Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP)

For example, MapInfo has an E911 database called “PSAP Pro” which contains the following PSAP information for the U.S.:

10-digit emergency numbers	Address information
Administrative phone number	Fax number
Contact person	Latitude and longitude
Jurisdictional boundaries

~4,400 records: both primary PSAPs and sheriff’s departments and offices in areas not served by a PSAP. from http://www.mobileinfo.com/news_2001/issue03/mapinfo_psap.htm Links to an external site.

So finding the nearest one can be done based on geography, but is it the most relevant or useful one? In Sweden SOS Alarm works with the digital maps from CoordCom.

Location Interopeability Forum became part of Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) and no longer exists separately: http://www.openmobilealliance.org/tech/affiliates/lif/lifindex.html Links to an external site.

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[slide436] So what happens? Well, these public safety answering points have a database. They are responsible for different physical regions. There's a map that allocates, this area is responsible for these particular public service access point, is responsible for that region, and there's a location interoperability forum that's defined a method to be able to handle this kind of mapping information.