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I am looking for the communities most useful GIS functions, not just image overlay, searching and styling, deeper broader functions such as finding the cause of a network fault as an example:

Water meter readings from a closed network should all add up, if they don't then theres a fault somewhere, using GIS analyst functions I could narrow down to a section where the water meters no longer add up therefore suggesting a location for the issue.

We currently have a very detailed cad style system but no network node / edge linkage thats workable, I'm looking at ways I can put monetary value on imporving our existing GIS dataset not just a change from now on etc etc... I'm suggesting the cost involved in improving existing dataset will be outweighed by the efficiency and benefits.

I realise this is a fairly basic issue for many I was just hoping for a compiled list of resources for which I can pull support from.

Cheers

-Jamo

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Voted to close as overly broad. See the FAQ: gis.stackexchange.com/faq#dontask – blah238 Sep 21 '12 at 6:37
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Infrastructure Network Editing for ArcGIS is a very robust set of tools for dealing with utility data in a geometric network. It allows you to transfer attributes from edges to junctions and vice versa, among other things. – Rayner Sep 21 '12 at 6:45
I agree with @blah238 - there's not a question mark anywhere to be found so this does not seem to fit the Q&A style of SE-GIS – PolyGeo Sep 21 '12 at 8:04
Well that hurt :( can anyone point me in the direction of customer service, jk. Seems the question was knocked back because there is no one answer fits? I will keep building my test dataset and see where it gets me, thankyou for the input on why question has been closed. – Jamo Sep 24 '12 at 1:11

closed as not a real question by blah238, PolyGeo, radek, underdark♦ Sep 21 '12 at 12:16

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