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APCO Project 42
The goal of Project 42 is to identify those areas where standards are needed to achieve system interoperability and create a common operating picture at all levels, horizontal and vertical.
Project 42 will look at such issues as:
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Identify the scope of minimum common geospatial information required to be shared to coordinate Public Safety Answering Points with emergency medical, fire, law enforcement deployed units and emergency management operations centers at the local, regional, state and federal levels.
- Identify what standards are needed. This will be done by determining which elements have a commonly accepted quasi standard.
- Place element sets into the APCO standards process for validation.(An example of one such set of items are map icons and embedded "metadata" describing those icons. Do icons, such as vehicle or building symbols, on one map make sense to someone from another jurisdiction, are they readable, are they defined and does the information describing those icons translate across the intended user boundaries?)
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