GDR

2021-10-27 I wrote this page in 2015 as part of research into the company and maybe they were processing E911 data? They seem to have disappeared without a trace.

Staff

Aaron Alex - data systems analyst, SRJC business

Tony Alex - executive vice president, Cal

Rahul Bhosle - associate GIS developer, masters in GIS

Helen Duan - president

Marleaux Flournoy - CTO, Cal, business

Scott Lowrie - GIS analyst (Griffin Maps), SSU Geography

Brian Matisek - GIS analyst, physical geography, gis

Stephanie Murphy - GIS technician - web developer, econonmics

Andrew Reagan - GIS technician, Cal, Anthropology & archaelogy

Martin Sanchez - associate geospatial developer, UC Davis, physics

Adam Smith - GIS analyst, urban planning, transportation and land use

Katie Thomason - GIS technician, geology/earth sciences

Fekadu Wondem, GISP - senior GIS analyst

former

Roy Jackson, senior software developer, GeoComm in MN, Petaluma remote work

Partners

ATCi Hays, KS - They do "GIS tools" - rather ambiguous. Something I would say. :-) They need to update their web site.

earthmine - Berkeley, CA - See below

ESRI -- we know about them already

Geoconex - Knoxville, TN - Data management, CAD, AVL, ENS*, map editor and viewer They must be close friends, they use the same lightbar stock photo as GDR. :-) *ENS = Emergency Notification Service

Intergraph - They are big and they are not ESRI.

[Intrado] - Longmont, Colorado - Various PSAP support services. They have a service running from clients to PSAP via SMS, interesting, never thought of that. Then again I never worked in a PSAP.

Tiburon - San Ramon, CA - Records and CAD systems

TriTech Software Systems - NC based company doing a full range of first responder software. They list a mix of PD's and FD's as their clients.

From GDR's services page

• Public Safety Geofile Services
• GIS Data Review
• Addresspoints
• Britedata
• earthmine
• Other GIS Services
• Partner Programs

What's a Geofile?

I think it's probably a proprietary format used by Tiburon dispatch software. In this context "geofile service" would mean converting data provided in sundry formats into the right format for inclusion in Tiburon. Done that, extensively, just never called it a "geofile". At AGI I used ESRI geodatabase files, first PGDB then FGDB for functional data and anything for display-only data.

"The geofile is a database of standardized locations, including specific house numbers and streets names, commonplace names (Jackson Park), and intersections. The geofile insures that locations are within the jurisdiction, within a valid block number range, and are consistently entered and entered (which assists in later searches)" -- Dispatch Magazine, [1] Based on this definition, then a geofile is what I called functional data.

See also the GDR Geofile Services page.

GIS data review

This is described on the Geofile Service page.

"GeoServices Engine" is an automated data review.

What's Britedata?

It's a set of business intelligence tools/services that are a GDR product. [2] A couple examples: since GDR has amassed a wealth of address data, they can capitalize on this by helping customers clean their own address data by comparing it with GDR data. They can also identify potential clients in a given geographic area that are near existing clients.

Who is using it?

What's earthmine?

It was a Berkeley startup that has been acquired by Nokia and they built Here.

Earthmine's big thing is 3D data collection using photos (like Google Streetview), which is of course very cool but I have not seen that yet.

You can see addresses in the photos, GDR uses that for address verification. Sounds pretty time-consuming unless you can use CV to dig out the address numbers. Hmmm... that would be pretty interesting...

I've seen demos of other products using both photo and LiDAR used to do this. It is very interesting for public works and planning applications.

"Here" looks exactly like Google Maps, right down to the annoying control that covers 20% of the map all the time. Disappointing. Nokia probably made them build that. :-)