{"id":484,"date":"2010-06-01T19:21:13","date_gmt":"2010-06-02T03:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/palebluedotllc.com\/\/?p=484"},"modified":"2015-06-15T21:06:26","modified_gmt":"2015-06-16T05:06:26","slug":"mapping-application-makes-accurate-data-available-in-real-time-mobile-gis-helps-firefighters-respond-more-effectively","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/palebluedotllc.com\/?p=484","title":{"rendered":"Mapping Application Makes Accurate Data Available in Real Time: Mobile GIS Helps Firefighters Respond More Effectively"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For nearly a decade, the City of Marietta Fire Department in Georgia made do with a mapping application that was difficult to use and often displayed outdated information. Meanwhile, the city&#8217;s GIS division had up-to-date data but no good way to make it available in real time to emergency responders.<\/p>\n<p>Now the department operates with a state-of-the-art mobile mapping application that can route and re-route fire trucks on-the-fly. The application operator can even steer firefighters to entry points, hallways, and stairs in a mapped building that may be hidden behind thick smoke but are clearly visible on the computer screen.<\/p>\n<p>Recently the city&#8217;s IT department and fire department, working as partners, reviewed options for making better use of the city&#8217;s existing data and infrastructure and upgrading its fire mobility application. The city contracted with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gis-services.com\/\">Geographic Information Services, Inc.<\/a>\u00a0(GISi), an Esri business partner, to design and implement a new server-based application.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/news\/arcwatch\/0610\/marietta-fire-dept.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read more&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For nearly a decade, the City of Marietta Fire Department in Georgia made do with a mapping application that was difficult to use and often displayed outdated information. Meanwhile, the city&#8217;s GIS division had up-to-date data but no good way to make it available in real time to emergency responders. Now the department operates with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":485,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,50,35,12,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-arcwatch","category-gis","category-geospatial_topics","category-short_articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/palebluedotllc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/palebluedotllc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/palebluedotllc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palebluedotllc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palebluedotllc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=484"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/palebluedotllc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":871,"href":"https:\/\/palebluedotllc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions\/871"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palebluedotllc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/palebluedotllc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palebluedotllc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palebluedotllc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}