The Texas A&M University (TAMU) GeoInnovation Service Center has been authorized by TAMU to provide assistance to the national and international public health communities by providing free and unlimited access to the TAMU Geocoding Platform for COVID-19 public health-related surveillance, treatment, and control in the United States.
If you are a public health official, academic researcher or student, or employee of a for-profit, non-profit, or government organization working on COVID-19 tracking, prevention, control, surveillance, or other efforts, you may request access to free and unlimited geocoding resources from Texas A&M University.
Step 0. Please share this information as widely as you can to help fight COVID-19.
Step 1. Sign up for an account at
https://geoservices.tamu.edu.
Step 2. Fill out your information on the form below to be approved for unlimited and free access to the Texas A&M GeoServices Geocoding Platform for COVID-19 work.
Step 3. We will review your request as soon as possible and add processing credits to your account once approved.
Step 4. For questions, concerns and how-to's, email
daniel.goldberg@tamu.eduImportant Privacy Notes: The TAMU Geocoding Platform is secured, audited, and capable of handling protected health information (PHI/HIPAA data) and participating in Institutional Review Board (IRB) applications from other institutions. TAMU can process Business Associate Agreements (BAA's) for those needing documentation of HIPAA/HITECH compliance. If you and/or your organization need a BAA, contact
daniel.goldberg@tamu.edu. Be advised that negotiating BAA's and IRB's are institutional attorney-to-attorney and IRB-to-IRB processes, and as such has been known to take some time.
Important Service Notes: The TAMU Geocoding Platform is scalable and should be able to support any increases in load due to COVID-19 data processing. The TAMU team is rapidly working to setup a dedicated COVID-19 data processing platform instance. Once in place and cleared by TAMU IT/Security, COVID-19 users will be contacted and directed to process their data using the new dedicated instance. You will see interface changes over the next few days/weeks as we streamline our service delivery for the expected enhanced load.