Indoor Mapping
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September 29, 2023
Indoor Maps Pilot Project Completed in Burt and Cuming County, Nebraska
GeoComm, provider of Public Safety Location Intelligence®, has completed a pilot project with the Burt County Sheriff’s Office and Cuming County E911 Dispatch in Nebraska to integrate GIS-based indoor maps for one school in each county into their GeoComm Dispatch Map software.
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September 7, 2023
Team Spotlight
GeoComm’s team of industry experts are dedicated to helping public safety agencies across the United States utilize this important and valuable piece of Public Safety Location Intelligence® to enhance their emergency response situational awareness. Meet GeoComm’s team of indoor location experts.
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June 28, 2023
Iowa Critical Incident Mapping (CIM) Project
GeoComm School Safety is delivering the Iowa critical incident mapping (CIM) solution for planning and responding to emergencies inside schools by providing detailed indoor maps of schools and surrounding grounds.
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March 6, 2023
GeoComm and Esri Canada collaborate on indoor mapping capabilities for better 9-1-1 emergency response
GeoComm, provider of Public Safety Location Intelligence®, and Esri Canada, a provider of geographic information system (GIS) solutions, have introduced a proof-of concept (PoC) solution that improves locating 9-1-1 callers inside buildings during an emergency event. The solution, unveiled at the Esri Partner Conference on March 6, 2023 in Palm Springs, California, aims to solve the challenges of identifying the specific locations of people, assets, and events that are indoors and commonly undetectable to emergency services personnel.
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February 21, 2023
GeoComm Announces Early Access Program for Vertical Location Content
GeoComm, provider of Public Safety Location Intelligence®, is announcing the early release of GeoComm Vertical Location Content, an extension of GeoComm Vertical Location Services which enhances raw z-axis 9-1-1 caller location data by making it actionable.
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January 31, 2023
Life-Saving Z-Axis Data in the Emergency Communication Center
When a 9-1-1 call is placed, the caller’s location is a primary piece of information that dispatchers need to deploy emergency response personnel. Where is the caller located? What do their surroundings look like? Could something about that location be an obstacle or even hazardous to first responders?
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November 16, 2022
GeoComm Vertical Location Services Delivers Actionable Z-Axis Data for Public Safety Partners
GeoComm, provider of Public Safety Location Intelligence®, is announcing the general availability of GeoComm Vertical Location Services, building upon the early adopter program that was announced in August 2022. GeoComm Vertical Location Services is a web API which converts raw positioning measurements from 9-1-1 callers’ cell phones into dispatchable locations and is available to authorized vendors who serve the public safety industry.
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October 20, 2022
GeoComm Webinar: What is Dispatchable Location?
Emergency Communication Centers (ECCs) are now receiving raw z-axis position measurements of cell phones during 9-1-1 calls. GeoComm Vertical Location Services and Indoor Maps can convert these raw measurements into actionable dispatchable locations for 9-1-1 telecommunicators, dispatchers, and emergency responders.
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July 21, 2022
GeoComm Announces Early Release Program for New Vertical Location Service Aimed at Making 9-1-1 Caller Z-Axis Positioning Actionable
GeoComm is leading the way into the vertical frontier of Public Safety Location Intelligence® with the release of a new product, GeoComm Vertical Location Services. This offering provides the missing link to making the z-axis actionable during 9-1-1 calls by converting raw positioning measurements from 9-1-1 callers’ cell phones into dispatchable locations including building name, street address, height above the ground, and probable floor level, while also generating a 3D visualization of the caller’s location inside a building.
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July 18, 2022
The Next Frontier of 9-1-1 Mapping – Indoors
For many years the focus for Public Safety Grade GIS has been on site structure address points, road centerlines, service boundaries, and PSAP boundaries for routing 9-1-1 calls in a NG 9-1-1 systems. As we progress towards full NG9-1-1 implementations, having indoor context about the location of calls within indoor spaces will be critical for telecommunicators and first on scene responders.
