Some help: Pipe Networks vs Wastewater Toolkit

[browlinson]

We are currently at the very early stages of implementing GIS, as well as just clean up and standardization of drawings. This is for a municipality of a population around 35,000, with around 14,000 properties.

 

Currently, all drawings are purely linework. No objects or blocks.

 

We are working at bringing in a consultant to help us forward, but that won't actually happen for the next month or two.

 

One of our draftsman has been tasked with digitizing some as-built storm sewer information.

 

She is currently doing the same old thing, just entering it in as line-work.

 

Should we stop, and look at using either Civil Pipe Networks, or the Industry toolkit for wastewater?

 

Some suggestions on the best way to move forward would be very appreciated! I feel like doing this work the same old way doesn't have much value.

 

Thanks,

 

bret

[BIGAL]

Just make sure everything is digitised onto layers the more layers the better you can join layers into 1 but its lots harder going the other way when you realise you should have done it that way in the first place.

 

eg pipe100 pipe225 pipe300

[browlinson]

I was looking at this closer, and my feeling is that using full blown pipe networks feature might be too much work for us right now.

 

I think we will go with the toolkit, but are going to have to modify it a bit. There is no 'catch basin' object classification in the wastewater toolkit (as I said we are doing storm sewer), so we will have to create that, but it looks like this it should be a good starting point.

 

Cheers!

 

edit: Bigal, that makes sense, I will make sure we are doing that as well.