Utility companies require precise mapping and field data collection.
If you’re responding to outages, managing maintenance and repair, providing maps of gas lines, electric distribution grids, water/wastewater pipelines – you need to know exactly where everything is, now and for the future.

The challenge for telecoms and utility companies is to map, model, manage and maintain their distributed facilities and networks optimally to meet new customer expectations and industry compliance regulations. It’s not uncommon that utilities are still relying on inaccurate paper maps, hand-drawn notes or worker recollection on where assets as crucial as water or gas mains, valves, hydrants, etc. Repair and replace utility lines more efficiently and realize ROI quickly in an investment in utility mapping.

CompassData offers extensive experience in field data acquisition and conversion services, along with best of the breed software application capabilities.
 
With Utility Mapping in place, you can:

• Develop more efficient project planning for maintenance and repair programs
• Logically store locations and attributes of all assets
• Make better decisions based on comparison data of exactly what is where (lines, base maps, equipment age and condition)
• Create user-friendly access to information through GIS mapping of data
• Make updating efficient, simple and fast
• Work with your local municipal, county or state GIS data set for digital viewing of how the entire infrastructure works together
• Produce printable maps and also use GIS on handhelds or internet-enabled laptops for on-site, in the field productivity

Examples of Features CompassData can collect for a Utility GIS include:

• valves
• fire hydrants
• manholes
• sewer lines
• wetlands
• well-heads
• trees
• benches
• signs
• utility poles
• meters
• pipelines
• archeological sites
• parks
• parking lots
and more!

If your project calls for the creation of an entire base map or for out-sourcing field data collection, contact CompassData for a custom solution to meet your needs.