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