What is underground utility mapping versus locating?

Locating finds a service. Mapping puts classified features into a coordinated spatial environment with quality level, confidence and files the next drawing can use.

Do you map to AS 5488 in Adelaide?

Yes. Quality level is assigned feature by feature. Geophysical detection is not passed off as exposed verification.

Mapped subsurface utilities in an integrated 3D site model, Adelaide

Adelaide · Mapping

Underground utility mapping in Adelaide.

Not a collage of marks. A map the next person on the job can inherit. Based in Adelaide.

Mapped utilities as a coordinated model in Adelaide — classified features, depths, quality levels, files the next drawing can open. Locating finds a line. This page is the map.

Mapping is the job. Locating is a method.

Utility mapping means the subsurface is captured, classified and placed in a coordinated environment — communications, drainage, electrical, water, sewer, gas, unknown. Each feature carries a quality level and a confidence. Gaps are part of the map.

Aus-OMI builds that map from multiarray GPR, electromagnetic locating and reality capture, then issues KML, 3D and a PDF readout. Design can use it. So can the people who open the ground.

AS 5488, without collapsing the numbers

Quality level is the evidence source: records, surface correlation, geophysical detection, exposed verification. Assigned feature by feature.

We do not print QL-A on a GPR pick and call it done. Interpretation confidence and positioning accuracy sit beside it. One is never substituted for another.

What the map is for

Pre-construction and early design. Precincts and corridors before freeze. Brownfield sites with a buried past. Asset owners who need a reusable spatial package, not a PDF they cannot open in CAD.

Where it is used

Precinct and corridor mapping before design freeze
Brownfield sites with a buried past
Asset owners who need KML, 3D and a reusable spatial package — not only a PDF

Limits we will say out loud

A map is as good as the coverage. Reduced-quality zones stay on the drawing.
Unknowns remain unknowns until they are exposed or better evidenced.

Questions

Before you brief us.

What is underground utility mapping versus locating?: Locating finds a service. Mapping puts classified features into a coordinated spatial environment with quality level, confidence and files the next drawing can use.
Do you map to AS 5488 in Adelaide?: Yes. Quality level is assigned feature by feature. Geophysical detection is not passed off as exposed verification.

Where this sits

Equipment is how we get there. The product is a better understanding of the site before you excavate, design or decide.

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