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Geospatial Emergency Response System
This project was created to address public safety requirements and to develop an emergency response system for Lanark County and four collaborating local municipalities.
The system will be used to collect, share and maintain location-based information required during an emergency and incorporate the capabilities needed to address emergency situations. The system will allow all parties to access and share situational location-based information during an emergency. In addition, it will facilitate the upload of critical information for sharing by multiple jurisdictions during an emergency situation — allowing all authorized emergency organizations to view the same real-time information without the need to resort to phone calls or file transfers.
Overall, this project will enable the County to move its basic Emergency Plan to a more comprehensive and integrated emergency response system. It will cover the entire county of Lanark using location-based information from local municipal sources, provincial sources, national sources, and its own information. County data will be available to partner organizations using Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure (CGDI) endorsed standards. In addition, architecture and CGDI standards developed for this system will be used in other county geo-spatial systems.
Primary Partner:
The Corporation of the County of Lanark
Perth,
Ontario;
Partners: Lanark County Municipalities (Drummond/North, Elmsley, Montague, Perth, Tay Valley); Beckwith Township; Renfrew County; Town of Carleton Place; Town of Mississippi Mills; Smith Falls Fire Department; CGIS Spatial Solutions (Private Sector); Almonte General Hospital
Funding From GeoConnections: $89,600.00 ( 48.0 %)
Estimated Inception Date: May, 2007
Estimated Completion Date: March, 2008
Deliverables from this project benefitted the following provinces: Ontario;