E911

If you call 911, you want to know that the ambulance will pull into your driveway and not your neighbor’s, or the dirt driveway to your back lot.  For emergency responders, time lost can be lives lost.

The county needed people to place more than 60,000 pinpoints on its new aerial maps to make sure emergency responders pulled into the right driveways.

An accidental meeting led to Hannibal Central School’s GIS program, one of the few in the state, and a project that got kids involved in saving lives. […]