ProjectWise Geospatial gives spatial context to Municipal Products Group product hydraulic models in their original form. An interactive map-based interface allows users to navigate and retrieve content based upon location. The environment includes integrated map management, dynamic coordinate system support, and spatial indexing tools.

ProjectWise Geospatial supports the creation of named spatial reference systems (SRSs) for 2D or 3D cartesian coordinate systems, automatic transformations between SRSs, creation of Open GIS format geometries, definition of spatial locations, association of documents and folders with spatial locations, and the definition of spatial criteria for document searching.

A spatial location is the combination of a geometry for a hydraulic model plus a designated SRS. It provides a universal mechanism for graphically relating ProjectWise documents and folders.

The ProjectWise administrator can assign background maps to folders, against which the contained documents or hydraulic models will be registered and displayed. For documents such as Municipal Products Group product hydraulic models, ProjectWise Geospatial can automatically retrieve the embedded spatial location. For documents that are nonspatial, the document can simply inherit the location of the folder into which it is inserted, or users can explicitly assign a location, either by typing in coordinates, or by drawing them.

Each document is indexed to a universal coordinate system or SRS, however, the originating coordinate system of each document is also preserved. This enables search of documents across the boundary of different geographic, coordinate, or engineering coordinate systems.

Custom geospatial views can be defined to display documents with symbology mapped to arbitrary document properties such as author, time, and workflow state.

For a complete description of how to work with ProjectWise Geospatial, for example how to add background maps and coordinate systems, see the ProjectWise Geospatial Explorer Guide and the ProjectWise Geospatial Administrator Guide.