State of Georgia

Government

The State of Georgia

Implementation of a statewide emergency management system through aggregation of geospatial data layers from numerous local government entities to support Next Generation 9-1-1 (NG9-1-1) requirements for geospatial based call routing.

Public Safety NG9-1-1 Enterprise Solution that establishes an automated NG9-1-1 workflow for data validation and integration to support the state-wide build-out.

In the past, demands on local data did not mean life or death.
With NG9-1-1, that is changing! Neither the state nor local
governments have the data or processes needed:

• Some data is missing entirely, most is incomplete
• Existing data was not built to a common standard, making it impossible to merge with other data
• Lack of efficient maintenance processes so data is often out-of-date
• No shared/common data validation tools
• Little coordination between jurisdictions resulting in inconsistency along shared borders
• Resource scarcity

The Georgia Geospatial Information Office is implementing
1Spatial’s Public Safety NG9-1-1 Enterprise Solution for all state
and local governments (including contractors), which provides
the following benefits:

• Clearly demarcates gaps, overlaps, and incomplete data
• Converts local data to the Georgia Geospatial Data Standard for NG9-1-1 (Standard)
• Precisely pinpoints problems/errors, within and between jurisdictions
• Consistently measures progress over time as improvements are made
• Provides a secure warehouse for all data to live and be served to the ESInet
• Provides a common platform for efficient data rollups, from Georgia’s 700+ cities and counties, to a state scale
• Enable continuous, secure, and consistent updates, realizing significant economies of scale

The 1Spatial implementation tells the contributor how prepared their data is to enable NG9-1-1 locally—and if problems are found, it will report which exact 9-1-1 rules are being broken - saving local staff hundreds of hours of laborious work, combing through millions of map-based data features.
The implementation follows a 5 step process including:
1. SUBMIT: Upload the contributor data to the tools ‘as-is’ and in its native format for conversion to GA NG9-1-1 Standard.
2. VALIDATE: The tools run the data through automated tests, each designed to ensure compliance with the required rules of NG9-1-1.
3. REPORT: The tools generate a Spatial Report identifying
potential problems with the data which can then be downloaded by the contributor in GA Standard Format.
4. EDIT: Using the Report within their GIS system of choice, the contributor then reviews the areas in the data that need to be fixed or changed.
5. RESUBMIT: Continue to resubmit your data after each
round of edits, until the data is ‘NG9-1-1 ready’.

After the process is complete, data is then available for use by
all stakeholders.