The City of Roanoke is participating in a regional GIS data-sharing project with neighboring localities Roanoke County and the City of Salem. Earlier this year, the municipalities applied for and received a grant from the Virginia 9-1-1 Services Board to help prepare for upcoming changes in Next Generation 911 (NG9-1-1) emergency response.
The purpose of the project was to create a common dataset and schema for integration into each locality’s emergency 911 (E911) computer-aided dispatching (CAD) system. Feature layers include address points, road centerlines, municipal boundaries, fire response zones, and law districts. Other layers were included for cartographic purposes.The top priority of the project was for each locality to have GIS data schema that was NG9-1-1 compliant and ingestible into each locality’s CAD system. ...continued ...