GIS Collaboration For Emergency Services

Randy KnippelGIS Manager

Dakota County

8 County Collaboration GIS WorkgroupMESB NG911 Workgroup

2

Required– Street Centerlines– Address Points– Emergency Service Boundaries

• Fire• Law• Medical• PSAP

– Community Boundaries– Authoritative Boundaries

Recommended– Parcels– Water Features– Railroads– Trails– Driveways– Mile Markers– Common Places

• School• Church• Hospitals• Businesses• Landmarks

– Cell Towers– AVL– Weather, Camera, Traffic Feeds– Imagery– 3D Landscape and Buildings– Premise Info– National Grid

GIS Data in NG9-1-1

Emergency Dispatch Multiple Silos

County

CityMetro

Council

MnDOT

DNR

Google

TeleAtlas

911 Dispatch

Address Geocoding

Cartography

Vehicle Routing

Linear Referencing

Single Authoritative

SourceEmergency Services

County

City

Metro Council

MnDOT

DNR

Google

TeleAtlas

State

Region

County

City City City

County

City City

Region

County City

HierarchicalCollaborative Model

• Distributed• Authoritative• Reliable

A HistoryOf Collaboration

1999 – Regional Parcels

A HistoryOf Collaboration

1997 – Commercial Regional Centerlines

Statewide Centerline Initiative

• MnDOT in production internally• Update MnGeo instance of tools for the partners• Conflation of non-state data• Align with Metro counties GIS Centerlines, Next

Generation 9-1-1 efforts• 2 data views – General use and Engineering

To develop, test, refine, publish and perpetuate a single state- wide roadway dataset that meets the needs of a diverse user community…

County Data

(4/1/2015)

• State formal request

• Multiple agencies

• Precursor to NG 911

Collaborative Relationships

• MetroGIS– 7 Metro counties and various other

regional stakeholders (including MESB)• 8 County Collaborative

– 7 Metro counties + Olmsted County– Established by County Administrators to

foster IT collaboration (including GIS)• MESB NG911 Workgroup

– 9 MESB counties

County Role For NG911

• Collaborate– Develop common data models– Engage cities

• Meet requirements for emergency services– Accurate– Current– Consistent