Abstract

Document Management and GIS working together for Land Records
Track: Electric Utilities
Authors: Renato Salvaleon

The Records unit of the Georgia Power Company Land Department is where all property research and recording related activities are conducted. Projects supported by property researchers, record keepers and GIS analysts include transmission, distribution, generation, land management and environmental activities.
The group intensively uses GIS and an application called Land Information Management System - a 12-year old, in-house developed VB/Oracle database application. LIMS has more than half a million property records and more than 100,000 plats, surveys and maps stored, recorded, maintained and used. The Land GIS system is a mix of desktop, citrix, server and mobile products connected to terabytes of raster and vector data and used by more than 300 individuals.

Having both tools is great but productivity and quality could be increased if the two are integrated together with easier to use web GIS interface. LIMS and GIS were integrated into a website aimed to both.