Imagine you are a call centre operator at an electric utility company. A call comes in reporting a downed powerline in one of the northern suburbs of your city, and an entire neighbourhood is without power. You need to quickly dispatch one of your line repairers to the site, which is almost an hour […]
XXII ISPRS Congress registrations open
By Spatial Source on 26 June, 2012With the support of the ISPRS Technical Commissions, the XXII Congress of the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing – subtitled ‘Imaging a Sustainable Future' – will offer delegates eight exciting days of tutorials, workshops, presentations and technical tours. And of course there will also be an engaging social programme that will […]
McMullen Nolan Group announce new Chief Executive Officer
By Spatial Source on 26 June, 2012McMullen Nolan Group is pleased to announce the appointment of company director Scott Anderson to the position of Chief Executive Officer. Mr Anderson, 46, has more than 25 years surveying experience in large scale subdivisions and engineering projects within Australia and internationally. He joined McMullen Nolan Group in 1990 as a graduate surveyor […]
2012 AIMS National Conference
By Spatial Source on 26 June, 2012The 2012 Australian Institute of Mine Surveyors National Conference will be held at the Sebel Hotel Cairns, Qld, from 8-10 August 2012. The conference will commence with a casual dinner on Wednesday 8th August. Thursday and Friday sessions will address industry topics, and will include presentations from external high profile speakers. Dinner […]
Sinclair Knight Merz appoints new regional manager for WA & NT
By Spatial Source on 26 June, 2012Strategic consulting, design and project delivery firm Sinclair Knight Merz (SKM) has appointed Richard Hayers as Regional Manager, Western Australia/Northern Territory. A civil engineer with over 20 years’ experience in management, design and construction of water infrastructure projects, Richard joined SKM in 1996 in Auckland, New Zealand, after emigrating from the United Kingdom. […]
Esri Australia and ABS sign ELA
By Spatial Source on 26 June, 2012The thousands of Australian organisations who rely on Census data will have greater access to geographic visualisation and analysis tools after the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) and Esri Australia came to an historic agreement. The three year Enterprise Licensing Agreement (ELA) will assist the ABS in improving service delivery of its Census […]
CHC LT400 Submeter GPS Data Collector
By Spatial Source on 26 June, 2012CHC has released the LT400, a compact, rugged and cost-effective handheld submeter real-time GPS receiver for GIS and Mapping Professionals. The LT400 is ready for use with third-party GIS software applications answering to a wide range of applications, such as forestry, utilities and agriculture. Designed for real-world field conditions, the LT400 combines a […]
Best of the Blogs 26 June 2012
By Spatial Source on 26 June, 2012Brought to my attention this week is a post detailing the Atlas of the Suburbs of Sydney. To quote: “a series of late-nineteenth-century commercial maps that provides a portrait of the city during a period of rapid growth and suburbanisation. The maps are also evidence of one of the recurring themes of the mapping […]
18th Association of Public Authority Surveyors Conference (APAS2013)
By Spatial Source on 21 June, 2012The 18th Annual Conference of the Association of Public Authority Surveyors will be held in Canberra on 13th & 14th March 2013. WHEN: 2013-03-13 to 2013-03-14WHERE: CanberraSTATE: ACTCOUNTRY: AUS APAS2013 The Association of Public Authority Surveyors NSW (APAS) was formed in 1994 to cater for the needs of professionals in the surveying and spatial […]
spatial@gov 2012
By Spatial Source on 21 June, 2012In 2012, spatial@gov will explore the theme Future Directions: Linking People, Policy and Place. WHEN: 2012-11-20 to 2012-11-22WHERE: National Convention Centre CanberraSTATE: ACTCOUNTRY: AUS In 2012, spatial@gov® will explore the theme Future Directions: Linking People, Policy and Place. Highly-regarded international and local leaders will speak on the future directions of place-based policies; how these policies, in turn, […]
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