A new guide called Complete Streets has been released that will help Australian planners better design public roads and the spaces around them. The document, produced by Parsons Brinckerhoff alongside the Institute of Public Works Engineering Australia, is intended as a ‘how-to’ kit for designers, planners, policy-makers and engineers. Steven Burgess from the PlaceMaking […]

Two women took the top awards at last month’s Spatial Information Day, with Adelaide University’s Alice Baker winning the SASEA Undergraduate/Graduate Project Award for her honours thesis "Spectral Sensing of Soils Using the HyLogger Core Scanner."   Meanwhile Dr Dorothy Turner, also of Adelaide University, won the SASEA Postgraduate Research Award for her thesis, entitled […]

Spatial data firm 1Spatial has appointed Guy Perkins as managing director for Asia-Pacific, as part of a new drive to further strengthen relations with the firm's existing customer base and partner community, and to identify new market opportunities in the Australian and New Zealand region. Prior to his current appointment Perkins held various executive management […]

  The Philippine government is about to complete a geohazard mapping project that will identify safety threats around the Zamboanga Peninsula. The five-year project was undertaken by the Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB), beginning in 2005, according to Emma Deverala, the agency's information officer. "So far, we have assessed almost 87 per cent of the […]