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GS 440 - It’s Not Just a Smallworld® Anymore

Pat Reid

Spatial Business Systems Autodesk Business Unit Director

Dennis Beck

Spatial Business System CEO

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Class Summary

Overview of integration issue

Solutions for Smallworld to Autodesk

Demonstration

Spatial Gateway for enterprise-level environments

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Learning Objectives

At the end of this class, you will be able to:

Understand advantages of integrating CAD and GIS

Understand difference of real-time integration vs. data translation

Learn SBS/Autodesk solution for CAD/GIS integration

Learn concepts of enterprise-level spatial integration

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Why Integrate GIS and CAD?

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Traditional Reason Not to Integrate

Too complicated!

Technically

Organizationally

Different approaches to the work

CAD operators utilize engineering precision to capture a single project

GIS captures broad concepts over large geographical areas

GIS wants CAD accuracy, but hard to do over large areas

GIS/CAD systems have their own proprietary mechanisms for

interacting with product-specific application databases

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Impact of Non-Integration

Duplicate labor costs for double entry of data

Backlog (or no) of As Built data

Design and GIS data divergence

Impacts efficiency

Safety

Compliance

Potential exists for a major loss of data integrity

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ROI Study Integrating CAD and Smallworld

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Five Year Cost Savings

-$339,773

$329,436

$722,656 $840,823 $870,656

-$339,773

-$10,337

$712,319

$1,553,142

$2,423,798

-$500,000

$0

$500,000

$1,000,000

$1,500,000

$2,000,000

$2,500,000

$3,000,000

Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5

Annual Net Savings Cumulative Net Savings

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Data Accuracy

CAD GIS

Accurate GIS Data reduces

Need for field validation

Accurate CAD

Data increases

GIS accuracy

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SBS Smallworld Integration

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Real Time Interaction versus Data Exporting

SBS has two solutions for integrating CAD and Smallworld GIS

FDO / SW Connector (Real-time)

FME / SBS Plug-in (Translation-based)

Both solutions allow for data translation on loading

FDO supports Smallworld to Autodesk Map 3-D

FME supports Smallworld to any source data

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Smallworld FDO Provider

Built on SBS SWConnector Technology

Uses C++ client library

Supports

Read/write access to feature data in a Smallworld VMDS data store

Describing schema and capabilities

Field types, Domains, Enumerators

Feature data editing

• Select

• Insert, Update, Delete

Coordinate System transformations

Disconnected processing

Long transactions

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SWConnector

Server Component

Built with Smallworld Magik

Supports Smallworld versions 3.1sp2->Current

Not all functionality supported at earlier releases

75+ Smallworld calls

Client Components

Delivered as C++ DLL, Managed C++ DLL (.Net) or Java (jar)

All clients use the same Server Component

Leverages Smallworld TICS protocol

Functionality

Full Read/Write capabilities for Smallworld data

Exposes vector VMDS and SOM geometry

Integrates with Schema, Authorization, Data, Topology, Styles, ACE etc.

Extensible by developers

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Process Flow

• Theme

• Layer

• User Selection

• Trace, Query, Scrapbook What

• Grid

• New Activity

• Existing Design

• User Defined How

• Connected

• Detached

• eTransmit Where

• On Demand

• Scheduled

• Job Server Task When

• Direct

• Job Manager Write

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Smallworld FDO Provider

AutoCAD Map 3D AutoCAD Utility Design

AutoCAD Topobase •Retrieve data •Analysis •Publish to MapGuide

DESKTOP

Browser

WEB

GE Smallworld

APPLICATION SERVER

DATABASE

MapGuide Enterprise

Publishing Distribution

•Browse •Search

MG Studio

•Add Layout •Tools •Additional data •Queries/Filters

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SWConnector Architecture

AUD

Client

Server

VMDS VMDS

WMS

Spatial

Datasets

SWConnector Server

Magik code,75+ supported API calls

Server image

TICS ACPT

SWConnector Client

(C++, .NET, Java API)

Smallworld

FDO Provider

AutoCAD

Map Platform API

Autodesk

Utility Design

SOM

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FME Overview

FME Extract,

Translate

Load

Data Store

Data Store

Data Store

Data Store

Autodesk AutoCAD

Autodesk AutoCAD Civil 3D

Autodesk AutoCAD Map 3D

Autodesk MapGuide

Autodesk Topobase

Bentley Map

Bentley MicroStation

ERDAS IMAGINE

Esri ArcGIS

Google Earth/Maps

Informatica PowerCenter

Intergraph GeoMedia

Professional

Intergraph GeoMedia WebMap

Intergraph G/Technology

MapInfo Professional

Microsoft Azure/OGDI

OpenSpirit

OpenStreetMap

Smallworld

Trimble

Over 200 supported formats

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SBS Smallworld Plug-in for FME

Smallworld GIS

SBS Plug-in

Smallworld support:

• Smallworld geometry

model

• Smallworld dimensions

• Annotation

• Multiple geometries

• Multiple worlds

• Version management

• Complex features

Scalability via FME Server

Stability

Advanced application

support

• Data synchronization

• Dynamic data access

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DEMO

FDO

FME

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Enterprise-Level Spatial Integration

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Integrating Design in a Multi-GIS Environment

Large utility organizations often end up with multiple GIS solutions as

well as analysis and CAD packages

This is sometimes caused by mergers and acquisitions

Sometimes it is just evolutionary

Having multiple GIS solutions inhibits enterprise-level application deployment

Some of the key technical challenges

Cross-system integration

Conflict resolution, the “Long Transaction” problem

Data validation between systems

Global ID management

Amongst others

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Spatial Gateway: An Enterprise Approach

Spatial Gateway is a set of technologies designed to address the multi-

GIS / CAD integration issues for enterprise utility deployments

“COTS” applications are leveraged to address many requirements

Oracle Spatial – common GIS repository

Workspace management – platform for

FME – spatial data extract-transform-load (ETL) capabilities

Specialty plug-ins and software extensions

Change detection

Conflict resolution

Common network modeling

Common application services, such as global ID management

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Terminology – Data bases

Application databases

Databases used to support specific applications, e.g. Smallworld, Autodesk’s North American Data

Model, Esri, SAP, others

Operational datastore The operational database that includes staging models, metadata models, administration tables and the canonical

data store.

Canonical datastore Application independent representation of the “Real World Objects” with mappings back to the application view of

the data

Spatial data warehouse A consolidated view of the entire GIS database that is isolated from the changes occurring in the ODS. The

spatial data warehouse provides application specific data marts to support business requirements such as

analytics and temporal modeling

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High Level Architecture ODS, CDS, SDW

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ODS Architecture

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SDW Architecture

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ODS/CDS/SDW Design Considerations

Performance

Data integrity

Application independence

Data isolation

Architectural support for advanced applications

Network-based business requirements

Historical visualization

Meaningful analytics

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