Every address. Every road. Every boundary. Current. This page is the full picture: what GIVE runs in the browser, what happens as you edit, and what ships to the systems that depend on your data.
Built for agencies without a GIS department
You don’t need a GIS department. You need about five hours.
- Guided workflows, anomaly queues, and wizards that explain the problem and the fix.
- Work in data grids, data cards, maps, the Resolution Center, or the interactive MSAG alignment view, whichever fits the task.
- Typically productive after roughly five hours of training; A3i street-name parsing in about ten minutes.
Many agencies have no dedicated GIS staff and rely on 9-1-1 coordinators, contractors, addressing staff, or people with limited GIS experience. GIVE does not replace GIS expertise, but it makes routine maintenance reachable for a much broader range of users through guided workflows, visual interfaces, anomaly queues, editing wizards, and immediate feedback that explains both the problem and the way to resolve it.
Work across boundaries
NG9-1-1 data doesn’t stop at the county line. Neither does GIVE.
- Own your data. Every agency keeps full editing authority, always.
- Control who edits what, by jurisdiction, role, or geographic boundary.
- Cross-boundary conditions appear in both agencies’ QC counts the moment they arise.
- The state sees the whole picture without taking anything from the locals.
GIVE’s hub-and-spoke architecture connects local agencies as spokes to a regional or statewide hub. Road centerlines, address points, service boundaries, and postal communities cross jurisdictional lines, and GIVE treats them that way: each agency retains ownership and editing authority over its own data, the state gains visibility across every jurisdiction, and any condition that crosses a boundary appears in both agencies’ quality control counts. Next: shared bookmarks with integrated messaging.
Bring your integrator. Keep the keys.
- One secure login across every client environment; accounts stay separated.
- Integrators can edit, validate, resolve, import, export, publish, and restore. They cannot change validation rules.
- The agency owner approves every invitation and assigns every role. Everything is audited.
Many agencies rely on outside GIS professionals or regional service providers. The Integrator Role lets an authorized provider work across multiple client environments through a single secure login while accounts stay separated. All integrator activity is recorded through the same transaction and audit framework used for internal users, so specialist expertise never costs the agency control.
Validate as you edit
Feedback as you edit. Not a report three weeks later.
- Phased validation: schema, then topology, then domain, then content.
- Anomalies grouped by class, so root causes are fixed before downstream effects.
- QC lives inside the editor. Nothing is bolted on after submission.
Compliance language is inconsistent across the industry, so we are precise about ours: GIVE-Verified™ is our term for NG9-1-1 GIS data maintained in GIVE that has passed the platform’s validation rules, had identified anomalies resolved in workflow rather than downstream, and aligns to the current NENA GIS data model. It describes the condition of data within GIVE. It is not an external certification, an independent audit, or an endorsement by any standards body.
PACT: validation tells you what’s wrong. PACT tells you what to fix first.
- Priority: boundaries before centerlines, centerlines before address points, causes before symptoms.
- Anchoring: lower-order geography reconciled against validated higher-order geography.
- Collaboration: shared edges coordinated with the neighbor, never resolved unilaterally.
- Topology: geometric integrity first; dependent relationships after.
Content validation rules carry a PACT classification identifying where each condition sits in that order, so correcting one authoritative source can resolve or prevent many downstream findings. Fewer edits, less revalidation.
See where every address should sit on its road.
- GIVE calculates the expected location from ranges, parity, street identity, and zones, and draws the connector.
- No match, multiple matches, parity conflicts, and name discrepancies show on the map, not in a report.
- Centerlines are authoritative; address points inherit their attributes, so you edit far fewer points.
Dynamic Fishbone makes the relationship between an address point and its road centerline visible. Using address ranges, parity, street identity, zonal values, and dynamic segmentation, GIVE calculates where an address should fall along the road and draws a connector to that expected location.
Fix gaps and overlaps without a desktop GIS seat.
- Gap, overlap, and sliver detection with full topology validation, in the browser.
- Automated repair of qualifying intra-layer conditions; vertex-level editing for the rest.
- The Boundary Wizard walks the user through maintenance.
Fixing topology has traditionally meant a desktop GIS seat and someone who knows how to use it. GIVE removes that requirement for boundary maintenance. Next: interlayer automated repair, shared-boundary editing at the topology level, boundary alignment, and guided correction.
Normalize every street name in a day.
- One pass produces both the legacy four-field and the NG9-1-1 eight-field structures.
- Results sorted into parsed, suggested corrections, unrecognized, and manual overrides. Overrides are kept for transparency.
- Typically 95-98% on the first pass; remaining exceptions cleared without retraining the model.
