旧金山市的配水部门在1998年秋天完成了一个GISS示范项目。这项初步研究评估了使用ArcView GIS数字化和存储有关水管、阀门、消防栓和服务连接的信息的能力。这项工作需要保持信息的最新性和准确性，并可供水务部门的现场和办公室人员使用。目前，这些更改、变更或添加都是手工绘制到30个单独的关卡中的； 大多数门户网站并不是完全最新的。在紧急情况、灾难、主要休息和日常维护期间及之后，需要使用网关中的信息。该试点项目被认为是有价值的，将1200英里长的管道和相关阀门、排污口、消防栓和压力区电脑化为数字GIS格式的工程，目前正进入建设的最后阶段。进行了用户需求评估，以了解Gatebook的使用过程，并确定Gatebook自动化需要完成哪些工作。 GIS指导委员会包括工程、管理信息系统、运营和项目管理学科的门卫和人员。映射标准和查询逻辑是在项目早期建立的。使用ArcView的Avenue语言开发了图形用户界面（GUI），以整合数据库开发和用户需求评估期间确定的功能。GUI中开发了几个按钮和工具来实现不同的功能。该流程具有灵活性，允许Gatement在现场包含文本、图像、音频和视频文件。 当通讯录完全数字化时，平板显示器、计算机和打印机将安装在通讯车上，现场操作人员将能够持续获取最新信息。这一努力最终将与监控和数据采集（SCADA）和CITYDealDealSuffic Stor模型相结合，用于实时信息的液压建模，使旧金山水部门进入智能管道领域。包括数字。

The City of San Francisco's Water Distribution Division completed a GISdemonstration project in Fall of 1998. This pilot study evaluated the capabilityof using ArcView GIS to digitize and store information about the water pipelines,valves, hydrants, and service connections. This effort is needed to keep theinformation current and accurate and available to field and office personnel inthe Water Department. Currently, the changes, alternations, or additions aredrawn into the thirty individual Gatebooks by hand; most Gatebooks are notcompletely up-to-date. The information in the Gatebooks is needed during andafter emergencies, disasters, main breaks, and routine maintenance. The pilotproject was found to have merit, and the computerization of the 1200 miles ofpipelines and associated valves, blow-offs, hydrants and pressure zones intodigital GIS format is now entering its final phase of construction. A user-needsassessment was performed to understand the Gatebook use process and to determinewhat needs to be accomplished with the Gatebook automation. The GIS steeringcommittee has included Gatemen and personnel from engineering, managementinformation systems, operations, and project management disciplines. The mappingstandards and query logic were established early in the project. A Graphical UserInterface (GUI) has been developed using ArcView's Avenue language to incorporatedatabase developments and functions identified during the user-needs assessment.Several buttons and tools have been developed in the GUI to achieve differentfunctions. Flexibility has been built into the process to allow for the Gatemento include text, images, audio, and video files when they are in the field. Whenthe Gatebook is fully digitized, flat panel monitors, computers, and printerswill be installed in the Gatemen's trucks and the field operations will havecontinual access to the most current information. The effort will ultimately belinked with supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) and the CityDistribution Division's Stoner model which is used for hydraulic modeling forreal time information, bringing the San Francisco Water Department into the worldof smart pipes. Includes figures.