As a good friend and longtime industry veteran has often reminded, in order to get a correct result for a valve isolation analysis you need to know all of the sources that feed the point you’re inspecting.  Otherwise you can get false positives – valves you think you ned to operate but don’t really. Of […]
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File Geodatabases are great.  Since they don’t support multi-user editing or long transactions or any of the rigor of a formal database management system you of course can’t use them to directly support an enterprise implementation.  But, if you’re providing extracts for analysis or viewing or whatever, they’re ready-to-use, can hold a basically unlimited amount […]
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While we’d like to think everything going into our Geodatabase was done correctly – I mean no one purposely enters invalid data, right? In practice we need to perform QA on a regular basis. It’s really just a given. As we know in our ArcGIS/ArcFM solution stack there are two ways to perform QA, ArcFM […]
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