Matt Laick has moved from DelDOT over to the Department of Safety and Homeland Security (DSHS) to serve as GIS Coordinator for Delaware’s E911 division. DSHS Secretary Lewis Schiliro made the announcement yesterday at the E911 Emergency Services Board Meeting.
Matt, who has served as GIS and addressing administrator in Sussex County and more recently helped guide GIS use in DelDOT’s IT section, will now work with the state’s nine PSAPs (Public Safety Answering Points, the 911 centers) to make sure that they have access to the best GIS data we can provide as they handle our emergencies and send police, fire fighters and emergency medical folks to help us when we need them.
The idea for a 911 GIS Coordinator grew out of work that Matt and others, particularly the County GIS teams, have done to help the 911 centers in the past. The PSAPs are one of the places where all of our data sets meet and must work well together for the sake of people’s health and safety; from the addressing and road information maintained by the counties to the statewide aerials and other data sets.
That’s Matt’s new job and we wish him great success.
Delaware’s GIS community now has a spot on the web dedicated to sharing geospatial data and metadata. The 
