Geographic Information Systems Insights
How New Mexico Strengthened Emergency Response with Public Safety Grade GIS Data
Ensuring Accurate Location Data Across 100+ Local Governments. Overview In New Mexico, a largely rural state with vast geographic areas and limited emergency resources, even small GIS data errors can have life-threatening consequences. With more than 100 local government agencies contributing GIS data and over 40 Public Safety Answering Points (PSAPs) relying on that data...
GeoComm Indoor Mapping Integration with Zetron Help Strengthen Iowa Public Safety Response
Integration brings indoor building context into Zetron workflows to help public safety teams respond faster, coordinate more effectively, and improve situational awareness during indoor emergencies across Iowa. St. Cloud, Minn. – April 28, 2026 – GeoComm today announced an integration that brings GeoComm indoor mapping content into Zetron’s Map Viewer, helping support public safety agencies...
Palm Beach County Schools Strengthen Safety with Indoor Maps Across 200+ Campuses
Ensuring safety across a large school district requires more than traditional emergency plans. For the Palm Beach County School District, the tenth-largest school district in the United States, protecting students and staff means preparing for emergencies across hundreds of campuses and thousands of buildings. To strengthen situational awareness and emergency response, the district partnered with GeoComm to implement a...
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.
RapidSOS and GeoComm Partner to Provide Accurate Location and Enhanced Data to 9-1-1 Centers using GeoComm Mapping Systems
GeoComm and RapidSOS are pleased to announce a strategic partnership to provide public safety agencies that use GeoComm 9-1-1 Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP) mapping systems with accurate location and additional data from the RapidSOS Clearinghouse. Through this partnership, PSAP’s working with GeoComm will be able to harness data from the RapidSOS NG911 Clearinghouse — including accurate handset location from all smartphone location sensors natively embedded into the 9-1-1 call flow.
