Discover how UMass Amherst improved facilities and campus planning efforts using leading data interoperability technology, FME.

1. Unleashing the Power of
Data Interoperability
Niels P. la Cour & Alexander Stepanov
Facilities & Campus Planning
UMass Amherst

2. 26,360 Students
5,200 Employees
10.7 Million square feet
200+ Major Buildings (main campus)
1,450 acre campus
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3. Rich GIS Data Environment
GIS Basemapping Update
Flyover April 13, 2009:
•New 0.25’ Digital Orthophotos
•Color Infrared Photography
•LiDAR Data
•Digital Terrain Model
•1’ Contour Data
•New Planimetric Data (ie. Roads,
Hydrology, Building Footprints,
Utility Poles, Fences, etc.
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4. Rich CAD (Utilities) Environment
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5. Dynamic Environment
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6. I. Compartmentalized Data
Time
Attendance Project
Funding
Accounting/
Finance
Recharge/
Billing
Funding
Budgets
House Docs
Purchasing
Processes
Available
Work
Management
Planning/
Design
Facility
Conditions
Drawings
Project
Data
Details
Attendance
Billing Contracts
Time
Accounting
GL/AP
Schedules
People Soft Horizon Quicken Excel MS Project
GIS MPAC
Data
Databases
Accessed
CAD
FAS
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7. I. Compartmentalized Data (b)
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8. I. Solution Vision
Create Enterprise Information Systems
CAFM, GIS, CAD, BIM
Maintain Data Ownership
New Workflows with Minimal Disruption
Keep Data Up-to-date
Eliminate Data Redundancy
Data Interoperability is HUGE!!
Data Interoperability enables each of these aspects by
providing powerful tools to Extract Transform and Load
data from one platform or place to another or manipulating
the data within the same software
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9. I. Not lost in translation
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10. I. Not lost in translation
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11. I. Not lost in translation
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12. I. Not lost in translation
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13. I. Not lost in translation
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14. II. Examples Discussion
Reporting tools ( AutoCAD + DBMS)
Campus 3D Model (AutoCAD + DBMS)
Storm Water Utility Data ( Civil 3D / LandXML )
Water Distribution Network (AutoCAD)
Discussion of general framework ( ArcGIS
Server/SDE as a central GIS Data Warehouse )
Discussion of ETL procedures
Simplifying workflows with existing tools
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15. II. Data InterOp WorkBench
•Visual programming
•Visual debugging
•Log files
Sources (E) Transformation (T) Destinations (L)
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16. II. Example 1: Report Generator
AutoCAD Floor Plans (~700 floor plans, 20 layers each)
Space Management Database ( SQL Server ~30,000 records )
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17. III. Report Generation ( CAD + DB + GIS )
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18. II. Report Generation : Process Diagram
CAD Floor
Plans
(BBB-FF)
Buildings
Floors
Building, Floor, RName
Apache Format change Batik Rasterizer
Data Transformation/Aggregation
Tool
Floor SVG
Graphics
Rooms
Space
Departm
ents
SMDB
TRANSFORMATION ELEVATION
COLOR DB
•Move *Scale *Rotate
Scan ‘world’ files DEM+Footprints Designers
Auxiliary DBs
Crystal Reports
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19. II. Report Generating: User’s viewpoint
•“Regular” tool in a Toolbox
•Batch mode
•Centralized location
•Shared by users
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20. III. Workflows/Tools
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21. II. Example 2: Campus 3D model
•Campus as a complex system
•Interior vs. exterior environment
•Importance of homogenous
information layer
•Applications
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22. II. Example 2: Campus 3D model
Existing campus-wide GIS layers ( exterior environment)
Existing campus-wide CAD layers ( exterior environment)
Space Management Database ( SQL Server ~30,000 records )
AutoCAD Floor Plans (~700 floor plans, 20 layers each) Spatial DB ( ArcSDE)
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23. III. Example 2: 3D representation of rooms
0318_04_0020A
Spatial database is a collection
of rooms, which are registered
in physical space and have
unique “global” campus ID.
Connection to the enterprise
DB
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26. III. Example 2: Campus 3D model
Floor 10
Interior environment exterior environment
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27. III. Campus 3D tool: Process Diagram
Process
Requirements:
“Seamless”
Repeatable
Easy-to-use
CAD Floor
Plans
(BBB-FF)
Buildings
Floors
Spatial DB
( ROOMS)
Building, Floor, RName
Data Transformation/Aggregation
Tool
Rooms
Space
Departm
ents
SMDB
ArcSDE
TRANSFORMATION ELEVATION
COLOR DB
•Move *Scale *Rotate
Scan ‘world’ files DEM+Footprints Designers
Auxiliary DBs
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28. III. Campus 3D tool: Implementation
Sources Transformation ( geometry and attribute manipulation )
4 CAD Layers
ESRI File
Geodatabase
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29. Discussion of potential applications
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30. III.
