Every Damage Assessment, Every Shelter, Every Crew — On One Map
Field teams fill the PDA form on the phone with geotagged photos, offline. The EOC sees every assessed structure on the map as crews reconnect. The PDF export goes into the SITREP, the PDA package and the reimbursement file.
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Sound familiar?
The response works. The paperwork after it is what fails.
The PDA package is built from windshield-survey notes
Three days after the storm, the county has to hand the state a preliminary damage assessment. What it has is a stack of clipboards, a shared photo album with no addresses, and a spreadsheet three people edited. Every "Major" gets argued.
Photos without an address are not evidence
A photo from a group chat has no coordinates, no time and no author. The Public Assistance reviewer asks which structure it shows and when. Nobody knows. The line item comes out of the claim.
Force account hours reconstructed from memory
FEMA reimburses labor you can document: who, where, from when until when. Crews worked 14-hour days for a week. The timesheets get filled the following Monday — from memory.
The EOC map is a whiteboard
Which streets were assessed? Which shelters are open, and how full? Who is in the flooded zone right now? The answers are on a radio net and a whiteboard. The 18:00 SITREP is compiled by phone.
Mutual-aid crews arrive with their own forms
A neighboring county sends a crew. They do good work and document it their way — on paper, in their own app. Merging it into your damage inventory takes longer than the assessment did.
What the reimbursement file needs
Each requirement of the sector and where it is satisfied — without a crew chief having to remember it at hour 14.
Location, date and photo evidence per damaged site
FEMA Public Assistance · damage inventory
Every photo carries coordinates, altitude, date, time and author inside the file and sits on the structure record it was taken for.
Damage classification per residence
FEMA PDA · Affected / Minor / Major / Destroyed
A required choice field in the assessment template; filter the map by category and count per sector.
Force account labor hours
FEMA Public Assistance · force account
Hours per person per sector from GPS presence and the timesheet, with labour cost and an approval flow.
Activity log per unit and operational period
ICS 214 · Activity Log
Tasks with assignee, status and timestamps, plus the daily GPS route per person, exported as a PDF per operational period.
Situation report per operational period
EOC · SITREP
A report template built from the records: assessed structures, open shelters, road closures and occurrences, counted by status and sector.
Shared picture with mutual-aid partners and the state
NIMS · mutual aid
Access profiles per folder: a partner crew edits its sector, the state EOC reads the whole incident.
Built for emergency management and storm response
The same product county EOCs, volunteer agencies and utility storm teams use: assessments, shelters, crews and hours on one map.
Incident Map with Impact Layers
Each incident is a folder with the impact area drawn on the map. Flood extent, evacuation zones and parcel layers come in as Shapefile, KML or GeoJSON, or WMS by URL. Same map on web and phone.
PDA and Shelter Forms on the Phone
One template per assessment type: residential PDA, public infrastructure, shelter status, road closure. Required fields, damage categories, photos with coordinates, voice dictation.
Works With the Cell Network Down
Forms, photos, GPS and hours are saved on the device and keep the time they were filled. They sync when the crew reaches signal — a staging area, a mobile command post.
Exports for the PDA Package and PA Claims
PDF reports built from the records: per structure, per sector, per incident. A review-and-approval step before an assessment counts. Share one sector with a mutual-aid partner or the state without exposing the rest.
Assessment Templates in 90 Seconds
Jos.IA sets up folders, forms and status categories from your own terminology and PDA sheet. It also answers "how many Major in sector 4?" from the records.
Force Account Hours from GPS Presence
Daily route per person, automatic arrival and departure per sector, hours per person per incident with labour cost — the documentation reimbursement asks for.
A damage assessment operation, day two
From the first windshield survey to the PDA package and the after-action report — every assessed structure on the map, every hour documented.
Impact area drawn, assessment templates ready
The EOC opens an incident folder and draws the impact area on the map. Flood extent from the state comes in as KML. Jos.IA builds the assessment form from your own PDA sheet — damage category, occupancy, insured, photos — in about 90 seconds.
Sectors assigned to assessment teams
Each team gets a sector as a sub-folder and a task list: structures to assess, shelters to check, road closures to confirm. They open the map on the phone and see only their sector.
Assessment filled at the doorstep, offline
Address, damage category (Affected / Minor / Major / Destroyed), water line height, photos with coordinates and time baked into the file. Notes dictated with a gloved hand. No signal needed — it syncs at the staging area.
The map fills in as crews reconnect
Every assessed structure appears on the map with its status. Filter by "Destroyed", lasso a subdivision, count. The 18:00 SITREP is a report template, not a phone tree.
PDA package, force account labor, after-action
Export the damage inventory as PDF with photos and coordinates. Hours per person per sector come from GPS site presence and the timesheet. The same records feed the after-action report.
See it in action
This is what Geodocs looks like for your team every day.
Zone A
Flood Area — Critical
Create assessment forms before disaster strikes
Pre-configure field assessment templates so your teams can hit the ground running. Damage surveys, resource inventories, population assessments — ready to fill on the phone even without internet.
Damage Assessment
Zone A
Works where other tools don't
Built offline-first. Your team collects data without signal — photos, GPS, forms, reports. Everything syncs the moment connectivity returns. No data lost. Ever.