The City of Thousand Oaks, California, was embarking on the journey to transition to using Utility Network for its water network data, and other utilities in the future. The City serves as the water purveyor for approximately one-third of its geographic area, maintaining about 17,000 water service connections. For this project, GIS Surveyors won the work as the prime contractor and was tasked with cleaning up the data to prepare for the Utility Network migration, including checking and improving accuracy, completeness, connectivity, and more. Cleanup tasks included topology correction, attribute standardization, domain enforcement, conflation, spatial alignment, metadata creation, as well as documentation and training. The deliverable was a correct and accurate water network dataset, in a file geodatabase, using the Utility Network schema, and ready to import into the client’s Enterprise environment.
GIS Surveyors have performed work for the City in the past, including public works projects in 2023, and maintains an on-call agreement. Future GIS projects will include the complete migration to Utility Network, and GIS Surveyors is confident that performing the cleanup on-time and under budget will result in more opportunities to work with the City.