A3i is GIVE’s machine-learning street-name parsing engine, built for NG9-1-1. It builds a master street-name list from road centerlines and address points, then parses each name into directional prefixes, pre-types, separators, names, types, post-directions, and the remaining components. Many agencies complete street-name normalization within a day.
Keep what’s yours
GAIN: define a name once. Every agency inherits it.
- Preloaded with the applicable NENA registry values.
- Sanctioned aliases: Maricopa and Maricopa County resolve to one entity without weakening the standard.
- Containment built in: the City of Yuma sits within Yuma County within Arizona. The state publishes; each agency inherits and extends.
- Local additions stay local. The shared standard stays consistent.
Geometry, Alias, Inheritance, Names. GAIN is GIVE’s authoritative domain framework, governing spatial and non-spatial values together: state, county, and municipal boundaries with their geometry, alongside place names and street-name components. A single place name can be tagged to more than one community type (city, county, MSAG, unincorporated, or postal).
Keep your schema. Keep your fields. Keep one dataset.
- Lossless mapping preserves every original field and value, including attributes outside the NENA model, fully editable.
- One record, viewed through local, state, NENA, or legacy MSAG and ALI perspectives. Labels change; the record doesn’t.
- Most agencies onboarded within 24 hours.
Traditional standardization forces agencies to restructure data, drop fields, or maintain a second dataset. GIVE does not. Configurable mappings connect the preserved local schema to the applicable state and NG9-1-1 schemas, and source data is normalized during onboarding. One source of truth, no duplication.
Every edit recorded. Every restore previewed before it happens.
- User, timestamp, field changes, and geometry changes, filterable by user or time frame.
- Restore a transaction when no later edit depends on it, and preview the effect before committing.
- System logs for broader recovery.
These controls support accountability and controlled recovery, without implying every transaction can always be reversed.
Deliver everywhere
Publish once. Every system that needs it gets it.
- Services: WFS, WMS, WMTS, OGC API Features, OGC Geocoding, REST, Esri-compatible feature services, vector tiles, GeoJSON.
- Files and reports: file geodatabases, MSAG and ALI CSV, PDF validation, compliance, and MSAG change reports.
- Consumes live Esri and OGC services as reference layers, and Critical Response Group indoor mapping through PlanView.
- Access controlled by API key.
NG9-1-1 data has to be usable beyond the environment where it is maintained. GIVE Location Services connects managed data to authorized GIS and public-safety systems. The result is fewer repetitive manual transfers and controlled access to current information.
Keep MSAG and ALI honest all the way through the transition.
- Flags discrepancies across MSAG, ALI, centerlines, address points, community values, ranges, and parity.
- Interactive alignment view: point and balance MSAG ranges against road features.
- Catalogs every MSAG and ALI change and generates the change report for the MSAG coordinator.
The transition to NG9-1-1 does not end coordination with legacy records. Legacy Sync analyzes, validates, recalculates, visualizes, and documents; it does not independently update external legacy systems.
Frequently asked questions
What is GIVE?
GIVE (Geospatial Integration, Validation and Editing) is a browser-based platform for maintaining NG9-1-1 GIS data. It validates each edit as it is made against the NENA NG9-1-1 GIS Data Model, and lets local, regional, and state agencies work on shared data while each agency keeps ownership of its own.
Does GIVE require ArcGIS Pro or a desktop GIS?
No. Gap, overlap, and sliver detection, topology validation, intra-layer automated repair, and vertex-level editing all run in the browser. Agencies that keep records of authority in a desktop GIS can continue to do so.
Do we have to change our schema?
No. Lossless schema mapping preserves original fields and values, including attributes outside the NENA model, and the same record can be viewed through local, state, NENA, or legacy MSAG and ALI perspectives.
How does GIVE handle data that crosses county or PSAP boundaries?
Each agency keeps editing authority over its own data. A condition that crosses a boundary appears in both agencies’ quality control counts, and conditions along shared edges are coordinated rather than resolved unilaterally.
What is GIVE-Verified™?
Gistic’s term for NG9-1-1 GIS data maintained in GIVE that has passed the platform’s validation rules, had identified anomalies resolved in workflow, and aligns to the current NENA GIS data model. It describes the condition of data within GIVE and is not an external certification, audit, or endorsement by any standards body.
What is PACT?
PACT (Priority, Anchoring, Collaboration, Topology) is GIVE’s resolution methodology: the order in which conditions are resolved so that correcting one authoritative source resolves or prevents many downstream findings.
How long does onboarding take?
Most agencies are onboarded within twenty-four hours. Agencies with limited GIS experience are typically productive after roughly five hours of training.
How is GIVE priced?
By population served, so smaller agencies pay proportionally less. Contact Gistic for a quote or a no-cost trial.