Designing Maps for the Web

By Spatial Source on 13 May, 2010

JOSE DIACONO Good cartography for online mapping is about what you show, how you show it and how fast. No matter how current and correct your GIS information, such distractions as slow display, spidery fonts, obscure icons or cluttered symbology will turn off an increasingly demanding public. They just need answers. Unfortunately, however, it is […]

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Mapping the Sydney Underground

By Spatial Source on 13 May, 2010

JON FAIRALL Tough new penalties await contractors who interrupt electricity and gas supplies in Sydney. The legislation, which allows for five-year jail terms, has passed through the New South Wales Parliament and is now awaiting Royal Assent. It follows a series of power failures in Sydney’s central business district in March. The legislation is a […]

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Victoria’s Notification and Editing System

By Spatial Source on 13 May, 2010

JOSE DIACONO As a rule, 75 per cent of the cost of a spatial system is in the data. Inevitably, some of this data will change or be wrong, so there are huge benefits to be gained by putting the people who find the problems in touch with those who fix them. At the […]

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NSW Introduces CORS Network

By Spatial Source on 13 May, 2010

JONATHON POWERS The NSW Department of Lands is rolling out a $6 million electronic survey infrastructure. When completed, the entire state will be covered by a network of continuously operating reference stations that receive signals from navigation satellites. The project will increase the absolute accuracy of the survey control network. Currently, the survey […]

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GIS for Participatory Government

By Spatial Source on 13 May, 2010

DEREK TICKNER G-Government describes the combination of GIS and Web 2.0 technologies to improve government services. It is a subset of e-government. Government agencies host map web portals so that citizens can readily find information. Increasingly, individuals are uploading data and ideas to the government. As with Wikipedia, you can consume and contribute information. […]

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Surveying at Sea: Setting Professional Standards

By Spatial Source on 13 May, 2010

SIMON IRONSIDE The Australasian Hydrographic Surveyors Certification Panel is seeking international endorsement for its certification process. If accepted, the process would become the national competency standard for hydrographic surveyors in New Zealand and Australia (subject to regulatory approval) and the certification would be recognised internationally. To this end, the AHSCP has applied to the […]

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Inside GEOSS

By Spatial Source on 13 May, 2010

PARVIZ TARIKHI At the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg in 2002, delegates highlighted the urgency of co-ordinated Earth observation. The following year, the meeting of the Group of Eight leading industrialised countries (the G8) in Evian, France, gave shape to this urgency by setting priorities for Earth observation. These meetings recognised that international […]

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ELMF 2010

By Spatial Source on 11 May, 2010

Lidar Across the Market Spectrum WHEN: 2010-11-30 to 2010-12-01WHERE: The Hague, The NetherlandsSTATE: InternationalCOUNTRY: INT Eurpoean Lidar Mapping Forum http://www.lidarmap.org/ELMF/

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ELMF 2010

By Spatial Source on 11 May, 2010

Lidar Across the Market Spectrum WHEN: 2010-11-30 to 2010-12-01WHERE: The Hague, The NetherlandsSTATE: StateCOUNTRY: INT European Lidar Mapping Forum http://www.lidarmap.org/ELMF/

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GeoTunis 2010

By Spatial Source on 11 May, 2010

The Use of SIG and Remote Sensing for Sustainable Development WHEN: 2010-11-29 to 2010-12-03WHERE: TunisiaSTATE: InternationalCOUNTRY: INT The Tunisian Association of Digital Geographic Information http://www.geotunis.org/2010/

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