Gas Utility Completes Geospatial Conversion and Acronym (AM/FM/GIS/Cad/CIS/GPS) Integration
The economy of scale savings of large projects and the cost savings associated with several partners was instrumental in the success of Phase I of the NYSEG mapping plan. Cost savings from the county joint mapping projects were significant but more importantly proved once again the value of an accurate, detailed landbase referenced to a solid geographic reference system. With the initial success of the Tompkins County project, many additional county wide projects were completed with equal results. To date more than 120 towns and cities have been participants in our efforts to promote strong customer satisfaction at the community level.
Multiple utilities and departments have participated and benefited in our vision of cost sharing and the win-win projects accomplished through the shared participation. Some of our many partners are:
Electric, gas, water, waste water utilities
Dept. of Transportation, Dept. of Public Works, Dept. of Environmental Conservation
Real Property Tax Mapping Services, Emergency Services 911, Police
County, City and Village Highway Departments
Engineering, Planning, Soil and Water Departments
Consulting Engineering and Land Surveying Firms
Long term commitments to sharing of data and more importantly commitments to land base map maintenance have all been the very rewarding results of teamwork and the successes that come from those commitments.
Digital photogrammetric base maps were incrementally prepared geographic division by division concentrating on the divisions with the best results from joint county mapping projects. The entire landbase was completed in 1994.
Continuous productivity savings were being observed with the use of the new planimetric landbase through our on-going gas expansion projects. Again and again the county-wide joint mapping projects rewarded us in many ways in dealing with the very communities and permit issuing departments we had previously worked with. We were all working on the same page in regards to the mapping base and the working relationships established in many instances helped expedite the franchise application requirements but most importantly avoided the long delays normally experienced by expansion projects.
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