I was referred to come here off of another forum, here is my post from that forum.
My name is Justin and I currently work for the local water/sewer utility company. I am the person in charge of GIS Mapping of all the utilities. I have access to the new ESRI road and address layers for my area as well as the data I have created. I am using Arcmap 10, and SDImaps to map out the utilities. I would like to buy a GPS(unsure on model I need) that I can create an address, road, and fire hydrant map for use in the Fire trucks and Officer POV vehicles. I have a few questions:
I would like it to work as follows, climb in truck, address search, routing to the address, then set up proximity alarms on the Hydrants to show there location while en route. Once you arrive on scene, the truck that is in charge of hydrant operations could search nearest POI (Hydrant) and go out to get water. We don't have computers in the truck. I thought this would be a great alternative if possible.
1. How Possible is this?
2. Since I have this data, how hard would it be to build this map?
3. Recommended Brand and Model?
4. What software would I need?
5. Can I use my Address and Road layer to build the turn by turn navigation? We have updated address and the current addresses on most GPS units are off by as many as 5-6 houses.
Our County is about 484 Sq. miles of which we provide vehicle extrication to 100% of and Fire protection to about 75% of. We have a new E911 system in which the entire County and City were readdressed and, some of the road/street names changed about 2 years ago. Most of our guys know where the roads are to an extent but it is at times hard to remember exactly.
The main purpose to having this would be to get us headed the right direction and point out hydrants along the way and be able to find the nearest hydrant when looking for a water source.
Thanks,
Justin
My name is Justin and I currently work for the local water/sewer utility company. I am the person in charge of GIS Mapping of all the utilities. I have access to the new ESRI road and address layers for my area as well as the data I have created. I am using Arcmap 10, and SDImaps to map out the utilities. I would like to buy a GPS(unsure on model I need) that I can create an address, road, and fire hydrant map for use in the Fire trucks and Officer POV vehicles. I have a few questions:
I would like it to work as follows, climb in truck, address search, routing to the address, then set up proximity alarms on the Hydrants to show there location while en route. Once you arrive on scene, the truck that is in charge of hydrant operations could search nearest POI (Hydrant) and go out to get water. We don't have computers in the truck. I thought this would be a great alternative if possible.
1. How Possible is this?
2. Since I have this data, how hard would it be to build this map?
3. Recommended Brand and Model?
4. What software would I need?
5. Can I use my Address and Road layer to build the turn by turn navigation? We have updated address and the current addresses on most GPS units are off by as many as 5-6 houses.
Our County is about 484 Sq. miles of which we provide vehicle extrication to 100% of and Fire protection to about 75% of. We have a new E911 system in which the entire County and City were readdressed and, some of the road/street names changed about 2 years ago. Most of our guys know where the roads are to an extent but it is at times hard to remember exactly.
The main purpose to having this would be to get us headed the right direction and point out hydrants along the way and be able to find the nearest hydrant when looking for a water source.
Thanks,
Justin
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