San Diego Multiple Agency Public Safety (SanMAPS)

About the Program

Category: Risk and Emergency Management (Best in Category)

Year: 2016

Emergency management requires situational awareness and a common operational picture to gather intelligence to make informed decisions during crises. Before the evolution of geographic information systems (GIS), having physical maps for planning, response, and recovery was a nicety. GIS has turned it into a “must have” — a tool that allows emergency management stakeholders and the public to interact with a mapping application to create critical and actionable intelligence views. San Diego Multiple Agency Public Safety (SanMAPS) is a regional group, data library, and standardized applications. SanMAPS participants include GIS professionals, emergency managers, first-responders, and stakeholders with official roles or responsibilities in preparedness, response, or recovery activities. SanMAPS’ goal is to maintain a capable group of regional professionals that can share, plan, train, and respond to disasters by using GIS to provide excellent spatial decision support during crises. SanMAPS simplifies the exchange of GIS information, using GIS Web Services to seamlessly exchange and share common operational data from a single source of information. SanMAPS leverages Esri’s ArcGIS Online (AGOL) as an easy-to-use Web mapping platform to mashup GIS data, quickly creating unique and interactive maps that can save lives, manage resources, and protect infrastructure.