Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Data Question Responses

See some answers from Shazad regarding the data for the assignment. They questions are organized as to the dataset they refer to.

Valves
Q) What does the attribute DESIGN_LIF mean?
Expected life of an asset.

Q) For the STATUS field what does the value A mean: active?
A means Active and I means Inactive (Assets still in ground which are not operational)

Q) The ASSET_VALU field: this could have any values based on the price of the valve?
Replacement cost of an asset

Hydrants
Q) What does the LABEL field represent?
Unique Identifier in term of grouping them by neighborhoods

wat_hydrant_lead
Q) What sort of values can you envision for these pipes? PVC, copper etc.
Now everything is PVC, before DI (Ductile iron) is used as well

wat_main
Q) Under the MATERIAL field what does the value HPC mean?
This material was used a long time ago. I have sent a query to the operation personal regarding what it stands for, I will forward the reply to you as well.

General
Q) The ASSET field in the valves seems like an attribute that would be useful to have in all features. Is this true?
Yes, it will be for all assets

6 comments:

  1. This is Tyler,

    Colin Asked me to test out to make sure that it works!

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  2. Greetings Everyone.

    Yes it works.

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  3. Hello Stefan and Shazad,

    We are working on another assignment; working with your zoning.dbf and connecting to it once it is on an SQL Server.

    I am looking at the content of the zoning.dbf and am wondering if there is some data cleaning I can do. Which feilds within the zoning.dbf you need and would like to keep within the final Geodatabase. Do you need the Centroid_X, Centroid_Y, Centroid_1, and Centroid_2 feilds? Are there any other fields that can be removed.

    Thank you for your time,

    Julia Rozema

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  4. Hi Julia,

    You are correct. The data could use some cleaning. The fields you mentioned above are not needed.

    The rest is good to keep.

    Cheers,

    Stefan

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  5. Hi, Stefan

    I have a question about what some of the fields mean the fields are listed below:

    PMLOT
    PMBLK
    PMUHSE
    PMYRBL
    LINC_NUMBER

    I was just wonder for creating a form, so I can use their proper names not abbreviations

    Thank you,

    Liz

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  6. The first 4 fields come from our financial database and the first two letters in each field name mean it's a field from the property master table.

    The first 4 fields you have refer to the legal land description. In other words:

    PMLOT = Lot number
    PMBLK = Block
    PMUHSE = house number (municipal address)
    PMYRBL = ? (no such field in the data)

    LINC_NUMBE = The linc number (unique) is assigned by land titles when plans are registered with the Province.

    I hope this helps.

    Cheers,

    Stefan

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