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Comment #16382110
Both sides use GIS to do their jobs. The scada part is a little different since one-line diagrams are all that is needed for that. But the dispatching is all GIS based. We make sig…
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Comment #16381028
Its not so much that you have to balance the load in a given area. You must balance the load beyond breakers as much as possible. If the load becomes too far out of balance, the mu…
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Comment #16381006
The cell companies are actually moving away from the large towers as 5g service is deployed in favor of microcells. http://www.steelintheair.com/Blog/2017/04/top-10-things-the-... …
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Comment #16380978
Your bottom picture also shows half of a snowshoe fiber slack storage location. They are used at almost every splice so the splice can be moved to the ground easily and placed into…
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Comment #16380960
We have also started using ductile iron poles. They are much easier to drill and last longer than the galvanized.
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Comment #16380940
This is only true at dysfunctional utilities. We dont even have paper maps and havent since the 90s. GIS is the standard for all our employees.
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Comment #2560699
Depending on performance, this could be made into a very decent GIS viewer. You could even go so far as to do layer menus and draw ordering. Labeling might be really expensive thou…
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Comment #2560569
What would it take to add lines and points to the supported types and make them clickable with perhaps a fudge factor radius?