Abstract

Gas Utility: Transforming GIS from a Useful Tool to an Essential Tool
Track: Pipeline and Gas Utilities
Authors: Mathew Desbiens

Throughout a period of 3 year AltaGas Utilities has transformed GIS from simply a tool to view maps into an essential tool by implementing a company wide high accuracy GPS data collection program, creating a functional outage management tool, building a system to achieve regulatory compliance, developing a system to forecast capital construction projects in a detailed and extremely accurate manner and hosting GIS data to our entire organization using ArcGIS Server.