Geographic Information Systems

What is GIS?

• USGS.gov“Systems capable of capturing, storing, analyzing, and displaying geographically referenced information; that is, data identified according to location. Practitioners also define a GIS as including the procedures, operating personnel, and spatial data that go into the system.”

• Used for scientific investigations, resource management, and development planning. For example, a GIS might allow emergency planners to easily calculate emergency response times in the event of a natural disaster, or a GIS might be used to find wetlands that need protection from pollution.

GIS - Model 1, FD

GIS - Model 2, FD

GIS - Model 3, Risks in Middletown, Rhode Island

GIS - Model 4Third Beach Chart

The ability to customize layers for representation of data is powerful.

A successful GIS implementation allows the user to start with a generic map and add detail that is easy to manipulate.

GIS - Model 5 Zoning

Voice Over Internet ProtocolWhat is VoIP?Federal Communications Commision (FCC)

• Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) is technology that allows voice calls using a broadband Internet connection instead of a regular (or analog) phone line.”

• VoIP uses viable technology to leverage IP services for telephone usage.

9-1-1 Concerns! – from VoIP911.govAs of May 2005 VoIP integrators are required to:

• deliver 911 calls to the local emergency call center • deliver the customer’s call back number and location information where

the emergency call center is capable of receiving it

• inform customers of capabilities and limitations of the VoIP 911 service

VoIP - Model 1Topology

VAN

Town Hall

Saftey Campus

Library

Senior Center

ShoreTel ServerDHCP Server

FTPSNMP

Time Server