Enhancements to Products and Tools: Recommendations for Improving FEMA's Product Suite

摘要

FEMA provides products and services to support customer interaction with the NFIP. These products include NFIP map panels and indexes; Letters of Map Change; digital scans of NFIP maps and indexes (FIRMscan data) and related tools; Digital Flood Insurance Rate Map (DFIRM) databases and related tools; and the National Flood Hazard Layer and related tools. These products have similar information content and contain (or provide the information from which to interpret) the information required of customers. Recommended enhancements focus on ensuring that the tools provide a means to identify and print information required for official purposes, ensuring that the tools work with all versions of the products for which they are targeted, improving the usability of the products and tools, and adding capabilities so that the tools support new requirements (such as the display of preliminary data in a way different from that used for effective data).