Envitia, NIW Undertake Positional Improvement Project

Northern Ireland Water (NIW) has selected Envitia to provide a managed service which will automatically align its asset datasets to the positionally improved Ordnance Survey Northern Ireland (OSNI) large scale vector maps. Envitia will use its MapRite software as part of the service.

Following a program of work in 2013 by OSNI to redress the positional inconsistencies in their large scale vector map dataset, the majority of the water and sewer data in NIW’s Corporate Asset Register (CAR) needs to be geographically shifted to match the improved maps. The work Envitia will carry out with MapRite will automatically realign these datasets to the corresponding OSNI maps, ensuring that NIW can continue working as usual.

Envitia’s managed service includes data analysis and planning, input and advice on data rules, rehearsals, automated transformations; quality assurance and reinstatement to a replica instance of Oracle Spatial 11g R2 production database.

“The positional improvement project is hugely significant for NI Water. Spatial datasets are among some of the most accessed and analyzed data within the company and beyond. NI Water has invested heavily in spatial data and GIS over the last six years and it is vital to the company and its customers that these data and systems are fit for purpose for years to come,” said Sean O’Boyle, Asset Information Development Manager at NI Water. “Preparation for the positional improvement project has taken several years and through a rigorous procurement exercise NI Water appointed Envitia to deliver the project in July 2014.”