The Wildfire Defense Systems project consolidated information from several insurance companies into an Esri ArcGIS geodatabase feature class designed by GCS. Various insurance companies supplied Wildfire Defense Systems with data in spreadsheets, without any definition of standard attributes or rules for data capture (for instance, how many fields are required to capture house number, street name, and street type for an address and what are they named). The first phase for GCS was requirements analysis and design of the attributes and metadata most important to Wildfire Defense Systems to ensure the consolidation would maintain relevant information and present a scheme that was useful to them.