Transportation

Purpose: Identify access routes to an incident, evacuation routes, and other related transportation reference points. Support routing of public vehicles (evacuation/avoidance).

• Streets, which are sometimes referred to as a “Centerline File” (name, hierarchy: primary vs. interstate)
• Private roads
• Traffic control points
• Access control points
• Road construction
• Transportation resources: buses, school buses (with wheelchair access), ambulances
• Navigable waterways
• Mass transit
• Railways
• Airports
• Helicopter landing zones

Population

Purpose: Identify impacted and at-risk populations.

• Daytime population
• At-risk populations (schools, daycare centers, public meeting places, senior citizen homes, universities, etc.)

Buildings

Purpose: Identify affected facilities in use for the incident.

• Potential shelter sites (large buildings, schools, convention centers, etc.)
• Primary and secondary mass care centers from existing emergency operations center plans
• Critical infrastructure
• Building footprints
• Ice arenas (temporary morgues)

Utilities

Purpose: Identify infrastructure that could be damaged or hazardous. Provide guidance for access by first responders.

• Utility pipelines
• Power lines (underground and overhead)
• Propane farms
• Sanitary sewers
• Water treatment plants
• Storm water facilities: catch basins, storm sewers outfalls
• Fire hydrants
• Potable water mains
• Public service facilities (public works, water treatment, waste water treatment, electrical plants)

Communications

Purpose: Identify potential communication outages due to the incident.

• Cell towers
• Radio communication
• Siren locations, sound buffers
• Main Internet hubs/lines

Land Ownership/Administrative

Purpose: Identify land ownership. These data may be managed by the tax assessor’s office.

• Address points
• Parcel boundaries
• Jurisdictions

Environment

Purpose: Identify physical environment conditions that may influence hazard behavior or response.

• Topography
• Water courses
• Lakes
• Rivers
• Department of environmental management
• Fuel models
• Historical fire incidents
• FEMA flood zones
• Extremely Hazardous Sites and Hazardous Sites (SARA Title 3 sites)

Imagery

Purpose: View predisaster images of current features.

• Aerial imagery with date
• Oblique aerial imagery (e.g., pictometry)

Dynamic Datasets

Purpose: Gain perspective on incident within context of current conditions.

• Atmospheric conditions (wind direction, etc.)
• Traffic counts/traffic flow
• Incident data sets

Incident Specific

Purpose: Visualize location and extent of incident.

• Location and extent of tactical area or incident boundaries (point, line, or polygon)
• Plume (fire, chemical, etc.)
• Earthquake maps (USGS)

Incident Command

Purpose: Identify incident operations sites and zones.

• Incident command post
• Staging areas
• Hot/warm/cold zones
• Shelter sites
• Decontamination site
• Evacuation zone
• Police/fire stations
• Hospitals/emergency care
• Heliports Airports Landmarks