The City of Kingston in Melbourne has been presented with the 2025 Vicmap Custodianship Award for excellence.
The Award recognises data custodian organisations and individuals who “demonstrate exceptional dedication” to maintaining and improving Vicmap, Victoria’s foundational authoritative spatial data.
In this case, the City of Kingston was singled out as a leader for showing how local governments can successfully align its road register data with Vicmap Transport and thereby support seamless integration.
The award was received by Juan Pufleau, Senior Spatial and Data Analyst, and Peter Bean, Chief Executive Officer at City of Kingston.
“With gratitude, we present the 2025 Vicmap Custodianship Award to the City of Kingston and Juan Pufleau,” said Matthew Barber, Executive Director Spatial Services and Planning Solutions, Department of Transport and Planning.
“We recognise your inspiring commitment to data stewardship and thank you for your ongoing contributions.”
The award was presented at the end of the October Vicmap Users Reference Group (VURG) meeting.
VURG membership is open to Victoria’s community of spatial data custodians and practitioners. For more information, email vicmap@transport.vic.gov.au.
Vicmap is described as being “Victoria’s state-wide portfolio of authoritative spatial data products,” with a vision to deliver “trusted spatial intelligence for Victoria”.
It has undergone a five-year spatial upgrade process as part of the state’s Digital Cadastre Modernisation project, and comprises the number one ranked datasets Data.Vic, being accessed more than 100 million times per year.
