Yarra Valley Water

Keeping Pace with Infrastructure Churn

To efficiently manage constant tweaking of the database, at Yarra Valley Water information systems.

Challenge

Managing a precise description of Water, Sewerage and  Recycled Water, which is accurate enough to be used for commercial and engineering decisions, is a major undertaking. The organisation recently implemented Hexagon’s  G/Technology to provide GIS functionality. It gives users a complete description of the network.

Solution

Yarra Valley Water engaged 1Spatial to develop a new and advanced Development Industry Translator (DIT), specifically to manage updates to the system. The DIT application developed by 1Spatial utilises FME Server for the task, as it is especially adept at transforming complex spatial data and translating data from one format to another. It allows systems designers and  external contractors to lodge their engineering drawing in DGN or DXF format. YVW is then able to automatically validate them, ensuring they meet their engineering drawing standards and transferring them to the G/Technology system with a minimum of effort.