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Resource Abstract:
- description: 911 Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP) service area boundaries in Arkansas According to the National Emergency
Number Association (NENA), a Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP) is a facility equipped and staffed to receive 9-1-1 calls.
The service area is the geographic area within which a 911 call placed using a landline is answered at the associated PSAP.
This dataset only includes primary PSAPs. Secondary PSAPs, backup PSAPs, and wireless PSAPs have been excluded from this dataset.
Primary PSAPs receive calls directly, whereas secondary PSAPs receive calls that have been transferred by a primary PSAP.
Backup PSAPs provide service in cases where another PSAP is inoperable. Most military bases have their own emergency telephone
systems. To connect to such system from within a military base it may be necessary to dial a number other than 9 1 1. Due
to the sensitive nature of military installations, TGS did not actively research these systems. If civilian authorities in
surrounding areas volunteered information about these systems or if adding a military PSAP was necessary to fill a hole in
civilian provided data, TGS included it in this dataset. Otherwise military installations are depicted as being covered by
one or more adjoining civilian emergency telephone systems. In some cases areas are covered by more than one PSAP boundary.
In these cases, any of the applicable PSAPs may take a 911 call. Where a specific call is routed may depend on how busy the
applicable PSAPS are (i.e. load balancing), operational status (i.e. redundancy), or time of date / day of week. If an area
does not have 911 service, TGS included that area in the dataset along with the address and phone number of their dispatch
center. These are areas where someone must dial a 7 or 10 digit number to get emergency services. These records can be identified
by a "Y" in the [NON911EMNO] field. This indicates that dialing 911 inside one of these areas does not connect one
with emergency services. This dataset was constructed by gathering information about PSAPs from state level officials. In
some cases this was geospatial information, in others it was tabular. This information was supplemented with a list of PSAPs
from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Each PSAP was researched to verify its tabular information. In cases where
the source data was not geospatial, each PSAP was researched to determine its service area in terms of existing boundaries
(e.g. city and county boundaries). In some cases existing boundaries had to be modified to reflect coverage areas (e.g. €œentire
county north of Country Road 30€). However, there may be cases where minor deviations from existing boundaries
are not reflected in this dataset, such as the case where a particular PSAPs coverage area includes an entire county, and
the homes and businesses along a road which is partly in another county. Text fields in this dataset have been set to all
upper case to facilitate consistent database engine search results. All diacritics (e.g., the German umlaut or the Spanish
tilde) have been replaced with their closest equivalent English character to facilitate use with database systems that may
not support diacritics.; abstract: 911 Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP) service area boundaries in Arkansas According
to the National Emergency Number Association (NENA), a Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP) is a facility equipped and staffed
to receive 9-1-1 calls. The service area is the geographic area within which a 911 call placed using a landline is answered
at the associated PSAP. This dataset only includes primary PSAPs. Secondary PSAPs, backup PSAPs, and wireless PSAPs have been
excluded from this dataset. Primary PSAPs receive calls directly, whereas secondary PSAPs receive calls that have been transferred
by a primary PSAP. Backup PSAPs provide service in cases where another PSAP is inoperable. Most military bases have their
own emergency telephone systems. To connect to such system from within a military base it may be necessary to dial a number
other than 9 1 1. Due to the sensitive nature of military installations, TGS did not actively research these systems. If civilian
authorities in surrounding areas volunteered information about these systems or if adding a military PSAP was necessary to
fill a hole in civilian provided data, TGS included it in this dataset. Otherwise military installations are depicted as being
covered by one or more adjoining civilian emergency telephone systems. In some cases areas are covered by more than one PSAP
boundary. In these cases, any of the applicable PSAPs may take a 911 call. Where a specific call is routed may depend on how
busy the applicable PSAPS are (i.e. load balancing), operational status (i.e. redundancy), or time of date / day of week.
If an area does not have 911 service, TGS included that area in the dataset along with the address and phone number of their
dispatch center. These are areas where someone must dial a 7 or 10 digit number to get emergency services. These records can
be identified by a "Y" in the [NON911EMNO] field. This indicates that dialing 911 inside one of these areas does
not connect one with emergency services. This dataset was constructed by gathering information about PSAPs from state level
officials. In some cases this was geospatial information, in others it was tabular. This information was supplemented with
a list of PSAPs from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Each PSAP was researched to verify its tabular information.
In cases where the source data was not geospatial, each PSAP was researched to determine its service area in terms of existing
boundaries (e.g. city and county boundaries). In some cases existing boundaries had to be modified to reflect coverage areas
(e.g. €œentire county north of Country Road 30€). However, there may be cases where minor deviations
from existing boundaries are not reflected in this dataset, such as the case where a particular PSAPs coverage area includes
an entire county, and the homes and businesses along a road which is partly in another county. Text fields in this dataset
have been set to all upper case to facilitate consistent database engine search results. All diacritics (e.g., the German
umlaut or the Spanish tilde) have been replaced with their closest equivalent English character to facilitate use with database
systems that may not support diacritics.
Citation
- Title 911 Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP) Area Boundary (polygon).
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- creation Date
2014-12-08T17:51:34.679025
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