MSD Facility Viewer Locating and Visualizing Supporting Documentation Spatially

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MSD Facility Viewer Locating and Visualizing
Supporting Documentation Spatially
Eric ONeal Alex Talbott
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Background
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What is the MSD Facility Viewer?

• Silverlight-based custom web application that
  seamlessly links facility assets to scanned
  documents.
• GIS Features stored in ArcServer.
• Images and video stored on disk.
• Supporting documents for a facility or asset
  stored in eB.
• Asbuilt Drawings
• Permit Documents
• Operator Manuals

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What is the MSD Facility Viewer?
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Benefits of the MSD Facility Viewer

• Features can be selected and associated
  documentation can be viewed instantly.
• One to many relationship with documents and
  processes is supported.
• The EPA Consent Decree mandated more accurate
  record keeping. This resulted in the need to
  link multiple documents.

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Benefits of the MSD Facility Viewer

• Supporting documents in eB were often difficult
  to locate. (Particularly to a user untrained in
  eB.)
• Assets or facilities changed names.
• Wildcard searches in eB return hundreds of
  records.
• Documents in eB are now easier to find by
  utilizing the GIS.

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Benefits of the MSD Facility Viewer

• MSDs existing Power Triangle software made
  this application easy to develop.

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Hansen
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Hansen

• What is it?
• How did it start?
• The evolution of what is stored.
• The players.

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eB 14 Enterprise Bridge
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eB 14 Enterprise Bridge

• What is it?
• How did it start?
• The evolution of what is stored.
• The players.

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ESRI GIS
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Louisville MSD GIS

• Exploded into existence.
• Initially used as a tool to store sewer assets.
• Evolved to drive the day to day operations of
  most departments.
• Customer Service
• Engineering
• Operations
• Regulatory Services
• Emergency Management

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DEMO
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Development Team

• Eric ONeal (MSD GIS)
• eric.oneal_at_louisvillemsd.org
• Alex Talbott(MSD GIS)
• alex.talbott_at_louisvillemsd.org

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Questions?