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A Simple RHSC Facility FIRST Portal is based on the ESRI sample Campus Viewer and demonstrates some of the basic functionality of a GIS, geospatial server, and web clients. The geodatabase design is well developed and provides a quick start to setting up a facility information system.
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Under the hood, the following are system features:Â
1) Windows Server running Internet Information Server
2) ESRI ArcGIS Server attached to a Geodatabase
3) inter-active 3DÂ Facility Model
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Client-Server Functionality:
1) Database search listing query results in a table and performs an  “Identify” on spatial features which are highlighted in the 2d map view.
2) Table View of many records, when clicked, “Identify” specific space, zooms and pans to the linked feature in 2d map and 3d Views.
3) Within the 3D View, Building structures are translucent, and depending on the Floor Level, only one level of many levels are represented in 3D and 2D allowing the user to more easily navigate within a complex 3D scene.
4) External Data, demonstrates locations of “Events” shown within the 2D and 3D views.

The data extracted from a RHSC web site is a gross estimation of the leaseable space. Refinements to the system would convert architectural documents representing significant more details to include walls, columns, and passage details. Fixed assets will also be identified and linked to aspatial attributes.
Subsequent design iterations are identifing important application areas as in this example:
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As you may realize, these client-side examples demonstrate considerable complexity and expose much of the business operation and functions required by facility managers and security. The entire industry, using web 2.0 or RIA technologies, is looking for ways to expose the business capability, hide much of the complexity, provide an intutive work flow, while integrating maps, video, images, charts, graphs, tables, data, access multiple web services, and enforce security. The following is our example of this technology:
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The previous examples lay a ground work which propose to use your enterprise information which will become a very important strategic information source that will explicitly expose hidden details as we move into more advanced iterations.Â
Our past work examples will help show some additional capabilities we bring to the table. The Station Characterization Application is a web application which shows the proposed transit guideway, urban corridors, and station locations. It also links to our 5 minute video stream which is a 3D animation of the Honolulu transit urban corridor along the proposed 21 mile guideway.

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 When clicking on one of the stations it brings up Image gallerys and interactive 3d views.

The 3D view is clipped for just the immediate vicinity but allows the user to circle around the station.

To link these conceptual views back to the EIS, we represent the plan view extracted from the EIS.

Path and Network Tracing

Network tracing provides a means to find assets along a linear features. The above example is from the Honolulu Storm Water Quality Control Project. A path tracing provides away to find routes to an asset or resource in multiple level buildings. This great example was created by ESRI for the San Diego User Conference:

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The TerraCotta-POC represents our work developing 3D prototypes designed for working with 3D geospatial urban and facility information.