[gis_info] FW: FYI: PG&E's GIS faulted in San Bruno Explosion

[Bob Harmon]

(obtained from Washington GIS listserv...)
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  From: Lorri Peltz-Lewis [lpeltzlewis at fs.fed.us]
  Sent: 02/17/2011 09:17 AM PST
  To: fgc3 at usgs.gov
  Subject: FYI: PG&E's GIS faulted in San Bruno Explosion


FYI-
This article in last Sunday's San Francisco Chronicle points to PG&E's inadequate GIS as one problem that led to the San Bruno explosion that killed 8 people. Here are some quotes from the article:

"Experts interviewed by The Chronicle said the problems weren't with the software but with data entry and the implementation of the ESRI programs by PG&E and its contractors."

"Reiydelle said it didn't take long on the job for him to find out that the upgrade project and the entire GIS<http://topics.sfgate.com/topics/Geographic_information_system> system had been a mess for a long time. He said only 70 percent of the data in the GIS database are accurate and that overall, it is "a really dangerously bad project." "

The entire article is here:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/02/13/MNAC1HLG95.DTL



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