Latest GeoComm News & Educational Resources

Webster County, Mississippi Selects GeoComm Dispatch Map For New Dispatch Mapping Software

When there is an emergency, time is everything. That is why 9-1-1 centers are always working to improve emergency response times. Webster County, Mississippi was working to do just that when they installed GeoComm Dispatch Map.

Teamwork Makes the Dream Work Article

Our Teamwork makes the Dream Work article sets a baseline for understanding the importance of GIS in NG9-1-1 and outlines why collaboration between GIS and Public Safety staff is critical.

GeoComm Adds to Product Management Team, Expands Industry Leadership in Geospatial Call Routing

GeoComm is pleased to announce the addition of Lisa Henderson as the Senior Product Manager for Next Generation 9-1-1 (NG9-1-1) Core Solutions focusing specifically on the geospatial solutions needed in a NG9-1-1 Environment.

GeoComm Secures Spot on HGACBuy Contract Through 2020

GeoComm is pleased to announce their public safety GIS software and services have been accepted onto the Houston Area Council Buy (HGACBuy) contract.  HGACBuy is an established contract for goods and services dedicated to helping governments across the country improve the efficiency of their procurement process.

2019 Texas DIR Contract and Pricing

GeoComm, a leading provider of geographic information and communication systems, has been awarded a Texas Department of Information Resources (DIR) contract DIR-TSO-3441 for GeoComm’s public safety software.

Innovation Spotlight ~ Smarter Security Provided Through Indoor Maps and Sensor Feeds

Linn County, Oregon

In 2016 Linn County, Oregon began the process of upgrading their Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) system. After being in a tabular CAD world for 28 years, the new CAD system was now map-centric, and reliant on the GIS data. This made it challenging to understand the impact GIS data would have as they moved into this new system. Not long after go-live in April 2017, it became evident that the address exceptions and accommodations built into the previous tabular CAD did not necessarily exist in the GIS date now in place, and this was causing some challenges. Linn County decided the quality of their GIS data needed to be assessed to identify and correct the issues they were seeing, and improve the GIS data in use in their new CAD system.

State of Iowa

This winter marks four years since the State of Iowa and GeoComm began working together to assess, improve, and maintain GIS data throughout the state in preparation for Next Generation 9-1-1 (NG9-1-1).

GeoComm Reaches Important Milestone, Celebrates Twenty Year Parntership with ESRI

GeoComm is excited to have reached an important twenty years of a dedicated partnership milestone with Esri. This partnership demonstrates two decades of commitment to designing, developing, and leveraging the Esri ArcGIS software platform in our public safety GIS applications.

Vertical and Indoor 9-1-1 Location Mapping

Today more and more people rely on mobile phones as their primary phone service and are disconnecting wireline service altogether.  As a result, more 9-1-1 calls are being placed from mobile phones than ever before, including from inside buildings where E9-1-1 mobile phone location technology does not work very well.  Thanks to new FCC rules on this topic, wireless carriers and major industry technology players are now working to quickly address this issue.