The New South Wales Government Chief Information Office is asking the public what data it wants opened up in an upcoming refresh of the state's public data catalogue. DataNSW asked for suggestions through a Twitter post last week to over 350 followers. “Catalogue is due for a refresh. Any ideas?” said the post. Interested parties […]

  Lasers will be used as part of a 12-month study of the Mary River near Darwin aimed at providing a better understanding of how rising sea levels will affect the area. Civil engineers from Charles Darwin University are leading the project on behalf of the Territory government to assess the effectiveness of several man-made […]

    The All Points Blog has some updates on how GIS technology is being used in the health sector in the US. Meanwhile the Map Room has a fascinating post about the world’s aquatic dead zones. And Spatial Vision tells us about the grimly inevitable Web 3.0. In the UK, the British Library has […]

The Australian Standard Geographical Classification (ASGC) has launched a new digital product which outlines the official boundaries for a number of different regions. The new product includes boundaries of local government areas, statistical local areas, statistical divisions, statistical subdivisions, states, statistical districts, major statistical regions, statistical regions and statistical region sectors, as of July 2010. […]

A Wisconsin court has given approval for police to monitor a suspect through the use of a GPS. The state’s Supreme Court decision involved the case of a man who was booked for stalking his ex-girlfriend, based on data from a GPS, which was installed on his car without his knowedge. The police used the […]

Thirty-three Indian secondary schools are piloting courses teaching the use of geospatial technologies. Kapil Sabal, India’s minister for human resource and development launched the new courses last week. “We need to prepare our children for the 21st century, which is going to be a century of enormous challenges,” he said. “Both school and university education […]

A new method for predicting dust and sandstorms using infrared satellite images has been developed by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh in the US. The scientists have been able to determine when destructive sandstorms are likely to occur. They used their methods to accurately forecast a large 2008 dust storm in New Mexico, two […]