What's New, November 26

Brownbag today following Dennis's Van Buren Interpretive Dance.  Topics:

• CalTrans Superelevation in InRoads
• Preference Management update
• Interest Group/Steering Committee Info and Invite

New InRoads Workflows and ScreenCams

• Building Retaining Walls and
• CalTrans Superelevation

Superelevation Tables are setup for CalTrans English

Preference Management

In order for InRoads Preferences to be well managed (minimizing wasted effort) the process needs to be easy and well-coordinated throughout the team.  There are a number of tasks that have to be simple, easy and reliable:

1. The user must be able to easily segregate his "good mutations."
2. Users must be able to upgrade to the latest standards without losing his or her "good mutations."
3. Everyone must understand the simple processes to share corrections and updates to the standards and put their good mutations into the continually-updated standards file.

Current Status (11/26/07)

I've finally figured out the XSL/T to segregate the user changes easily and reliably.

I should be able to build and deliver an end-user front-end (Windows program) to "wrap" the above process in a couple of hours of programming.

I still have to build the "stash merger" to allow users to put their personal and project customizations into the latest standards file.  I think I'm over the hump on the XSL/T, the bulk of the time will be building the front-end as there is some logic options (specifically: ensuring well-formedness; preventing unwanted clobbering and providing options on the overwrites...).

I should be able to incorporate previous updates from the group very soon.

Setting up regular "Interest Group" meetings (no fluff, all buff: no more than 15 minutes a pop)

• MicroStation Standards
• Levels
  • Designing the Enhanced Productivity Superset (beyond CalTrans 63)
  • Managing the Superset
    • A second .dgnlib for the extra level attributes
  • Conversion Procedures
• Plotting
  • making sure plotting works (and is managed) for
    • Client Deliverables
    • Our Enhanced Productivity Superset
• InRoads Standards
• Engineering Improvement/Tools/QC
• What else?

Status Chart and Goal List

Yesterday's News

• October 25
• October 10