MidAmerican Energy Company, IA
(Field Inventory)
While FDSI has delivered digital field inventory information for many years, this project includes digitization of pole locations and circuit graphics using pen-based computers. The software used for this purpose provides tools to edit individual data items and circuitry in the field. The deliverable describes the electric system from the substation fence to the service. The project included 430,000 poles and was completed in 1999. The 98.5% accuracy requirement was exceeded.

Eugene Water & Electric Board, OR
(Field Inventory)
FDSI inventoried approximately 22,500 poles and 42,500 meters for the Eugene Water & Electric Board (EWEB). This project involved moving landbase and customer data from the EWEB Smallworld GIS to Field Data’s proprietary ISDF pen-based data capture software. This data constituted the basic input for the Field Inventory process. FDSI then performed a complete trace of each secondary/service to determine the presence of premise point of delivery or meter(s). Each meter number in the EWEB data file was complimented with the number of the serving transformer and the pole number where the service originated. FDSI also added poles not on the sources, corrected the location of poles and transformers and captured information on foreign contacts. This data was then exported from ISDF and loaded back to the EWEB Smallworld GIS. The project was finished on time and the accuracy of the data captured exceeded the 98% project requirement.

NewCom Companies - Project Mainstreet, CO
(Base & Route Field Walkout)
FDSI inventoried 30 miles of fiber route in Colorado Springs, Colorado. In this project our field engineer gathered all pertinent information necessary to install the strand and eventually design a telecommunications system. During this project FDSI became familiar with the NewCom walkout specifications and developed the beta version of the CATV data capture software.

Middle Tennessee Electric Membership Corporation
(GPS Field Inventory and Landbase Conversion)
The team of FDSI and Rolling, Hocevar & Associates captured locations of over 130,000 poles, pad-mounted transformers and devices, manholes and pullboxes. Attribute data included pole numbers and foreign attachments. Location data was obtained using GPS and laser distance measuring equipment. Landbase was acquired using vehicle mounted GPS equipment for the street centerlines, waterway crossings, railroads, bridges and cross country transmission lines intersecting the traveled street centerlines. All remaining information (political boundaries, sublots, etc.) was derived from the USGS quads and tax map source information. This data was then warped to fit the more accurate GPS centerline locations. GPS positional accuracy was specified to be sub-meter, using two Trimble base stations and ProXL equipment. The final output was at a scale of 1" = 400’.

Century Communications, Inc., NM
(Base & Route Field Walkout / As-built Walkout)
The Team of FDSI and SecaGraphics (SECA) provided field data collection and creation of an integrated mapping and cable design database for Century New Mexico Cable Television Corporation’s Portales and Questa, New Mexico systems. The design database was created on the MAGIC system and included approximately 55 miles of cable plant in the Portales system and 35 miles in Questa. SECA provided land base digitizing, route digitizing, RF design/drafting and Fiber design/drafting. These processes were based on source materials and project requirements provided by Century New Mexico Cable Television Corporation and data captured in the Base & Route Field Walkout and As-built Walkout performed by Field Data Services, Inc.

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