Nathan Sturgill

Public Utilities Department Internship

October 22, 2021

Week 6&7

• To start out week 6 I worked more on the initial basemap for the city of Delaware and the attribute audit for the storm and water systems located throughout the city of Delaware. I finished this attribute audit and was able to make clear to Janelle and the rest of the Public Utilities Department about the missing data in the storm and water systems in the GIS folders containing this data. This will help the department mitigate future problems that might occur when looking for data in the water and storm systems. After I finished the attribute audit I was then instructed to sign up for the Trimble company learning program that teaches the basics about CityWorks as a whole. Janelle instructed me to go through the course at my own pace and to work on the course while also learning the city of Delaware GIS ins and outs as well.

I was able to get started on the CityWorks training program and have so far made some progress throughout the program. I learned that the CityWorks system works very similar to that of Arcmap and ArcGIS in general, but it does have some key differences. For example, base maps in CityWorks do not work on the same editing scale that they do in Arcmap. I have been learning the very basics of the system and how to run everything in the system myself such as the process of making work orders for others to see in CityWorks and how to assign different people in the system to different problems that need to be addressed in the system. I expect to continue working on the CityWorks system and become familiar with the tools necessary to operate the system at a high level. I also continue to learn how to handle record drawings in the Department of Public Utilities and how to insert some of these record drawings into Arcmap with the help of Janelle.