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Automating the Creation of
9-1-1 Compliant Street Data
Tammy Kobliuk
GIS Coordinator, I.T. Services

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Road-Trip Agenda
 Purpose of the trip
 Why we’re travelling
 Where’s the fire?
 What’s the problem, aren’t the roads
mapped?
(otherwise known as “all roads aren’t
created equal”)

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Purpose of the Trip
 Supporting our protective services
 Standardize
 Regionalize
 Automate

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Background
 St. Albert RCMP detachment is the primary 9-1-1
call centre
 Fire Department does fire services equipment
dispatching
 Alberta Health Services (AHS) does the
ambulance dispatching
 St. Albert operates ambulances under contract to
AHS
 St. Albert GIS supplies data for all three systems

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Where’s The Fire?

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Assumption
If it is good enough for the Fire
Department, then it is good
enough for Alberta Health
Services (AHS) and the RCMP

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Known 9-1-1 Data CAD Uses
 9-1-1 (secondary) call
matching.
 The geocoding of the Telus
ANI/ALI feed.
 Primary call matching =
address points.
 Fastest route calculation.
 Interactive dispatch map
display.

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Regional Road Network
(Follow the Smoke)
 Inputs: St. Albert, City of Edmonton, Sturgeon
County
 Output Target: FDM Street Requirements
 Non-matching table structures
 Nothing meets FDM structure needs
 Target update cycle: quarterly
 Automate as much as possible

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Data Notes
 St. Albert road data is updated whenever roads
and addresses change.
 Significant work completed to meet FDM
requirements.
 City of Edmonton road data
 Downloaded quarterly
 Static data model
 Most information compiled into single fields
 Sturgeon County – very rough; requires TLC

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The “It’s Not Pretty” Road to Deliverance
X 3
• Identify line
direction.
• Assign FDM street
classes.
• Extract quadrant
information.
Extract and reclassify
street name types.
Combine into
single dataset
and export to
shapefile
Combine and
remap St.
Albert and
Sturgeon Cty

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St. Albert & Sturgeon County
 Filter
 Replace
 Remap
 Combine

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The First Model

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From A to B

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Off To The Big City (Edmonton)!
 Individual input layers for each arterial, collector,
and local class. Alleys ignored.
 Fully concatenated street names.
 Street name types are not abbreviated.
 Two different street classifications – they don’t
match our FDM classes.
 Names ALL CAPITALIZED.
 Data table structure is static.

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From C to D (or is that B?)

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What’s In A Name?
 If you’re Edmonton, apparently everything
including the kitchen sink.
My
personal
favorite!

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What’s In A Name?
 Prefix (e.g. South Terwilligar Drive)
 Name Only part (e.g. Stony Plain Road)
 Name Type – using standard MSAG abbrev.
 (e.g. Avenue = AV; Crescent = CR)
 Suffix (e.g. Everitt Drive North; 112 Street
NW)
Also need a Display Name for the CAD map.
(e.g. Coal Mine Rd)

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The First Edmonton Model(s)

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The Second Model(s)

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Altogether Now!

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List of Most Popular Stops
 Tester
 String Searcher
 Substring Extractor
 Attribute Filter
 Attribute Creator
 Case Changer

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Future Sidetrips (Enhancements)
 Spatial clipping to municipal boundaries
 Automated ID numbering
 Adding additional municipalities

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Thank You!
 Questions?
 For more information:
 Tammy Kobliuk: tkobliuk@stalbert.ca
 City of St. Albert, I.T. Services