Abstract

Synchronizing Veolia Water Data with the Latest NAVTEQ Update
Track: Database Design, Automation, and Management
Author(s): Charline Avey, Stanley Dallal

The ability of Veolia Water Indianapolis to generate routes from destination addresses relies on having the most current and complete street data available. We edit our data whenever we find our NAVTEQ street data inadequate to geocode sufficiently. A data synchronization problem arises when NAVTEQ releases a new quarterly update that may not include the edits that we have made during the quarter. We have successfully implemented a process using the Data Synchronizer ArcMap extension to resolve conflicts between our edited data and the latest NAVTEQ quarterly update. The extension identifies where features have been added, moved or deleted and where attribute values have changed. We review each conflict and choose which version to keep. Changes in the Link ID unique identifier are documented so that we can repair relationships to the NAVTEQ data from our associated tables.

Charline Avey
Veolia Water Indianapolis
1220 Waterway Blvd
Indianapolis , Indiana 46202
United States
Phone: (317) 263-6337
E-mail: charline.avey@veoliawaterna.com

Stanley Dallal
ESEA
280 Second St.
Los Altos , California 94022
United States
Phone: 650-941-4175
E-mail: dallal@esea.com