Geographic Information Systems Insights

In 2020 GeoComm worked with the Radcliff Kentucky Police Department, to review the current state of the GIS data being used being utilized at their ECC. This project utilized GeoComm’s proven assess, improve, maintain approach for achieving public safety grade GIS data, ensuring its accuracy for routing emergency response through their CAD system. 

Today public safety GIS data and location information is disparate, inconsistent, and expanding. Public Safety Location Intelligence® from GeoComm provides a new way to get the right location information, on the right map, for the right people, at the right time, in order to respond to emergency calls faster. This article, authored by John Brosowsky, GeoComm Vice President of Innovation, explains why its a crucial element of public safety 9-1-1 and response.

As we look to the future, we are focused on delivery of Public Safety GIS applications and Public Safety GIS Content and Services. Each of these areas will provide executive leadership with Erik Loberg as the Vice President of Public Safety GIS Applications and Jody Sayre as the Vice President of Public Safety GIS Content and Services.

On Tuesday, December 8th, 2020, GeoComm and RapidSOS hosted a webinar titled Advancing Location Intelligence:  Accessing Indoor Maps from RapidSOS Portal. GeoComm's John Brosowsky, Vice President of Innovation and RapidSOS' Karin Marquez, Senior Director of Public Safety sat down to discuss: why now is the right time to equip 9-1-1 call takers and emergency responders with indoor location intelligence, the value indoor maps offer when combined with improved 9-1-1 caller location coordinates and Esri’s industry-leading mapping technology, and how to leverage location intelligence through RapidSOS Portal to create unprecedented situational awareness.

GeoComm is honored to be selected by Texas County, Missouri, the largest land mass county in Missouri, covering almost 1200 square miles, to partner with them to improve their GIS data, achieving public safety grade GIS levels indicating it is ready to properly operate in a NG9-1-1 environment.

GeoComm is excited to announce they have entered into a GIS data maintenance agreement with the Wyoming Highway Patrol (WHP).  The WHP relies on accurate and up-to-date GIS data for their Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) system which is used to route resources to the location of the emergency calls across the state.

“As we take the first steps toward our transition to Next Generation 9-1-1, we are extremely pleased to be working with GeoComm on refining and improving our state’s geospatial data. Their vast experience, knowledge, and success helping multiple other states across the nation complete this process made us confident that they could help us achieve success,” Shelby Johnson, State of Arkansas Geographic Information Officer.

We know that in an emergency every second counts and have spent the last 25 years helping our customers save lives and protect property by providing essential, innovative, location-based solutions to public safety professionals.

Cook County joins a vast network of over 1,500 jurisdictions throughout the country utilizing GeoComm GIS Data Hub to manage their GIS data lifecycle which is a cloud-based solution and the central element of GeoComm’s complete integrated 9-1-1 GIS data workflow process toolset.