Map positioning information

Positioning information is the geographical coordinate data that is used to determine the location of a work order and add a position marker to the map. When a work order in the enterprise system contains positioning information, such as a service address, that information is provided to the IBM® Maximo® Technician and IBM Maximo Inspector apps when the work order is downloaded. If work orders in the enterprise system do not have positioning information, you need to configure the information on the enterprise system.

Coordinates or work order positioning information is downloaded from the map service provider to the enterprise system environment.

Directions and a route to work orders on the mobile worker's current work list are available when the mobile device is configured with a map service provider.

If your enterprise system includes IBM Maximo Spatial Asset Management, positioning information is obtained from work order objects that are linked to a map feature. If Maximo Spatial Asset Management is not in your environment, positioning information is obtained by using non-linked objects. A non-linked object is a work order object that is not linked to a map feature. Non-linked objects therefore provide static geographic coordinate data that you must manually add and store in the service address object. Work order objects that can contain positioning information are work order, service address, asset, and location.

When Maximo Spatial Asset Management is available, positioning information is obtained by using linked objects. A linked object is an object in a work order that is linked to a map feature in the designated GIS. A linked object can be the work order object itself, or the associated service address, asset, or location. The link between the object and the map feature enables the auto-locate function to dynamically obtain geographic coordinate data from the GIS when the cron task runs.

If you do not use Maximo Spatial Asset Management, positioning information comes from static geographic coordinate data that is added and stored in the service address object. The static geographic coordinate data must be manually added into the Service Address application in Maximo Asset Management. The static geographic coordinate data can also be bulk loaded or migrated into the Integration Framework application in Maximo Asset Management.

For offline Esri maps, you need to set up the TPK files for the geographic areas of your organization's work orders. The service address coordinate system must match the coordinate system that is used to create the offline map.

The auto-locate function determines the geographical location of a record by processing the available positioning information in a defined sequence. The sequence is work order linked object, work order X/Y coordinates, work order linked service address, work order service address X/Y coordinates, work order linked asset, work order asset X/Y coordinates, work order linked location, and work order location X/Y coordinates.

You schedule the automatic location of work orders by using the cron task, WoAutoLocateCronTask.