Hi All, Has anyone had any experience with accepting the lodgement (from external organisations) of digital data. I am in the process of changing the 'core' GIS platform from Intergraph MGE to something more suitable to our business needs. As a side project I am also looking at enabling contractors to provide Council with digital data showing the location and attribute data of underground services they have placed. My initial thoughts, given the complexity and variety of software packages that the contractors and developers use, is to create a simple text file processing system. The first file being a 'map' file eg "id,x,y" to define node points and "id,x,y,x,y,..." to define linear features. The second file would be the attribute data, for example for a pipe it may look like: "id,feature_type,diameter,material,upstream_Invert_Level,DownStream_Invert_L evel,......" Having defined the standards, domains etc I would leave it up to the individual contractors/developers to decide how they generate the files. My 'master plan' is for the Council staff to process these files at the desktop level, confirm the data and then 'commit' the data to the core GIS which will automatically update the core data. The main reason for this is one of cost. I cannot afford to operate 6 copies of, say, ArcInfo/SDE and can see no reason why the process of commiting the data cannot be automated. Does anyone have experience with taking digital data in a simply format from non-GIS external parties and automatically processing it into a core GIS environment. Any comments or leads would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Martin =================================== Martin Roundill GIS Manager Waitakere City Council Private Bag 93109 Henderson Waitakere City New Zealand Ph +64 9 836 8000 ext 8344 Fax +64 9 836 8001 email [EMAIL PROTECTED] =================================== ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
