"GPS-GIS-Mapping"
Spot-on HELP; Ambulance Dispatch Stats Target Ways to Reduce Response Time
February 28, 2012To the untrained eye, the graph projected on the wall in Albuquerque Ambulance Service headquarters looks like a jumble of acronyms and multi-colored lines. To Kurt Krumperman, executive director of Albuquerque Ambulance Service, it looks like success.
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February 3, 2012Mike Shannon of the Spokane County 911 emergency system was working on a north Spokane street on Thursday, collecting geo-positioning data for the homes there. His work is part of an ongoing upgrade of the 911 communications system.
Read full articleGIS Finds Its Way to the Cloud
September 15, 2011Cloud computing furnishes technological capabilities – commonly maintained off-premise that are delivered on demand as a service via the Internet. American Sentinel University Professor Gabriel Schmidbauer says cloud computing makes setting up the GIS system simpler, because the system is built into the servers.
Read full articleGeoComm Becomes One of Six Worldwide ESRI Platinum Partner
March 10, 2011St. Cloud, Minn., March 8, 2011 — GeoComm is pleased to announce they have received Platinum Tier Partnership level with Environmental Systems Research Institute. This partnership recognizes GeoComm’s commitment for providing public safety 9-1-1 solutions and integrating them with GIS and wireless communications.
Read full articleiPhone Theft Suspects Tripped Up by GPS App
February 22, 2011Chicago — Ed Scanlan used his iPhone to fight back against the guys who allegedly mugged him. His secret weapon: a computer service that allows iPhone users to find their phones using GPS technology.
Read full articleCity, County Eye $400K System amid Tough Fiscal Climate
January 25, 2011Santa Fe — The city’s fire and police chiefs want to raid a reserve fund to buy mapping software they say would help get emergency vehicles to the scene faster. If their proposal manages to win approval in this time of tight budgets, they say the days of police officers and ambulance crews flipping though map books while responding to calls could be history.
Read full articleWhispering Pines: Where the Streets Have No Name
January 6, 2011Manchester, N.H. — Today Sandra Glennie and hundreds of other residents of Whispering Pines Mobile Home Village were supposed to be coming home to new street names and ZIP codes. Whispering Pines is a maze of like-sounding street names — Lane 3B, Lane 3C — winding across the line between Derry and Londonderry.
Read full article9-1-1 Board to Hire Mapping Expert
December 30, 2010Shelby County, Tenn. — Starting some time next year, a company is expected to start making a computerized map of all the roads, streets, byways and highways of Shelby County.
Read full articleBullBerry Systems Inc. Provides Geospatial Routing Technologies for Next Generation 9-1-1
December 8, 2010Bryant, Texas — BullBerry Systems Inc. (BBSI), a 9-1-1 software and GIS data services company, recently participated in the 3rd…
Read full articleTypo Led 9-1-1 Medics to Wrong Address
June 17, 2010A 9-1-1 operator had the correct address for a call about a dying infant, but one missed keystroke caused Allegheny County’s (Pa.) computer dispatch system to send paramedics to the wrong address.
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