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Enhancing GIS Efficiency with MapWiki in Indiana Utility Boundary Project

This project converted utility boundary data into a statewide GIS layer with high accuracy using MapWiki collaboration. Participants resolved 176 anomalies successfully within project schedule, delivering results on time and on budget. The innovative approach combined mapping and wiki technologies for seamless collaboration and efficient data entry.

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Enhancing GIS Efficiency with MapWiki in Indiana Utility Boundary Project

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  1. PROJECT MAPWIKIS THE INDIANA UTILITY BOUNDARY EXPERIENCE

  2. Project Participants

  3. Project Description • Convert utility boundary and attribute information from 698 IURC “Facet” Maps into a single statewide GIS layer. • Map sources include paper and mylar maps, Shapefiles and AutoCAD files. • Deliver the new GIS layer in an ArcGIS 9.1 Geodatabase format. • Achieve 100% accuracy for utility boundaries and a 98% accuracy for boundary attributes. • Complete the project in 9 months.

  4. Project Delivery Areas

  5. Utility Boundary Attributes

  6. The Challenge“A Key to the success of this project is to realize that it is not only technical data entry, but also the resolution of conflicting boundaries.” How to: • Provide continuous updates on the status of the conversion process, and • At the same time provide a means for resolving boundary errors and disputes, and • Do this while staying within our project schedule

  7. Meeting the Needs of Two Cultures

  8. The SolutionA Map combined with a Wiki: A MapWiki

  9. Ward CunninghamCreated the First Wiki- 1994

  10. Where did the term “Wiki” come from?

  11. What is a Wiki ? Ward Cunningham defined a Wiki as “the simplest thing that could possibly work.” The minimal software necessary for online collaborative communication. Cunningham went on to describe a Wiki as “a work sustained by a community.”

  12. Jimmy WalesCreated Wikipedia - 2001 • 11th most visited website in the world

  13. Wiki Software Used – Mediawiki

  14. WebGIS Software Used - Mapserver

  15. The MapWiki Network

  16. MapWiki Information Flow

  17. Wiki Front Page

  18. General Wiki Content • General Wiki information included: • Map Instructions • Wiki Instructions • Flag Page Instructions • Utility ID and Name Index • Map and Wiki Navigation Instructions

  19. Specific Wiki Content • Project specific Wiki information included: • Bi-Weekly Progress Reports • Meeting and Delivery Announcements • Data Acceptance Reports • A Specific Flag Resolution Page for each Boundary Anomaly Identified

  20. Utility ID and Name List

  21. Project Progress Reports

  22. Search by Facet Map

  23. Search by Utility

  24. Map Showing Anomaly Flags

  25. Utility Search for Anomaly Flags

  26. Individual Flag Page in Wiki

  27. MapWiki Results • The MapWiki was set up and operating within two weeks of the project start date. • The MapWiki allowed 122 separate organizations to collaborate successfully using the Internet on a complex statewide GIS project. • During the course of the project 176 boundary anomalies were identified and resolved with no significant delays to the overall project. • The project was completed on time and on budget.

  28. Completed Statewide Electric UtilityBoundary Layer - December 2006

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