What is AMDSP
The Alberta Municipal Data Sharing Partnership is a Partnership of Alberta Municipalities, which is guided by a volunteer board, elected by the membership. This partnership is comprised of both Urban & Rural Municipalities from across Alberta. These municipalities recognize the benefit and the need for developing & supporting data that contains local knowledge.
Vision
The Alberta Municipal Data Sharing Partnership facilitates and champions a province-wide common standard for addressing and municipal data.
Mission
The Alberta Municipal Data Sharing Partnership promotes the creation and sharing of accurate and standardized municipal data for the betterment of emergency, public and private Industry applications throughout the Province of Alberta.
Values
The AMDSP identifies the following core values in our work:
Open Data
The AMDSP makes data broadly accessible, at low or no cost to use and access. The barriers to sharing and aggregating data are minimal.
Safety
Albertans are safer and more secure with the presence of an accepted data standard that makes it easier for emergency and first responders to find out where they need to go in the event of and emergency.
Public Service
The AMDSP enhances the ability of municipalities to provide high quality services most efficiently to rate-payers.
Economic Development
Open data and common standards are sources of competitive advantage for Alberta and municipalities that participate.
Collaboration
The AMDSP believes that co-operative efforts lead to the best results. Integrated data provides the foundational data for better decision-making, and a source for 'truth' in decision making.
Quality
To be credible, the AMDSP believes data needs to be reviewed and assessed for quality to ensure that it is usable and effective.
Open Data
The AMDSP makes data broadly accessible, at low or no cost to use and access. The barriers to sharing and aggregating data are minimal.
Safety
Albertans are safer and more secure with the presence of an accepted data standard that makes it easier for emergency and first responders to find out where they need to go in the event of and emergency.
Public Service
The AMDSP enhances the ability of municipalities to provide high quality services most efficiently to rate-payers.
Economic Development
Open data and common standards are sources of competitive advantage for Alberta and municipalities that participate.
Collaboration
The AMDSP believes that co-operative efforts lead to the best results. Integrated data provides the foundational data for better decision-making, and a source for 'truth' in decision making.
Quality
To be credible, the AMDSP believes data needs to be reviewed and assessed for quality to ensure that it is usable and effective.
History
As early as 2007, the need to create and maintain a standardized digital dataset to support emergency vehicle dispatch and routing within the province was recognized. This resulted in the formation of the Southern Alberta Emergency Routing Project.
Some of the unique developments or benefits of SAERP resulted in the generation of shared address points, points of interest and a single road network; and the development of a data mapping specification for emergency services.
Province-wide municipal support for integration and sharing of emergency data is building. From 2007 to 2010, the number of participating organizations in SAERP grew from 9 to 37. In response to this growth, Members renamed the project to AMDSP and have extended an invitation to municipalities across Alberta to join the Partnership.
Some of the unique developments or benefits of SAERP resulted in the generation of shared address points, points of interest and a single road network; and the development of a data mapping specification for emergency services.
Province-wide municipal support for integration and sharing of emergency data is building. From 2007 to 2010, the number of participating organizations in SAERP grew from 9 to 37. In response to this growth, Members renamed the project to AMDSP and have extended an invitation to municipalities across Alberta to join the Partnership.