The Potchefstroom Campus of the North West University contains old water pipelines that
are not well documented. Many of the newer water pipelines are not well documented either.
A central data storage system that could contain the information with ease of access to update
and retrieve information of these waterlines is lacking. There is a need to find a way that
existing potable water network data could be represented and stored with GIS. The solution
would contribute to the management of the water system on Campus.
The aim of this study is to create a seamless geodatabase as a pilot project for the potable
water infrastructure at the Potchefstroom Campus of the North West University. The pilot
project focuses on buildings E4 and E6. ArcGIS 10 was selected to serve as the key software
system that would be applied as a medium to solve and represent the problem. ArcGIS
geodatabase serves as a container to store spatial data with. Data with regard to the potable
water system was collected from various sources of which available electronic and hard copy
CAD data was the general format.
A file geodatabase was created in ArcCatalog with a standard co-ordinate system as reference
to the data. ArcMap was applied for 2D editing and georeferencing of the CAD drawings
which were followed by a composition of attribute data for the created features. The end
result was represented in ArcScene for 3D visualization and 3D analysis. It also provided
ease of access to the attribute information and relationships and the capability to perform the
shortest route analysis. / Thesis (M.Sc. (Geography and Environmental Studies))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2012
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:nwu/oai:dspace.nwu.ac.za:10394/9510 |
| Date | January 2011 |
| Creators | Du Toit, Armand Ludwig |
| Publisher | North-West University |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
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