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Honoring Public Safety Telecommunicators for Dedication, Service in the 9-1-1 Community
It’s that time of year again: National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week (NPSTW) when we honor telecommunications personnel in the public...
READNew Team Members Bring Public Safety Service and NG9-1-1 Expertise to DATAMARK
DATAMARK is committed to the public safety community and this is reflected in our efforts to recruit team members with...
READPublic Safety GIS and Lean Six Sigma’s Shared Mission for Quality
Lean Six Sigma and public safety geographic information systems (GIS) are two completely disparate fields, each with volumes of research...
READDATAMARK’s Keri Brennan Now President-Elect of URISA for GIS Professionals
In October 2018, DATAMARK Product Manager Keri Brennan, GISP, began a three-year term as president-elect of the Board of Directors...
READ“Left at the Golden Apple”: How Addressing Evolved and Affects the NG9-1-1 Transition Today
Believe it or not, there was a time before addresses existed. Centuries ago, people would identify structures with symbols, rather...
READDATAMARK Team Expands Technical Public Safety GIS Team to Support NG9-1-1 Deployments
The DATAMARK team at Michael Baker International has expanded to include new technical experts in GIS data analysis, product management,...
READDATAMARK Team Lead to Instruct URISA Workshop at the Esri User Conference
Michael Baker International’s Associate Vice President, Public Safety GIS and DATAMARK lead, Sandi Stroud, will be instructing the URISA workshop...
READWhat Your NG9-1-1 RFP Should Include (And a Couple Things It Shouldn’t)
As a technology vendor and a division of an engineering consulting firm, the DATAMARK team at Michael Baker International has...
READ9-1-1 vs. NG9-1-1: A Quick Guide for Public Safety Stakeholders
The transition from E9-1-1 to Next Generation 9-1-1 (NG9-1-1) is an overhaul to the legacy systems that currently support first...
READTop 5 Considerations on the Journey to NG9-1-1
We’ve all heard the phrase, “It’s not about the destination. It’s about the journey.” (more…)
READA Matter of Life and Data – The GIS Data Gap and Life-Critical Situations
There’s no doubt that having the correct location information can mean the difference between life and death when someone makes...
READDATAMARK® Team Adds Public Safety and GIS Experts to Ease Transitions to NG 9-1-1
The DATAMARK team at Michael Baker International is expanding to include new experts in mapping, 9-1-1, public safety and geographic...
READDATAMARK Team Shares Insights on NG9-1-1 with NENA 2018 Attendees
Members of the Michael Baker International DATAMARK team are hosting three educational sessions at the NENA 2018 Conference and Expo...
READDATAMARK VEP will help ease transition to NG9-1-1
Today (June 12, 2018) marks an important milestone as we’re officially launching DATAMARK VEP, our software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution that validates,...
READWhy NG9-1-1 Requires Addressing Beyond the 98
Addressing data is not static. Unlike, say, a trusted recipe that is passed down from generation to generation, maps on...
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