On August 25 & 30, 2011 NAPSG and the National States Geographic Information Council (NSGIC), with support from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, co-hosted webcast training seminars on how to use the GIS Inventory as a directory for the information acces, sharing & collaboration across public safety at all levels of government. The training session (titled,"Discovering GIS Information that Supports Public Safety") provided public safety, emergency services personnel, and GIS & IT professionals with training on how to use the GIS Inventory to advance the use of geospatial information in daily public safety operations. It covered the following specific knowledge & skills needed to understand what the GIS Inventory is and how it works:
- Gain ideas for how your public safety agency(s) can use the GIS Inventory to support your mission & operations.
- Discover how to use the GIS Inventory as a directory to forge relationships & collaboration.
- Learn how to get access to data layers your agency needs to advance how you use GIS in daily operations.
Providede here is a shortened version of the webcast training seminar as a video training tutorial. Click on the link below to access the Video Training Tutorial on the GIS Inventory for Public Safety
Discovering GIS Information that Supports Public Safety- High Definition
Discovering GIS Information that Supports Public Safety- Regular Quality and Resolution
This video tutorial is a great way to learn how to utilize the GIS inventory in your public safety agency'. You can use this video as a training tool in your agency to equip your staff with valuable information for how the GIS Inventory can be used to enhance your current geospatial capabilities OR to help your agency get started in building a GIS. Also, provided below is an overview document about the GIS Inventory and how it is used to support public safety GIS needs.
If you have questions about the GIS Inventory that are not answered in the video tutorial or on the GIS Inventory website, feel free to send an email to questions@publicsafetygis.org with your question- be sure to include "Questions on Discovering GIS Information" in the subject line of the email. NAPSG will do our best to provide answers to your questions within a couple of weeks.
