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StatMap Earthlight GIS at Campbell Reith Consulting Engineers Samantha Cherrett GIS Specialist samcherrett@campbellreith.com

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! Page 2

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. Page 3

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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 After evaluating and analysing hundreds of un-catalogued historical documents, the result was a map that makes them more accessible to everyone on the project team.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…. Page 6

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 Page 7

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! Page 8

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. Page 9

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. Page 10

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. Page 11

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??? Page 12