Abstract

The Durango-La Plata County e911 CAD Geobase
Track: Emergency Medical Services/Fire
Authors: Rick Szmajter

The Durango-La Plata County Emergency Communication Center built a comprehensive geodatabase for e911 dispatch and record management that deploys a complex series of cascading geocode searches bundled into a composite geolocator. The query process allows dispatchers to rapidly call up location information on computer-aided dispatch (CAD) mapping software that provides spatial intelligence such as streets and intersections, residential and business addresses, common places, major and minor subdivisions, buildings, landmarks, highway mile markers, service zones, reporting districts and administrative boundaries. The visually-verifiable geocoded results are then automatically transferred from the geobase to the CAD Add-Call window.