Southern California Gas Company NASA Modeling Pilot Project

Southern California Gas Company used 4,804 NASA files (MicroStation DGN format) to represent the pipeline network. The network data and a group of customer loaded information were needed in Stoner, a pipeline modeling software, but in a different format. MRF was awarded this project to automate the preparation of input files for the Stoner system. Major tasks of the project included:

• Development of a new pipeline network data model for NASA data in the GeoMedia Pro environment
• Migration of NASA data into the GeoMedia Pro environment
• Development of a data validation program to find the data problems
• Use of MRF Clean to clean the network
• Development of software tools to associate text with geographical features
• Development of software tools to trace tags and transfer them into attribute columns
• Development of software tools to load features and their corresponding attributes.

MRF’s programming capability and GIS knowledge are demonstrated in this project.