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31. II. Incorporating BIM data
Revit Models IFC
GML
CityGML
Data extrusion
GIS
AEC GIS
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32. III. Maintaining Utilities ( Civil 3D to GIS DB)
AutoCAD layers ( legacy data )
Civil 3D ( new projects )
Need to incorporate into GIS WH
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33. III. Maintaining Utilities ( Civil 3D to GIS DB)
Image: SEA Consultants
Image: SEA Consultants
Toolset: Civil 3D, Revit, NavisWorks Stormwater, Sewer networks
Pipe networks: structures, pipes,
fittings, etc.
Surveys, Surfaces
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34. III. Maintaining Utilities ( Civil 3D to GIS DB)
Data Models
UML
Case Tools
“logical” data model
“physical” data model
?
Civil 3D ArcGIS Server/SDE
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35. III. Maintaining Utilities ( Civil 3D to GIS DB)
LandXML
Data Models
UML
Case Tools
Data InterOperability Ext
Pipe Networks
Civil 3D ArcGIS Server/SDE
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36. III. Maintaining Utilities ( Civil 3D to GIS DB)
GML
OGC: LandGML.xls
LandXML LandGML
Data Models
UML
Case Tools
Data InterOperability Ext
Pipe Networks
Civil 3D ArcGIS Server/SDE
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37. III. Maintaining Utilities ( Civil 3D to GIS DB)
OGC: LandGML.xls XML + fxMap
GML
LandXML LandGML
Data Models
UML
Case Tools
App schema: Pipe Networks
xfMap Geometry
Data InterOperability Ext
Pipe Networks
Civil 3D ArcGIS Server/SDE
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38. III. Maintaining Utilities ( Civil 3D to GIS DB)
OGC: LandGML.xls XML + fxMap
GML
LandXML LandGML
Data Models
UML
Case Tools
App schema: Pipe Networks
xfMap Geometry
Data InterOperability Ext
Pipe Networks
RDBMS
Civil 3D ArcGIS Server/SDE
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39. III. Maintaining Utilities ( Civil 3D to GIS DB)
Demo: Building 3D geometry ( edges, junctions ) from attribute data ( RDBMS - GIS )
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40. III. Maintaining Utilities ( Civil 3D to GIS DB)
LandXML
3D GIS geometric network
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41. III. Maintaining Utilities ( Civil 3D to GIS DB)
Civil 3D LandXML LandGML …. GIS
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42. III. Maintaining Utilities ( Civil 3D to GIS DB)
3D GIS geometric network: all data on Structures, Pipes, Fittings, Valves, etc.
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43. III. Workflows/Tools
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44. III. Example 3: Water Distribution Network
AutoCAD
Centralized WH Editing tools “Delivery” tools
multi-user env.
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45. III. Example 3: Water Distribution Network: DB Design
•Water Distribution Network Data Model ( ESRI RC)
Network
Edges
Main lines
Lateral lines ( hydrant service)
Nodes
Fittings
Hydrants
Service lateral points
Valves ( main, hydrant, building PI)
•Customization
•ArcDiagrammer Geo XRay Case Tools
( DB Diagram DB Schema )
•ArcCatalog ( XML workspace - GeoDB)
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46. III. Example 3: Water Distribution Network: ETL
ETL Steps:
•Etl valves
•Etl hydrants
•Main Lines (candidates)
•Lateral lines ( candidates)
•Service Points
•Fittings ( joins )
•QA/QC
•Errors
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47. III. Example 3: Water Distribution Network: Editing
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48. III. Workflows/Tools
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49. III.
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50. Future Development
3D models for navigation and routing ( building + Campus)
Moving to BISDM data model and
adding textures to Campus 3D model
Analytical models for water networks
Explore in depth use of ArcGIS for AutoCAD
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51. Summary
DataInterOp extension allows us to aggregate
and maintain up-to-date campus-wide spatial
database without changing existing work
processes ( work flows).
Data Models
Editing Templates
CASE Tools
Water Utilities Team ( materials )
are available from ESRI Resource Center
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52. Data Interoperability Extension
QA
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53. III. Report Generating: EPS vector graphics
•Important for designers
•Ready to use for publishing
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