With open data and automatic preparation into the GIS of ÖBB
Thanks to the automatic processing and integration of the data into the GIS, ÖBB-Infrastruktur employees have access at all times to the property information from the latest DKM cut-off date data.
axmann created two FME-supported solutions for the Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB) that automatically prepare open data for tasks in the organization’s GIS.
ÖBB employees access central data via a shared, company-wide GIS and use it as support to carry out their daily tasks. In the process of the annual transfer of real estates across Austria into GIS, the focus was on automating this provision (project DKM2GIS). To solve simple routing and supply topics, optimal support should be achieved by providing GIP data (Graph Integration Platform), freely available in Austria, in the GIS (GIP2GIS project).
Solution 1: Automation in real estate collection and provision
At DKM2GIS, existing transformation models were optimized and expanded for automatic execution on FME Flow. Previously time-consuming processes for preparing the properties of thousands of cadastral municipalities have been automated and additional by-products, such as the railway property boundary, have been generated. This will benefit the ÖBB infra:plan application in the future.
Solution 2: Providing GIP data for routing and utility topics
At GIP2GIS, new transformation models were created to extract those that are eligible for motorized vehicles from the extensive GIP data and to integrate these traffic graphs, including turning rules, into an ESRI network dataset. The process starts automatically as soon as the responsible authority makes a new version of the GIP data available online.
Access to information at any time
Due to the automatic preparation and integration of the data into the GIS, ÖBB employees have access to the property information from the latest Digital Cadastral key date data (DKM) at any time and can always answer current questions about routing and supply topics via the network that is automatically generated with the GIP data. By providing the DKM on a daily basis by the Federal Office for Calibration and Measurement (BEV), a shorter interval for the preparation of property data for the GIS could be considered and implemented in the future. The extensive automation of the two processes enables the data to be prepared for the ÖBB-GIS in just a few steps. If problems arise, the responsible employees are automatically informed by email. With the support of axmann, the two very complex processes were able to be converted to automated processes within a very short time. This automation of data preparation processes frees up resources that can be used for other important topics in the organization.
This is what Michael Eder, Information Technology Geoinformation System ÖBB infra, says about the time saving factor:
“Open data, such as the DKM or the road network from the GIP, are an important basis for a wide variety of projects in our GIS. By automating data preparation with FME, we were able to significantly reduce the manual activities that were previously necessary and can therefore make this data available to our colleagues via the internal infra:gis as soon as it is published.”
