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Shannon Qualie

BSc, CETGIS & Asset Management:Moving into the Future

The Past: The Inventory▪ GIS commonly used for simply holding data

▪Automatic data acquisition

▪Drawing digitization

▪MIMS

▪ Firm belief in having data

▪ More is better

The Past: The Inventory▪ The accuracy rabbit hole

▪ Sub cm GPS or survey

▪7 decimal places

▪Day of install

▪ We are not landing the mars rover on your manhole

Now: The Inventory▪ Most useful info is in people. Download their brains!

▪Memories

▪Stories

▪ Or a photo

The Present: Begin Where You Are▪ Get the data out of the basement or people’s heads

▪ Sketchy data is better than no data

▪ Data entry is easily (cheaply?) farmed out

The Present: Duelling Datasets▪ Purpose of Cadd▪Design

▪ Purpose of TCA (often Excel)▪Report depreciation of assets

▪ Purpose of GIS▪Data Containment and Linking

The Present: Data Access▪ Get the right information to the right people at the right time

▪ Limiting access to a single point is a very big risk

▪ 3 Groups▪Public Works – needs accurate location and attributes

▪Administration – needs to ask strategic question

▪Leadership (Public) – needs to know why

The Present: Historical Data▪ There is power in trends.

▪Strategic planning

▪ Operations & Maintenance Tracking▪Maintenance isn’t free

▪Materials aren’t free

The Present: Implementation▪ The biggest hurdle

▪http://themaintainers.org/

▪ Be honest about the people/skills you have and what you need▪Outsource what you can’t have or don’t want

▪Personal Capacity vs. Interest vs. Space

▪Time – this is a process; Is it working?

Role of the GIS Practitioner▪ Data Boss▪ Information Management▪ Guardian of the one truth

▪Guide to the Stated Reality▪ A guide doesn’t “do”, they facilitate access for others to “do”

▪ Blow open the gates to the data castle

▪Builder of Detail▪ What do we need next

Role of the GIS Practitioner▪ The Translator▪Getting information to the people who need it, how they need it

▪ The Communicator▪Who is your audience?

▪What is your message?

The Future: Defining the Problem▪ It’s about more than the math

▪Cost, Inventory, Accounting

▪What do you need to do?

▪ How and what to communicate?

▪ How to make defensible decisions?

▪Can GIS help?

The Future: Services▪It’s all about Services

▪Municipalities exist to provide services to people

▪Expensive▪The public doesn’t realize this

▪ Heavy Expectation▪ Snow clearing to dishwasher fixing

▪ Communication of Levels of Service is key

The Future: Education▪ Get administration, leadership, and public on the same page

▪The Cost-Service-Risk Triangle

▪Goal: Defensible decision making

Alberta Municipal Affairs: Asset Management Handbook and Toolkit

A modern GIS professional is a facilitator.

An information professional who facilitates:

▪Data access

▪Communication

▪Understanding

We are the oil in the system

Questions?

Shannon Qualie

squalie@urbansystems.ca

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