The Queensland town of Bell will be mapped using a number of different techniques as part of a new project by the Surveying and Spatial Sciences Institute’s Queensland Young Professionals Committee (SSSIQ YPs). The MapMyTown scheme aims to use as many available spatial and surveying technologies and methods as possible to build spatial resources and […]

  Scientists in New Zealand are using new techniques to interpret the history of undersea earthquakes occurring on major fault lines around New Zealand. The researchers are using acoustic soundings to analyse the history of undersea fault’s activity. Investigation of faults on land and what they reveal about their earthquake history is an established discipline, […]

    The Cody Corporation of Adelaide, South Australia has recently appointed Geoffrey Cahill to the role of national sales manager to be based out of Sydney. Cahill’s efforts will focus on the newly released products from Ashtech and Nikon but will also include the many other brands represented by Cody in Australia. This will […]

  Strange Maps has an interesting post on the usefulness of Australian land. GIS User reports on OpenTreeMap. You guessed it, it’s OpenStreetMap for trees. Google Geo Developers has some very cool styled maps. Urban Tick puts the modern city under the microscope.

  NearMap.com is the latest firm to be appointed to the Australian government’s geospatial supplier panel. The panel is intended to help federal, state and local government agencies who want quick access to geospatial data avoid a lengthy tender process. Although individual agencies who want to access data will still have to negotiate prices and […]

  Rio Tinto this week announced a new underground tunnelling system is ready for trial at Northparkes copper and gold mine in the Central West of New South Wales in 2012. The system will use underground positioning technologies to ensure a high level of accuracy. The tunnel boring system (TBS) is based on the standard […]