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StatMap Earthlight GIS at Campbell Reith Consulting Engineers

Samantha Cherrett GIS Specialist samcherrett@campbellreith.com

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CampbellReith – who are we?

CampbellReith… … is a well established practice of Consulting Engineers founded in 1960. … provides structural, civil, environmental, geotechnical, and transportation engineering services, both in the UK and internationally. … undertakes feasibility studies, surveys and appraisals, design, procurement and construction monitoring, as well as providing project management and specialist report and advisory services including expert evidence work. … are a medium-sized consultancy, focused on forming close working relationships with our clients. … and we are currently StatMaps only private sector client!

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Geographical Information Systems at CampbellReith

How it all started… the history of GIS at CampbellReith

• About 9 years ago; now 3 GIS people.
• Began with minimal use on environmental and

geotechnical projects.

• Spread to use by the transportation team, then civils

and more recently, structural projects. GIS has been used in some capacity on around 600 jobs.

• Also data and map-related information research for

prospective work, submissions and presentations.

• Mainly figure and drawing production to inform clients

and support our advice to them; outputs range from basic site location plans to 3D representations of geo- environmental data.

• Recently, we have looked to expand our GIS services

to small consultancies and sub contractors that do not have a their own GIS ability.

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Our work…

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Our work…

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GISSMo - Geographical Information Systems Site Model

Most recently…. We now do GISSMos. Why? We need to be efficient; we need to stand out from other engineering consultancies in our data management and presentation and GISSMo provides a USP, something that adds value. Pre-GISSMo times It started with SKID – Spatial Knowledge and Information Database. One project starts it all - Icarus HMS Daedalus – this helped us to win the job! After evaluating and analysing hundreds of un-catalogued historical documents, the result was a map that makes them more accessible to everyone on the project team. More projects and possibilities have followed….

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GISSMo history – the first projects

Non-web based early versions

• Used free viewing software
• Limited functionality
• Limited querying ability
• Updates issued on DVD/via FTP periodically
• No ability to restrict end use
• Slow and clunky
• Easier to break
• Not very intuitive to use
• Looked hideous

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The alternatives to Earthlight

Web Mapping Packages

• Tended to be ridiculously priced – we are only little!
• Most required compatibility with desktop software we did

not have and would have to purchase.

• Poor reviews!

Open source

• Required a good knowledge of end requirements to suit all

projects which was difficult at early stages.

• No in house capability for amendments and changes.

So…. Earthlight was a winner for us!

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Key software requirements

What we were looking for

• Ability to browse a mapping environment.
• Ability to link to PDFs.
• Key priority – security of data.
• Key priority – security of documents.
• Login to your data only.
• Ability to customise each end-users requirements.
• Intuitive and easy to use for those unfamiliar with

mapping sites.

• Timesaving for the end user; no need to keep asking

where something is.

• Fast and efficient for us to create an environment

where the latest information is always available and quick to update.

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How we use Earthlight for our GISSMos

Since January 2013…

• Standards, rules and environment created by us and

tailored for our needs – based upon our predictions of end user requirements!

• UK-wide data loaded in!
• Two large projects moved to Earthlight; Icarus and Griffin.
• Internal Spatial Knowledge and Information Database

(SKID) is in the process of being moved.

• Tests with smaller projects for use on a day to day basis

which would allow internal users to create their own plans.

• Access, using highly restricted tool sets has been given to

a few selected clients.

• Internal users on the Griffin GISSMo use this system on a

regular basis as a first port of call for data over our existing filing system.

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Switch to Earthlight for Demos

Case Study: Icarus GISSMo

• 444 documents & 36 layers
• A large site with complicated history

Case Study: Griffin GISSMo

• 817 documents & 38 layers
• A long term project with monitoring and additions over

time

Case Study: SID’S GISSMo

• 360 linked photographs
• A long term project for a small area but with multiple

levels of data

• Project demo data is currently being expanded

Case Study: SKID

• 6051 documents.
• Utilising years of knowledge to assist with new projects.
• Lots of data to be added from numerous sources.

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The future…

• We hope that these GISSMos become interactive site

models which can be used to filter key project information.

• We want our users to consider GISSMos as a first port of

call on all projects and we want GISSMos to assist both CampbellReith and our clients in getting the most from the information available.

• We want to improve efficiency within CampbellReith by

making all project data readily available and enabling staff to utilise this information, eg, by creating their own basic plans.

• We want to use Earthlight more!
• Any questions???