Orange County: Map Modernization Project III


The Orange County Map Modernization Project Phase III was a software development project for the maintenance and application of the Orange County landbase, which is based on Intergraph’s MGDM / MGE system and Oracle database.

MicroStation Development Language (MDL) was used in the software tools development, which includes:

Smart Extract: allows the user to extract area, linear, and point features from a MGDM administrative project

Shared Edges Building and Maintenance, includes:

  • Extract shared edge candidates
  • Clean the extracted data
  • Create polygons for specified features
  • Build shared edge table in the Oracle database
  • Maintain edge relationships

Data Distributor: allows the user to maintain customer information in an Oracle database

Automated Addressing: uses an advanced algorithm to generate unique addresses based on the street centerline and the current and neighboring parcels.

Address Range Generation: generates address ranges for street centerlines based on their associate addresses.

MRF Abilities demonstrated in this project include:

Ability to develop programs in MicroStation and MGE environment:

  • Use of MDL to develop efficient geoprocessing tools. The software tools developed have the same look and feel as MicroStation, MGE, and Parcel Manager
  • Good understanding of GIS application problems
  • Efficient GIS algorithm design and implementation

Ability to integrate an Oracle database in GIS applications:

  • Design and creation of database tables and relationships (e.g. polygon table, edge table, address table, customer table, etc.)
  • SQL programming for Oracle database manipulation
  • Relationship maintanence between spatial objects and database records