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Allow items to be created requiring only two criteria. Geometry and USRN reference. The item is first located on map and then the user can click the nearest NSG section to obtain the USRN. This is to replace the need to tie items to network sections giving greater flexibility in network management.
Hi, thanks for the suggestion. I think there is definitely a use case for the quick capture of assets in Alloy like this. There are a couple of issues to consider:
What if the Item has mandatory attributes? These need to be populated.
In Alloy you can also have multiple networks in a single system.
We'd need to allow you to specify what to do in these cases. Out of interest, what items are you capturing in your example?
We've looked at this in some detail as we use Ordnance Survey data to build our representations of the highways network for safety inspections. We ended up using the OS MasterMap Roads and Paths products as the ESU (elementary street unit) provided more granular detail that the NSG and USRN's on their own. The ESU's also can be joined together to form USRN's using the 'forms part of' table from the OS. The thinking was that you could have the best of both worlds. Further research after that point led us to consider the OS Topographical area dataset because the TOID's in that can also be linked to the ESU's within MasterMap and therefore to the USRN's, with the added benefit of defining roads as polygons rather than line data. Still working on a solution though.
By only two criteria I mean to plot the item. Attribute recording would be another step.
I'm thinking of assets, defects and customer service requests for this example.
If the USRN is collected in the first instance you should then be able to link to other networks if needed for data extrapolation and interrogation in data explorer.