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GeoComm Partners with NextNav to Improve Emergency Response Indoors
GeoComm is pleased to announce a new partnership with NextNav, a leader in z-axis vertical positioning, to enhance floor-aware indoor mapping for E9-1-1. This partnership will dramatically improve geolocation of callers to provide floor-level altitude in multistory buildings in urban areas across the country.
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December 9, 2021
Public Safety Grade GIS Data is Critical for Public Safety Emergency Response Systems
GIS data plays a key role accurate emergency response it important for 9-1-1 to implement Public Safety Grade GIS data. These mission critical life safety systems and applications rely on GIS data to drive emergency response – helping to save lives and protect property. This GIS data must be highly accurate, highly secure, highly available, up-to-date, and commonly accessible to all mission critical life safety applications across 9-1-1 and public safety organizations.
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December 2, 2021
GeoComm Expands Team Dedicated to Enhancing Partner Program Experience
GeoComm, the Public Safety Location Intelligence® leader, continues to grow with the expansion of their partner program, adding Amanda Vanderwerf to coordinate partner program activities. Vanderwerf joins long-time industry veteran Ty Thompson whose primary responsibility is partner relationships and development. Together, they will work to develop and support GeoComm partners.
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November 17, 2021
2021 GIS Day
Today, in honor of 2021 GIS Day, we want to share some interesting facts about our team of dedicated GIS professionals. We appreciate our team working their hardest each day utilizing GIS technology and their GIS expertise to help our customers and thank all of the GIS professionals out there who use the power of GIS to improve lives.
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October 18, 2021
GeoComm Partners with what3words to Provide Enhanced Public Safety Location Intelligence® in GeoComm Maps
GeoComm announces a trailblazing partnership with what3words to provide enhanced emergency response location intelligence in GeoComm Maps. With this integration, GeoComm offers public safety telecommunicators using GeoComm Maps with an innovative tool designed to locate and convey locations using unique combinations of just three words.
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October 14, 2021
GeoComm Earns Esri Partner Network ArcGIS System Ready Specialty Designation
GeoComm, is pleased to announce their recognition by Esri as a Release Ready Specialty Esri Partner Network partner. This designation is awarded to partners who are committed to being early adopters of Esri’s world leading geographic information systems software and are dedicated to incorporating that technology into their offerings.
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October 7, 2021
GeoComm’s Keri Brennan Receives Barbara Hirsch Special Service Award
GeoComm is excited to announce that Keri Brennan, GeoComm Product Manager for Public Safety GIS Content and Services, received the Barbara Hirsch Special Service Award this week during the Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA) 2021 GIS Pro Conference in Baltimore, Maryland. This award, which is presented to individuals or committees who have shown a consummate level of service to URISA, is one of the highest honors to be given by URISA
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September 27, 2021
GeoComm Webinar: Enhance Your Public Safety Location Intelligence® by Utilizing what3words in GeoComm Maps
In an emergency every second counts. GeoComm Maps is a highly available, secure, cloud-native mapping application purpose built to ensure GeoComm’s Public Safety Location Intelligence® Platform, delivers the right location data, to the right people, at the right time. The latest version of GeoComm Maps offers public safety telecommunicators using GeoComm Maps with an innovative tool designed to locate and convey locations using unique combinations of just three words.
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September 16, 2021
GeoComm’s 2021 Intern Team
Throughout 2021 we have welcomed 15 interns to the GeoComm team. Our internship program is designed to ensure that each intern received a uniquely tailored internship experience based on their interests in the industry and areas of study. These interns joined us from across the country and were paired with a dedicated mentor to ensure their internship goals were achieved and that they were empowered to achieve real world experience. We greatly value the effort put forth by each of the interns while at GeoComm and appreciate many of them taking the time to share their experience working with our teams.
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September 2, 2021
GIS Data Assessment – Laying a Foundation for Success
How accurate is the public safety map data in your community? Does your call taker, dispatcher, and first responder have the necessary data during those critical seconds? These are important questions GIS and 9-1-1 teams need to answer. Learn how we can help you lay a foundation for success through a GIS data assessment.
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August 19, 2021
Public Safety Grade GIS Data is the Foundation of Public Safety Location Intelligence®
With Geographic Information Systems (GIS) data playing a key role across E9-1-1, NG9-1-1, ECC and responder tactical mapping systems and applications, and now indoor and vertical 9-1-1 caller location, it has become an imperative for 9-1-1 to implement Public Safety Grade GIS data. These mission critical life safety systems and applications rely on GIS data to drive emergency response – helping to save lives and protect property. This GIS data must be highly accurate, highly secure, highly available, up-to-date, and commonly accessible to all mission critical life safety applications across 9-1-1 and public safety organizations.