About GIS and electric/gas utilities
Cities and utilities use GIS every day to help them
map and inventory systems, track maintenance, monitor regulatory compliance, or
model distribution analysis, transformer analysis, and load analysis. Look at the following examples and see how people are using GIS in their organizations.
You can use GIS to
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Provide an Integrated Job Planning/Design Environment
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Miner and Miner have built a Job Planning/Design Environment (JP/DE) system on top of their GIS software.
JP/DE provides an integrated environment for preparation of a construction work sketch, job cost estimation, and an automated means for updating the baseline corporate GIS database.
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Maintain Your Database
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Using a GIS you can enter new data or modify existing data.
This example shows a GIS interface that allows easy editing of geographic data and the display of related scanned documents.
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The Washington Water Power and Utility uses Miner and Miner's MMPowertools application to maintain the GIS gas database. It is designed to support daily map maintenance activities through a menu-driven interface that brings the power of ARC/INFO to AM/FM/GIS.
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Analyze Trouble Calls
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Trouble call analysis is crucial for effectively maintaining adequate services to all your customers. A GIS can help you locate trouble spots and reroute services without overloading the system.
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More Electric/Gas Examples
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You have seen some of the ways GIS is helping electric utilities solve a variety of problems. Visit ESRI's Electric vertical
market page and learn how GIS can provide solutions for your organization, or return to the
About GIS main page
for more examples of how GIS is being used
every day to solve a variety of problems.
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