A Road Map for PODS
Utilizing ArcGIS Location Reference for Pipelines
(ALRP)
A Road Map for PODS Esri ALRP
• PODS President Comments on Next Generation of the PODS Association:
 Governance
 Communication
 Strategic Initiatives
• ALRP Project will be developed within this new organization
• Opportunity for a PODS implementation pattern that is FUNDAMENTALLY
DIFFERENT
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PODS Board of Directors
Technical
Committee
Organization
Technical Committee
on Governance
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Overall governance of PODS
Adopt strategy and policy
Approvals
Technical direction
of PODS Association
PODS Technical Committee
-adopted 2015
For Data Modeling
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Data modeling oversight and structural
implementation of PODS Relational and Spatial
Model Standards
Model maintenance and integrity
Provide modeling design and advice to groups.
P R O J E C T Te a m s
WORK GROUPS
Road Map for PODS - Food for Thought
• Future PODS Implementation Patterns: what is most important?
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Performance?
Improved Interoperability?
Best Practices Documentation?
New Standards?
New Data that needs to be managed?
Other items?
All of the above?
• Join us in the Next Generation Data Model Town Hall discussion this afternoon (Waterway
Ballrooms 1 and 2)
Core Terms
• ALRP
ArcGIS Location Referencing for Pipeline
• UPDM
Utility and Pipeline Data Model
What is ALRP
10+00
+ footage
• Adds Linear Referencing
Capabilities to the Geodatabase
• Is a mixture of linear referencing enabled features combined with Esri software
(extensions and GP tools)
• Software is being developed for the ArcGIS Pro platform
What is UPDM
• Template Data Model for Pipelines
• Capable of supporting both stationed
and non-stationed pipelines
• Targeted at vertically integrated utilities
• (Distribution and Transmission)
PODS Task Force Work
• Task Force Created
4 PODS Board Members Participated
• Conducted research into ALRP and UPDM offer from Esri
• Validated findings with Esri
• Issued draft position statement to the PODS Board
• Board approved position statement and it was published
• Board approved formation of a Technical Working Group
• Co-Chair – Jeff Allen, Novara GeoSolutions
• Co-Chair - Mike Ortiz, Plains All American Pipeline, L.P.
Current PODS Position
• ALRP would be beneficial to PODS members
• UPDM will not be part of the current PODS roadmap
• Technical Working Group should be formed to expedite incorporating ALRP into PODS
• Esri ALRP experts should be engaged with the technical working group
ALRP Core Location Model
Vision
Incorporate ALRP
objects into the core
of PODS and align
existing Relational
Model attributes with
this new
implementation
pattern
Multiple Location Referencing Modes
can be utilized simultaneously
Extension add basic liner reference editing
to ArcGIS Pro
choose centerlines to associate
to routes
apply measure updates to events
impacted by route edits
edit routes and route measures
ribbon tab only displays when location
referencing data in map
edit centerlines that
make up routes
identify measures and
search for routes
Basic Editing Activities Supported
by ALRP Extension
Project Guidelines
• Utilize best practices from current relational and spatial implementation
patterns
• Should work with the out of the box ALRP toolset
• Determine and document limitations
• Align terminology
Initial Focus
Begin to build ALRP
compatible features
that will work with the
beta release of ALRP
due in mid October
Begin with the Product
Transport Features
Schedule
• Group started work mid summer
• Began building a beta model in mid August
• Initial model working with ALRP by mid November
• Beta model turned over to the data modeling team by years end