Awards to organisations For awards to individuals please see separate article.   Innovation and Commercialisation Award: Services Mapping Using Ground Penetrating RADAR – Whelans InSites   This project employed a new method of determining the reliable location of underground assets. It is especially useful where no information – or inaccurate information – exists. Judges stated […]

The seventh annual Asia Pacific Spatial Excellence Awards, held at the gala dinner during spatial@gov 2010 conference in Canberra, celebrated the pinnacle of success for the spatial industry.   The awards are hosted jointly by the Surveying and Spatial Sciences Institute and the Spatial Industries Business Association. These awards continue to provide an opportunity for […]

The capability of spatial data is so relevant for the public and private sectors a federal minister has pleaded its case, giving the technologies a push into horizontal markets and the mainstream. Opening spatial@gov forum on Wednesday, the Honourable Martin Ferguson, Federal Minister for Resources and Energy and Tourism, assured a business and government audience […]

 The Office for Spatial Data Management (OSDM) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC).   OSDM is currently working to unite the standards work being done by organisations across Australia, such as Defence Imagery and Geospatial Organisation (DIGO), Cooperative Research Centre Spatial Information (CRCSI), Public Sector Mapping Agencies (PSMA) Australia […]

  One of the standouts of the many excellent products and services on display at the spatial@gov conference was Tasmanian company Geometry IT’s iGIS for the iPhone and iPad.   iGIS allows iPhone and iPad owners to load, view and add their own data over the Google map satellite imagery.   Spatial data can be loaded […]

  The spatial@gov 2010 conference, which concluded on Thursday, served to highlight the importance of the spatial industry to Australia’s economic and social well-being and progress.   The Hon Martin Ferguson AM MP, Minister for Resources and Energy gave the opening speech in which he recognised the outstanding degree of collaboration that is a feature […]

  NAVTEQ, the global provider of maps, traffic and location data enabling navigation, location-based services and mobile advertising around the world, has announced at the spatial@gov conference in Canberra that it has completed an Enterprise Reseller Agreement with the Esri Australia group, providers of location intelligence solutions with more than 33 years of experience. With […]

  At the spatial@gov conference, mapping services provider Sensis has announced a partnership that will boost its mapping product line-up by signing a joint agreement with photo and terrain mapping provider NearMap.com to provide aerial imagery with its maps.   The aerial imagery (called PhotoMaps) provided by NearMap.com will add significant value to Sensis’ existing range […]