What are the CAD data elements and data format needed for building CAD Analyst and Fire/EMS ADAM?
To build and update CAD Analyst and ADAM, we need certain data from your CAD. Specifically, we need data on both incidents and responses. An incident is a call for emergency, such as “Brush Fire on 2000 Main Street on 01/02/98 at 01:05:25”. Responses correspond to the various units that respond to that incident, one response for each responding unit. Thus, for the above incident example, responses would be those corresponding to units E1, E3, M5, etc. that responded that incident. As you can see, an incident can have multiple responses. Data elements that we need of the Incident Data and Response Data are first described below. These data can be given to us in one of two forms: Combined or Separate, both of which are described further below. While the above forms are generic and cover all CADs, for certain CADs that we have worked with, we have either identified the specific files from that CAD that have all the data we need or have written programs to extract the needed data. The last
