Parks and Recreation staff were excited to take paperwork orders off the table and replace the system with innovative technology. It not only increased efficiencies, but it also saved their department time and money and increased the accuracy of collected data.
The Cities of Broken Arrow and Moore both maintain the Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP) for their area, and as a result, face similar challenges. One of those is ensuring that they are Next Generation 911 (NG911) compliant and also that they are using the optimal GIS tools for their agency.
The City of Broken Arrow faces the same problem that every other city in the United States faces. That is, they have to make sense of the deluge of GIS/mapping applications available to them for public safety.
In September 2015, the City of Saint John requested support for the creation and implementation of GIS software for Public Safety. They were looking for a way to map their information from their Computer-Aided Dispatch (CAD) Record-Management System (RMS).
Since the implementation of advanced GIS applications and tools, the City of Roswell has gained an increased awareness in COVID-19 response efforts. They have the ability to evaluate patterns and trends associated with historical and current call volumes and are able to reference a comprehensive environment for visualization, response, and analysis.
In 2017, Berkeley with assistance from GTG developed and implemented a GIS Strategic Plan. The following year, the City again engaged with GTG to develop a Mobile GIS Action Plan as a follow up to key findings in their GIS Strategic Plan.
