State of Minnesota

To successfully implement geospatial call routing, it takes significant coordination with local data providers to aggregate the National Emergency Number Association (NENA) required datasets which consist of Address Points, Road Centerlines, PSAP Boundaries, Emergency Service Boundaries (Law Enforcement, Fire and Emergency Medical Services) and related Provisioning Boundaries. NENA has released and continues to author new standards for geospatial data supporting NG9-1-1. Minnesota will use these standards as a statewide baseline and provision the data into the State’s Next Generation Core Services (NGCS).

1Spatial is providing implementation and training services for 1Integrate and 1Data Gateway in support of Minnesota’s NG9-1-1 buildout. The solution will provide tools to validate data maintained by the State based on the NENA Standard for NG9-1-1 GIS Data Model requirements, along with other NG9-1-1 geospatial recommendations.

The automated validation process will not only serve the needs of the State, but will also support the State’s agency partners by providing an easy-to-use portal for them to validate their data and receive spatial reports back immediately following validation. This will help pinpoint where the data appears to violate the NENA requirements in order to drive agency partners to the specific location and rule violation to make the clean-up process much easier and much more efficient.

1Spatial’s Public Safety NG9-1-1 Enterprise Solution provides a user-friendly data validation portal that enables state and
local agencies to assess their data’s readiness for NG9-1-1 and downloadable reports that assist in the correction of any non-conformances. The reports are provided back in the same format as the input data, so the submitter can easily bring the report into their system of choice and review the precise locations of data issues, making clean-up much more efficient, saving time
and money.

NENA has released and continues to author new standards for geospatial data supporting NG9-1-1. 1Spatial is monitoring such changes to ensure their NG9-1-1 rules pack is up to date with any new confirmed requirements. Minnesota will use these standards as a state-wide baseline and provision the data into the State’s Next Generation Core Services (NGCS).