Heart and Soul.

The heart and soul of OnScene Xplorer mapping and pre-planning software is…well the mapping! The best mapping software in the world is worthless unless the data is good. That is why we do the mapping for you. After all, it’s a pretty safe bet you need your staff to focus on fighting fires, catching bad guys, or intubating patients…not becoming GIS Techs (Geographic Information Systems). However, we love mapping data. We eat, breathe and sleep mapping data.

Where do we get the mapping data?

Where ever we can my friend. Whenever a customer comes on board with our OnScene Xplorer software in a new area, we contact the local county or city mapping departments to gather whatever data is available. If no data is available, we turn to other public sources of data and begin there. Most of the time we have to do a little “shake-n-bake” to get the mapping data ready for you to use. And sometimes we have to create some of the layers “from scratch”.

What about updates?

It goes without saying; mapping data is only as good as the day it was captured. Tomorrow will bring changes and you need to have those changes in your OnScene Xplorer mapping software. The OnScene Xplorer software includes automatic mapping data (and software) updates. For most areas we schedule quarterly mapping updates. When your area is ready for an update, the first thing we do is contact you. Yeah, that makes sense doesn’t it? You know what’s going on in your neighborhood. So we ask you if you know of any changes. Then we contact the local mapping departments and get a new cut of data. We update our master data and publish the update. Your OnScene Xplorer software checks for updates, if there are changes; it downloads the new map to your device. You’re good to go.