topic Underground Utility Mapping Accuracy vs. Operational View in Water Utilities Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/water-utilities-questions/underground-utility-mapping-accuracy-vs/m-p/94349#M197 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I manage the GIS system for a mid size utility company that provides electric, gas, water and wastewater service to ~450,000 customers.&nbsp; We use ESRI SDE, Online/Enterprise and ArcFM.&nbsp; Historically, we have mapped cluster features, like water and gas valves, spaced out to provide a better operational view to meet the needs of our system operators.&nbsp; However, since we began collecting sub-foot accurate GPS data a few years ago, there has been a real push from our engineering departments to map to the exact GPS coordinates.&nbsp; This creates a conflict between differing organizational needs.</P><P></P><P>I'd like feedback from other utilities about their experiences with differing accuracy needs and how they compromise between them.&nbsp;&nbsp;</P><P></P><P>Thanks in advance for any info you can provide!</P><P>Rick Powers</P><P>Knoxville Utilities Board</P><P>Knoxville, TN</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 29 Apr 2020 18:05:08 GMT RickPowers 2020-04-29T18:05:08Z Underground Utility Mapping Accuracy vs. Operational View https://community.esri.com/t5/water-utilities-questions/underground-utility-mapping-accuracy-vs/m-p/94349#M197 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I manage the GIS system for a mid size utility company that provides electric, gas, water and wastewater service to ~450,000 customers.&nbsp; We use ESRI SDE, Online/Enterprise and ArcFM.&nbsp; Historically, we have mapped cluster features, like water and gas valves, spaced out to provide a better operational view to meet the needs of our system operators.&nbsp; However, since we began collecting sub-foot accurate GPS data a few years ago, there has been a real push from our engineering departments to map to the exact GPS coordinates.&nbsp; This creates a conflict between differing organizational needs.</P><P></P><P>I'd like feedback from other utilities about their experiences with differing accuracy needs and how they compromise between them.&nbsp;&nbsp;</P><P></P><P>Thanks in advance for any info you can provide!</P><P>Rick Powers</P><P>Knoxville Utilities Board</P><P>Knoxville, TN</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 29 Apr 2020 18:05:08 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/water-utilities-questions/underground-utility-mapping-accuracy-vs/m-p/94349#M197 RickPowers 2020-04-29T18:05:08Z Re: Underground Utility Mapping Accuracy vs. Operational View https://community.esri.com/t5/water-utilities-questions/underground-utility-mapping-accuracy-vs/m-p/94350#M198 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I have heard of other organizations using feature representations to overcome the issue you have described.&nbsp; The asset gets GPSd at it's actual location, but a representation rule places the symbol at a specified offset.&nbsp; I have not tried this myself, so I have no idea on how well it would be supported across the ESRI Enterprise gamut of products.</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 29 Apr 2020 18:26:57 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/water-utilities-questions/underground-utility-mapping-accuracy-vs/m-p/94350#M198 CortWilson 2020-04-29T18:26:57Z