in exchange for your cooperation at improving and keeping it up to date

The Road Atlas of BC is a digital database that contains roads, key sites and facilities, and a basemap. This database was made by GIS Innovations primarily by driving essentially every road in BC with SUV’s equipped with GPS and on-board data capture systems. This massive amount of field data was processed, integrated and eventually turned into a "single line road network". The Road Atlas of BC now includes:

• ROADS - "all" public roads in BC, primarily based upon GPS, and includes road name, address ranging, and navigation (speeds, stops, # of lanes, truck limits and other routing information);
• SITES - a selected list of key sites & facilities like parks, schools, police-fire-ambulance stations, airports, ferry terminals, transit stations, bus depots, civic & recreation facilities, and so forth;
• BASEMAP – a background map derived from TRIM and other BC base map data under license.

We are providing you with an initial Road Atlas license and updates as per our regular schedule for your "internal usage" for no fees; that’s no purchase fees and no maintenance fees. We will extend the coverage to give you a reasonable buffer of areas around yours.

What does GIS Innovations expect in return from local government? Three things.

1. Your best address base data (GIS, database, maps, etc.) so that we can compare and update our road database. Note that NO other "consulting usage" will be done with your data, it will not be resold in any way, and it will NOT be forwarded onto others. We sell roads, sites and a base, not property data.
2. Your best information related to the key sites for update and inclusion in the Road Atlas.
3. Your active cooperation at helping GIS Innovations keep the Road Atlas up to date and accurate.

You win because we are offering you a highly accurate roads and sites file to complement your other information. This will help you validate the survey control of your cadastre/parcel base, and validate road names from the gazetteer vs. BC Assessment vs. cadastre map labels vs. the street signs. The Road Atlas navigation data will enable you to take advantage of sophisticated site planning and other traffic and growth planning applications. The Road Atlas data set will provide you with a suitable layer for browsing and viewing, and more. We win because we get to improve the quality of our database, and to more easily monitor changes. We will still GPS survey every new road, and do our QA. We simply expect that now we will be more focused. We both win as we work together to resolve ambiguities within either data base. The taxpayers win because there is no need for you to spend scarce dollars to re-create what we have already done, and by all accounts, done well. Finally your residents win when it counts the most; our 911 mapping is better for the police & ambulance and eventually fire dispatch centres.

The Road Atlas of BC is used for emergency dispatching (911) extensively throughout BC. In fact, by next year over 70% of 911 calls will be geographically located within the radio rooms of the emergency service providers (ECOMM, RCMP, BC Ambulance, local Fire) using the Road Atlas of BC that we supply them. This means that the accuracy and reliability of the Road Atlas is a key part of the operational effectiveness of emergency services throughout BC. This includes areas with 911, and those without, because all areas still have police and ambulance protection regardless of the phone number.

Our Road Atlas project has the close involvement of the Base Mapping and Geomatic Services Branch (formerly GDBC), of the Ministry of Sustainable Resource Management. Other key users include BC Elections, ICBC (for their crash intervention program), Ministry of Transportation, several utilities, and other government and non-government users. The result is that many users, including government users, are all more effective at delivering their services to you and your residents because of the Road Atlas.

NO. This is for "internal usage" only. You cannot give or sell our Road Atlas to any other party, such as other mapping companies, provincial agencies (most-all will have their own license) and school districts (presently an overall deal for schools is being offered via the Province). You can provide access to the data for contractors and consultants while they are working exclusively on your behalf.

YES. "External usage" is open to discussion. The only anticipated chargeable use is for 9-1-1 (mostly Fire) Dispatch. The fees are a few pennies per person-per annum as defined by:

• 1.2^¢ per person – per annum for municipalities between 100,000 and 300,000,
• 1.5^¢ per person – per annum for municipalities between 50,000 and 100,000,
• 2.0^¢ per person – per annum for municipalities between 20,000 and 50,000,
• 2.5^¢ per person – per annum for municipalities between 10,000 and 20,000,
• 3.0^¢ per person – per annum for municipalities under 10,000, and
• 4.0^¢ per person – per annum for the folks outside of incorporated areas.

To be fair, we are using your information in a very limited way for logistics and QA. Your emergency dispatch usage is 7 days a week, 24 hours a day. Also consider, the information and cooperation we want is the same that most local governments now give the utilities, but you don’t get free phones, gas or electricity. Finally the rates to you are so low, that if/when you do finally pay for dispatch, you are only paying a small fraction of what this program costs us to maintain. How can this be? The Province, ICBC, 911 users, utilities and others are also contributing. Collectively, this works.

YES. A bundle agreement is available. Provided all the incorporated municipalities co-sign, one agreement can be written up. The dispatch fees are then based by counting each head only once.

The standard agreement is for 3 years, and is renewable.

Bob Janowicz at bobj@gis–innovations.bc.ca or

Hans Utzig at hans_u@gis–innovations.bc.ca

GIS Innnovations Ltd.

310-1200 West 73^rd Avenue

Vancouver, BC, V6P 6G5

phone (604) 261-1017 OR fax (604) 261-1097