The interactive touch-screen table also will allow officials to access digital floor plans of all of the city's buildings taller than 540 feet instead of flipping through pages of blueprints.
The technology allows users to pull up building plans, floor by floor.
City officials expect the map to be capable of displaying 3-D models of virtually every building in Chicago within 3 to 4 months. And, in 12 to 18 months, Chicago's entire surveillance camera network should be linked to the table, allowing city officials to view everything from a street corner in the Loop to the inside of an airport terminal.
The only other government agency with such technology is the Department of Defense, he said.
Once the system is fully operational, it will provide Chicago officials a central location where they can make quicker and better decisions on where to send police, fire and emergency vehicles and personnel in the case of an incident such as Thursday's train and bus bombings in London.
In the event of a major disaster, officials will also have access to real-time weather data, including temperature, humidity, and wind speed and direction.
