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Determine Necessary Feature Classes and Attributes

    The industry model has a fixed schema that probably will not match your existing data exactly. During the import process, you map your feature classes and attributes to those in the model. In the case of DWG data, you indicate which objects will become part of the existing feature classes, and how the attributes for those objects are stored and defined.

    Assess and Clean the Data

    Before you go through the import process, you must make sure that the existing data is consistent and clean. Without this step, the import process will result in incomplete and inaccurate data.

    Print or Export a Data Model Description Report

    Once the data is clean, examine the industry model schema against your existing data to determine which feature classes and attributes are needed.

    Print a Data Model Description report to get a complete overview about topics, feature classes, and attributes in the industry model.

    Explanations of the different feature classes are available in the module documentation.

    Module Data Model Description
    Water

    Refer to the Water Data Model topic in the Infrastructure Map Server Users Guide

    Wastewater

    Refer to the Wastewater Data Model topic in the Infrastructure Map Server Users Guide

    Electric North America

    Refer to the Electric NA Data Model topic in the Infrastructure Map Server Users Guide

    Electric Central Europe

    Refer to the Electric CE Data Model topic in the Infrastructure Map Server Users Guide

    Gas (available for SQL Server and file-based industry models only

    Refer to the Gas Data Model topic in the Infrastructure Map Server Users Guide

    Create Any Needed Feature Classes and Attributes

    Create a data mapping that compares your original data with the data model description. Determine whether you need to create new feature classes and whether any existing feature classes will require custom attributes. For example, your original data may include pipes. The enterprise industry model has matching pipe feature classes. However, your original data may specify information about pipes that does not match any of the attributes in the target pipe feature classes. To ensure that the information stored in your original data migrates properly to the enterprise industry model, you must add the missing attributes to the appropriate feature classes.

    Steps in this workflow: