Session: UT234-1
Title: Solving Spatial Problems in a CAD-Driven GIS for Telephone Companies
Instructor: Tim Jones
Course Description: Independent telephone companies share many of the same business and technical challenges in geographic information systems (GIS) with utility suppliers and government agencies. In 2003, Ponderosa Telephone implemented an end-to-end technology-integrated GIS solution to increase the value of their GIS data. This solution has helped Ponderosa streamline workflows by integrating global positioning satellite (GPS) data with their GIS as well as providing maps to field technicians. Maintaining maps and data in a true GIS environment has also given them the ability to perform GIS analysis to do budget planning for future sites as well as automate Form 477 reporting.