Plaquemines Parish E911 GIS Implementation

Plaquemines Parish contracted BKI for a major GIS development project for consisting of six phases over 5 years. The assessment included evaluating and documenting the parish’s existing GIS systems and data, which were essentially non-existent except for general federal and state-level data.  BKI documented the Parish organization, work processes, data flow, hardware and software systems, and existing GIS data sources.  We also met with individual departments to determine the needs for GIS and the types of functions that would increase work performance and efficiency.  From this information, BKI developed a phased approach project plan with schedules, budgets, and a detailed description of the work to be performed.

Based on the approved project plan, phase 2 was implemented consisting primarily of GIS data development of key base map data layers including road centerlines, address points, parish landmarks, and detailed parcel boundary data.  could be linked directly to the tax assessor database.

Once road centerline data was developed in the GIS, it was immediately requested to be incorporated into the Parish E911 Computer-Aided Dispatch system to provide a mapping interface for dispatchers to help direct emergency crews to service calls in a Parish that had lost most of its signage and landmarks during Hurricane Katrina.  Modifications were made to the road attribute information to accommodate the existing system requirements and the data was validated for use in the dispatching process.  Several other newly developed data layers were also provided to enhance the detail of the background feature data.