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SpatialNews.com Press Release
Intergraph's Geospatial Resource Management Solution Unifies City of
Hamilton and Six Municipalities' Public Works Asset Management System
City staff saves time and improves workflows by integrating public works
data and spatial information
NEW ORLEANS, May 19, 2003 - GeoSpatial World 2003 - Intergraph Mapping and
Geospatial Solutions today announced that the City of Hamilton, Ontario,
Canada, Public Works Department, has chosen Intergraph's Geospatial Resource
Management solutions to improve delivery of public services to residents in
conjunction with the recent merger of seven municipalities - now called the
City of Hamilton. Prior to the merger, the city's existing spatial and asset
management systems operated independently, resulting in duplication of data
and effort, and overall operating inefficiencies. With the merger, the
public works, transportation, environment, and operations departments will
now provide service to an expanded population of more than half a million.
New demands, such as increased maintenance and updates to public systems,
including water and sewer, and customer requests resulting from the
increased number of end-users, prompted city officials to explore various
ways to streamline their daily workflows.
Intergraph's GeoMedia(r)-Hansen Interface, will give Hamilton an easy
solution to tightly integrate their asset data. Using their existing
GeoMedia database and Hansen Infrastructure Management System, Hamilton city
employees will be able to store graphic features and associated attributes
as unified records within a centralized industry-standard object model
database. Intergraph's GeoMedia-Hansen Interface will provide the department
with a bi-directional interface to move information seamlessly between the
two databases, eliminating redundant data entry and synchronization
problems.
With the GeoMedia-Hansen Interface, data now will be entered once in one
system and then automatically synchronized with the other system. This will
allow users to switch easily between the map-based display in GeoMedia and
the detailed asset records in Hansen to view up-to-date information. The
technology will also give city employees the capability to access work
orders, customer service requests, and asset groups, thus allowing quicker
response to customer requests and issues.
According to Jim MacAulay, Supervisor of Engineering Services, Public Works
Department, City of Hamilton, the new technology is helping them improve
decision-making processes. "By integrating spatial information with tabular
assets within the interface, our users can select or locate assets on a map
and visualize asset information and work-order history spatially, allowing
them to assess and analyze scenarios with a more complete set of
information. We are pleased with the many work efficiencies we realize from
the robust set of tools, such as the capability to select several assets
spatially and create single or multiple work orders against multiple
assets."
The City of Hamilton's work will be featured at GeoSpatial World 2003, May
19 - 21, in New Orleans, La. John Murray, of Hamilton, will give a
presentation about asset management on Monday, May 19, at 3:00 p.m. An
Intergraph representative will present information on the city's internal
and external Web development on Tuesday, May 20, at 11:00 a.m. For more
information about these presentations and GeoSpatial World, visit
www.geospatialworld.com.
City of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
The City of Hamilton is situated on the southwestern shore of Lake Ontario,
an area that became a center of Canadian industry in the middle nineteenth
century when the Great Western Railway was founded there. Known as the
Birmingham of Canada for its industrial focus, Hamilton progressed from
small industrial workshops to large, nationally important factories at the
beginning of the twentieth century to the most technologically advanced
industry at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Today, the City of
Hamilton boasts a population of more than half a million people and is
located along the second largest and busiest corridor between Canada and the
United States.
Intergraph Mapping and Geospatial Solutions
Intergraph Mapping and Geospatial Solutions is a leading geospatial
solutions provider for the following markets: local, state and federal
government; transportation; utilities; communications; location-based
services; photogrammetry; remote sensing; cartography; and military and
intelligence. For more information, visit www.intergraph.com/imgs.
Related Weblinks:
www.intergraph.com/imgs
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