ABSTRACT
The use of geospatial technology in utilities-gas, electric, water and wastewater, pipeline, and telecommunications organizations-has a well-established history. A groundbreaking experiment between what was then called Public Service Company of Colorado and IBM in the late 1960s is considered the genesis of the discipline that came to be called automated mapping/facility management, or AM/FM. Dubbed the “Cheyenne Project” because of its trial site in the Wyoming service territory, the success of this effort spurred additional activity and attracted entrepreneurial individuals to establish private consultancies to service growing demand for this revolutionary approach. Utilities of all types would embrace the technology to drive their network-related business applications.
