a creative way to automate rubber sheeting

A Creative Way to Automate Rubber Sheeting

Scott DiGiacintoSenior Solution Architect, Korem

Trusted Reseller and Integrator of Software and Geospatial Data

Contributing to its client’s success for 23+ years Gold Partnership with Safe Software Partner since 2006North American Coverage (USA & Canada Offices)

Who is ?

Customer: Frontier Communications

Telecommunications companyPhone, Internet, TV

Telco 101Plant: infrastructure that makes the

whole thing work

Why do we care?Because they bought a TON!!! VerizonDoubled the size of all their plantOver 8.5 million items3rd acquisition

GOALSMove massive amounts of spatial data from CAD to Oracle SDEMove flat data from Verizon scheme to Frontier SchemeSub India company for manual adjustments to data

GOALSFailure – data moved over very late and LOTS of manual adjustments both spatial and flat dataSuccess – flat data moved over minimal adjustments to spatial dataKEY Rubber sheeting

Example

Previous attempts & resultsSingle point with rotationBottom left/top rightResults

LOTS of manual edits. VERY COSTLYVERY time consuming slowed down delivery

PlanFind IntersectionsKnow NAVTEQ Data

Auto Control Points

Fuzzy Control PointsConfigurable thresholdOptional usage

Manual Control PointsEasily CompareOptional usage

Combined ResultsCustomer Very pleasedMinimized Manual AdjustmentsSaved Money and TimeMany other hurdles both Spatial and data were also overcame.SUCCESS!!

FME is a great product. Korem resells and integrates.

Main point: Korem + FME = SUCCESS

Thank you!Scott DiGiacintosdigiacinto@korem.com1-888-440-1627korem.com