Paul Wickman

Bio: Paul is Technology Director of GIS (aka Head GeoNerd) at RESPEC Consulting and Services and has been part of the GIS community since moving to the Minneapolis Twin Cities in 2003. Originally from Sheboygan, WI (where water fountains are correctly called bubblers) Paul spent much of his earlier career in/around the San Francisco Bay Area. The GIS group at RESPEC develops, supports and promotes GIS solutions in the areas of water resources and modeling, mining and energy and business intelligence.

Visualizing Fire Department Responses with CartoDB

Local government fire departments need to demonstrate their performance and efficiency. In this session we will show how CartoDB and Torque are being used to visualize fire department responses to emergency events. See expected travel routes as compared to modeled drive-times. Effective Response Force (ERF) is one method that fire departments use to measure their level of success. An ERF is a set of specific resources required to perform a particular task within a set amount of time. For example, the ERF for a large commercial structure fire might be four fire engines, one ambulance and a fire chief. These resources may be coming from different fire stations, different cities or directly from other emergency events.

emergency response, visualization, animation