Philadelphia, May 2–4, Philadelphia, May 2–4, Benjamin Lewis, Senior GIS Analyst, Advanced Technology Solutions, Inc. Judith Woodhall, Managing Director, COMCARE EPAD A Geospatially Enabled Directory for Emergency Response Interoperability A COMCARE Initiative

2 COMCARE Overview A national advocacy organization of over 100 members dedicated to advancing emergency communications Our goal: borderless, geographically targeted information sharing for the most advanced response to emergencies

3 Emergency Communications Today’s Challenges No comprehensive infrastructure Agencies contacted one by one No accurate directory of all emergency response agencies Each agency must absorb its own customization costs No shared capabilities Incompatibility and obsolescence dangers

4 Our E-Safety Vision Safety as an enterprise Full interoperability among agencies –Enable geographic targeting and cooperative exchange of information of emergency incident information Embrace diversity; interface with legacy systems New shared utilities –Electronic registry of agencies (EPAD) –Authentication and authorization services –Security Diagnostics Faster and smarter emergency response

5 E-Safety Enabled Communications

6 EPAD Explained A national directory of agencies NOT individuals Secure, shared community utility that will operate as a non-profit public/private partnership Map-enabled, web-based registry that enables the accurate routing of emergency and warning messages

7 EPAD Explained Information profiles are established and maintained by the agencies themselves –Agencies choose what information they receive –Agencies choose when and how they receive it –Agencies choose who has access to its information Messaging systems query EPAD to determine to whom and where messages should be sent EPAD returns a list of agencies — based on geographic area and incident type — that can be used for simultaneous message distribution

8 EPAD Architectural Vision Services-oriented architecture with reusable components and common, published interfaces Component-Based Architecture including stand- alone GIS module: –Allows agencies to graphically specify jurisdictions and interest areas pertinent to their responsibility –Creates interest definitions for an agency by associating geographic Areas with incident types, responsibility types and timeframes –Facilitates the identification of geographic areas for matching routing requests

9 The Open Source GIS Approach Best of Breed Standards Compliant Scalable High Performance Reusable Great Support Vast Developer Community

10 Over 100,000 Agencies With Emergency Management Interests States, Counties, Tribal Areas… and Local Government

11 Agencies Create Records, Publish Administration Interface – Agencies associate geographic boundaries with Interest Definitions as part of EPAD registration process Web Service Interface - Agency information in EPAD made available for query via web services TIGER Boundaries EPAD Directory Admin Interface for Agency Registration Interoperable Web Services Interface to EPAD SOAP

12 EPAD: Interoperable to the Core GeoServerGeographic Markup Language 2.1 (GML) GeoServerWeb Feature Service 1.0 (WFS) MapServerWeb Map Service (WMS) PostGISSimple Feature Specification for SQL(SFS) PostGISWell Known Binary (WKB) PostGISWell Known Text (WKT) GIS Component OGC Standard Supported

13 WKT Examples POINT(10 10) A Point. LINESTRING(10 10, 20 20, 30 40) A LineString with three points. POLYGON((10 10, 10 20, 20 20, 20 15, 10 10)) A Polygon with one exterior ring and zero interior rings. MULTIPOINT(10 10, 20 20) A MultiPoint with two Points. MULTILINESTRING((10 10, 20 20), (15 15, 30 15)) A MultiLineString with two LineStrings. MULTIPOLYGON(((10 10, 10 20, 20 20, 20 15, 10 10)), ((60 60, 70 7, 80 60, ))) A MultiPolygon with two Polygons. GEOMETRYCOLLECTION(POINT(10 10), POINT(30 30), LINESTRING(15 15, 20 20)) A GeometryCollection consisting of two Points and one LineString.

14 EPAD GIS Component Architecture JSP Pages GIS Web Services Thumbnail Generator Map Generation MapServer Enterprise Java Beans Apache Administration Database EPAD Routing Database Map Navigation (IMF) Add/Edit Interest Def Get Agencies Event Get Agencies Juris WMS, WKT SFS SQL, WKB WMS

15 Web Services Query County FIPS Code Census Code Place or Subdivision FIPS System sends query containing Location and Incident information to EPAD Agency Codes Returned by GIS State FIPS Code EPAD identifies agencies within the given area that want notification for this incident Location buffered and used in spatial query COUNTY TRIBAL STATE MUNI EPAD returns agency list with notification instructions to messaging system. First responder describes and locates incident in messaging system Messaging system sends out alert Query sent to EPAD, “drills down” through boundary layers, returns list of agencies for that location.

16 GIS Components PostGIS – Robust, Open Source spatial RDBMS. OGC compliant, supports wide range of spatial predicates implemented in SQL. MapServer – Widely used, Open Source web map server written in C. Supports OGC WMS and WFS. GeoServer – Open Source WFS and WMS web server, OGC reference implementation for WFS. Moximedia IMF – Full featured, OGC compliant, rapid development framework. (Moximedia is not open source.)

17 Questions

18 For More Information COMCARE Alliance 1701 K Street NW 4th Floor Washington DC (202) Web: Advanced Technology Solutions, Inc Oregon Pike, STE 202 Lancaster, PA (717) Web: List of Open Source GIS Projects: