could be a visual indicator displayed on the field laptop workstation 3 in yet another embodiment the field unit vehicle 12 will report back its current position to the central office and an appropriate alarm could be issued there as well fig7 describes a process through which the maintenance of geographically distributed assets can be efficiently achieved as shown in fig7 the process begins at step s 20 where a fault indication has been received fault indication can be accomplished through inspection outage reports from customers or through an automated means such as an annunciator once the fault indication has been received the process proceeds to step s 21 where the location of the fault is determined the tamis application software 21 and the geographic information system 22 are used to provide a sub meter gps location of the location of the fault once the fault location has been determined the process proceeds to steps s 22 and s 23 at step s 22 a work order is generated that describes the problem encountered as well as the asset needing repair in step s 23 routing information is determined based on the fault location identified in step s 21 and using the process described in fig6 above once a work order and routing information has been generated the process proceeds to step s 24.