Pretend for a moment that you're an engineer at a large telecommunications company and you've been notified that there's been a break in service that affects 12 square miles of the city. You need to examine the landline network for the most likely location of the break. Unfortunately, your only recourse is to examine the hundreds of paper drawings showing the network for the area. The drawings are to scale (tied to geography), so devices are crowded together and become almost indecipherable where the density of housing is high. Furthermore, some of the drawings are out of date. This was the type of problem that confronted engineers at Qatar Telecommunications (Qtel) until February of this year.
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GIS Weekly Magazine
Susan Smith
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Look for the next issue of GIS Weekly Magazine on May 28, 2012.
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