CONTENTS
Certificate of original authorship 3
Certificate of Dissertation Advisor’s consent 6
Acknowledgments 8
Abstract 9
List of figures 10
List of tables 12
1 Introduction 13
1.1 Understanding City Infrastructure 13
1.2 Understanding Utility Mapping in City Infrastructure 14
1.3 Understanding the need and process of Utility Mapping in India 15
1.4 Need for Standardised Data 16
2 Mapping with GIS 19
2.1 Understanding GIS and for Utility Network 19
2.2 Use of Open Source Tools 21
2.3 Data Model 23
2.4 Study Area and Data Models used for analyses 26
2.5 Access to Data Models 28
3 Study of some Current Systems in Practice for Utility Mapping 29
3.1 Autodesk AutoCad 29
3.2 ArcGIS - Water Utility Network Editing and Analysis 29
3.2.1 Outage Viewer: 31
3.3 EPANET 31
3.4 Existing QGIS plugins - QWAT 33
3.5 Case Studies 34
3.5.1 Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) 34
3.5.2 GIS in Public Utilities in the City of Raleigh 35
3.5.3 Inspire – Infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe 37
4 Analysis 40
4.1 Understanding Water Supply Utility Network 40
4.1.1 Pipe Distribution System 40
4.1.2 Valve System 42
4.1.3 Pressure and Flow/Velocity 43
4.2 Understanding the Drainage Utility Network 44
4.2.1 Types of pipelines 44
4.2.2 Connectors 45
4.2.3 Septic Tanks 46
4.3 Data Set Analysis of Water Supply Network of Montgomery County 47
4.4 Data Model analysis of Himmatnagar, India 50
4.5 Water Utility Network Data Model Analysis on EPANET 51
4.6 Observations and Conclusions 54
4.7 Creating Web Portal 58
4.8 Mapping with open source tools 59
5 Future Scope 62
5.1 Summary 62
5.2 Future Scope for Web Mapping and Automated Tool for Mapping Utilities 63
6 References 64
Appendix 67
Plagarism Check Report 69