FREMONT, Calif. – Consistent with the purpose and mission of the PSTA, the PSTA Board of Directors is pleased to release the Mapping Technical Subcommittee report which includes the initial PSTA recommendations for public safety and industry.

The Mapping Subcommittee was established to review current mapping standards and trends in public safety mapping technology. Subcommittee members then identified gaps and overlapping or conflicting standards that may create potential problems for public safety agencies who are using mapping solutions to provide the framework for connecting, managing, and sharing IoT data between other technology systems, both internally within agencies, and externally to share information with other public safety stakeholders. This was followed by the development of a set of recommendations for a number of key public safety workflow areas surrounding existing open standards and industry specific standards that have been field-tested and adopted by a significant assemblage of organizations and vendors from across public safety industries. Where the desired criteria have not been met, recommendations are given regarding standards, explaining how subsequent implementation would solve a known interoperability challenge.

The Subcommittee’s recommendations are being made based on input and ongoing discussion among PSTA industry and public safety membership, and have been formulated leveraging this industry and public safety expertise as well as publicly available standards and related information.