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(9) <br />CITY OF SANTA ANA <br />Drawing Type <br />Drawings <br />BT <br />Bike Trails <br />FA <br />Facilities & Structures <br />Regional Transportation Center <br />FS <br />Fire Stations <br />PL <br />Parking Lots <br />PS <br />Parks and Schools <br />SD <br />Storm Drains & Catch Basins <br />SE <br />Sewer Improvements <br />SL <br />Street Lighting <br />ST <br />Street Improvements, including utilities <br />Street Improvements by designated Tracts <br />TF <br />Signing and Striping <br />Traffic Control Plans <br />Traffic Signal Improvements <br />Traffic Signal Cabinet Drawings <br />WA <br />Water Improvements <br />• The system was integrated with an externally hosted SAAS GIS application called <br />GovClarity.This allows users to select a drawing type and draw a box on a map to select the <br />streets they want. The integration passes a URL with Lat/Long coordinates to the EDMS <br />website and it parses that to display the corresponding drawings by doing a SQL Server <br />spatial search to return only the drawings that are within the bounding box. <br />The system was completed in 2007. At some point, after the completion of the project, it was observed <br />that the Laserfiche system wasn't able to create a PDF of a 30-page Architectural E-Size Drawing <br />without grinding to a crawl. PWA contracted Laserfiche to develop a plug-in for Laserfiche that could <br />generate the PDF in advance, so when a user clicked on the PDF button in WebLink, it would fetch <br />the already -created PDF instead of having to generate a new one. In 2018, the custom plug-in was <br />rewritten as a Laserfiche Workflow to be compatible with the Laserfiche Server upgrade. <br />In 2013 PWA began a project to update the web -based front end to a more responsive HTML5 format. <br />That project was completed in 2015 and the Consultant contract ended. While the system is still <br />functional today, there have been no updates or maintenance performed on the system since the <br />release of the HTML5 version. In 2018, the PWA servers were virtualized and put into the City's main <br />server room. <br />In addition to the engineering drawings, the City has various "ROW map books" that were scanned and <br />converted to images in the early 2000s. The pages in the ROW map books reference various areas of <br />the city where non-traditional transfer of land ownership occurred. This could be a corner cut, a utility <br />easement, right-of-way, or other type of deed recording. <br />After the books were scanned, a GIS layer was created that referenced the geographic boundaries <br />of each scanned image. Each polygon within the GIS layer is attributed with the following <br />information: <br />• BOOK <br />• PAGE <br />• ROW_MAP (combination of book and page) <br />• URL (This points to the Laserfiche document, which is just the scanned image of the book page) <br />2 <br />