Case Study for GIS in the Utility and Communications Industry

Over the past 3 weeks, I've been part of a working group that gathered and summarized several case studies in GIS implementation for the utility and communications industries.

I looked specifically at the case of the DuPage Water Commission

When the commission started looking to GIS an alternative to paper mapping and institutional memory when it came to keeping track of its assets and resources, the established solutions for water utilities were found to be inappropriate. Ultimately, the DWC found a useful model that scaled well to their needs from another industry, the ArcGIS Pipeline Data Model.