One-Call

Tuesday, March 11, 8:30

Enterprise Spatial Databases Advance GIS for Infrastructure
Track: Enterprise Architecture & System Integration
Francois Valois, Bentley Systems, Inc.

Learning Objectives:

• Learn more about spatial databases.
• Learn more about how they can be used in GIS systems.
• Learn how different systems can be integrated.

For years, GIS and its associated data stores were seen as an outsider to IT standards and architectures. Open enterprise spatial databases from vendors such as Oracle and Microsoft provide for IT standards compliance, enable a higher degree of interoperability, and facilitate use of spatial information in new and innovative ways. This presentation will examine the implications of enterprise spatial databases for traditional GIS users, new classes of spatial information users, IT professionals, and GIS vendors.

Tuesday, March 11, 9:30

Mobile Forms and GIS for Underground Damage Prevention
Track: Mobile Applications
Jennifer J. Nieland, Integrys Business Support, LLC

Learning Objectives:

• Learn to use what you have: “home grown” mobile forms and GIS for damage prevention.
• Go from paper to PC: change management while going mobile.
• Understand two steps: Going mobile changes a process, then improves it.

Imagine combining several tools in such a way they create a powerful new tool that can be applied to other processes, rendering them more efficient, effective, and less costly. This was the case at Wisconsin Public Service Corporation when locating tickets from state One Call systems, the mobile GIS viewer and electronic forms were combined and applied to Damage Prevention, or Locating. These “old” tools, used in a new way, transformed Locating from a paper process to an electronic process, improving data, saving hours and reducing costs.

Tuesday, March 11, 11:30

Modeling and Exchanging Critical Infrastructure Data
Track: Critical Infrastructure Protection and Emergency Response
Paula Rojas, GeoConnections

Learning Objectives:

• Understand approaches to exchanging critical infrastructure data.
• Apply spatial data infrastructure to critical infrastructure identification.
• Provide decision-support and information requirements to emergency managers.

Locations of critical infrastructures are key pieces of information required to support emergency management. The Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure is being employed within the public safety sector as a standard way to exchange geographic data describing infrastructure. A data model has been developed to describe infrastructure data in a structural manner and facilitate access to infrastructure data. The approach and constraints of the Canadian public safety sector to improve the access to infrastructure data will be described, and solutions will be proposed.
Copresenters: Philip Dawe, and Paula Rojas, GeoConnections