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 […]

  Geospatial analysis has helped reveal new information on how best to improve mosquito control efforts in the Northern Territory, according to a new study. The joint study by researchers from Charles Darwin University and the Centre for Disease Control monitored the spraying of the habitats of the northern salt marsh mosquito in coastal wetlands […]

Spatial information was a key part in the development of the Murray-Darling Basin plan, the first stage of which was released late llast week. The plan aims to restore flows to rivers in the Murray-Darling Basin by setting limits on water use across the basin. The Murray-Darling Basin covers more than 1 million square kilometres, […]

Europe’s rival to the US GPS network, known as Galileo, is late, over budget, and will not be profitable for years, according to reports in the German press. The 32-satellite system was expected to deliver geographical positioning data accurate to one metre by 2018, with the first satellites being launched next year. The European Commission […]

    Spatial Vision announces its new four wheel drive series: GIS Lounge has some tips on a career in GIS: Mapperz has some info on a Video version of Street View: The Map Room links rural schools and rural poverty in the US. And Urban Tick has a post on ecological urbanism.