surprisingly. </P><P><SPAN style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #44546a;">The only commercial source for fiber data which I am aware of is GeoTel: </SPAN><A href="http://www.geo-tel.com/" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;">www.geo-tel.com</A></P><P>The FCC also collects service territories from telecoms if you just need to know what services are offered in a certain area, but I am not sure how publicly available they make that data.</P><P></P><P>-Patrick</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 31 Jul 2014 18:57:08 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/electric-questions/what-are-some-good-data-sources-for-electric/m-p/503012#M430 SpatialNinja 2014-07-31T18:57:08Z