Reference papers on NG9-1-1 GIS data and the GIVE platform. Written for 9-1-1 coordinators, county GIS and addressing staff, state program managers, and the people who advise them. Free to read and forward.
Whitepaper 1
Beyond Integration
The GIVE Vision for NG9-1-1
Gistic Research, Inc. · August 2026
How GIVE is built: validation and correction in the same edit, the GAIN domain controller, the PACT resolution methodology, A3i address parsing, lossless schema mapping, and publication through open services. The platform paper.
Whitepaper 2
Collaboration and NG9-1-1
Why NG9-1-1 GIS data is a shared responsibility, and how GIVE is built for it
Brian Brady, GISP · October 2026 · About 17 minutes
The NG9-1-1 standards assume neighboring agencies coordinate their data; most workflows do not. This paper maps who touches the data and what each participant needs, what the collaboration gap is costing states that have measured it, the five models states have adopted, and how GIVE builds collaboration into the data environment itself.