LAKE REGION ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE

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LAKE REGION ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE
Ed Schoon, CAD/GIS Technician
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• LREC operates and maintains
• approximately 5500 miles of line
• 29 substations
• approximately 25,000 accounts

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Where in the world we are
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Brief History of GIS _at_ LREC

• 1986 - digital mapping began
• AutoCAD 2.x
• 286 class computer
• plat book maps

• 1995 - GIS system selected
• Central Area Data Processors, St. Louis, MO
  (CADP) now called National Information Solutions
  Coop (NISC)

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Where we are today

• GIS _at_ LREC

• ESRI based GIS (ArcEditor)
• Loading and Connecting GPS Data
• Mobile units in Trucks (need better viewer)
• Maintaining Map from completed work orders
• Digital Staking Sheet, USG-Adeline

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Where we are today
GPS _at_ LREC
3 Trimble Pathfinder Pro/XR GPS units 2 Trimble
Pathfinder Pro/XT GPS units Pathfinder Office
TerraSync Software Base station files from Clay
County, MN and from Itasca GPS Base Station
Coop Used for Easement descriptions Inventory/map
ping/joint use Solving service area boundary
questions
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Where we are today
DATA _at_ LREC
County address points, roads, parcels,
driveways State waters, transportation, parks,
PLSS, telephone exchanges Fed USGS Quads,
USDA/NAIP Air photos Private USG-transmission,
Osmose-pole inspection
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Where to tomorrow??

• Projection Screen system in Operations Center

• Live links to OMS, CIS, AMR, SCADA,etc.

• More mobile units in vehicles

• Automated vehicle location (AVL)

• More GPS (maybe on the cable plow??)

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SOME OF OUR PARTNERS
Land Management Information Center
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http//gis.pinetoprairie.org/
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Questions??
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THANK YOU
Please feel free to contact me with any questions
or suggestions.
Ed Schoon, CAD/GIS Technician Lake Region
Electric Cooperative 1401 S Broadway, PO Box
643 Pelican Rapids, MN 56572 218-863-1171
x4408 eschoon_at_lrec.coop