Melbourne’s spatially-enabled city management system won top honours in Victoria’s annual Spatial Excellence Awards. The system, known as Compass, combines and integrates location-based information with the latest mapping, aerial and ground-level imagery and geospatial information technology into a single system that can be accessed by council staff and registered users. It is used by […]

  Mibazaar maps the tweets from the Commonwealth Games. All Thing Spatial has a user guide to Australian postcodes. GIS Development points out that some old Soviet spy maps have been published. The Google Geo Developers Blog has some great examples of styled maps. And in other news, New Zealand has launched its new elections […]

  All Things Spatial tells us about an RTA project to map New South Wales traffic conditions in real-time. NASA and the US geological survey have launched the stunning Earth-as-Art site. GIS Development News reports China has drawn the world’s first land cover map of Antarctica. And…that a project has been announced to launch three […]

  Mibazaar maps the path of the Delhi baton relay at the Commonwealth Games. The All Points Blog mourns the loss of free postcode widgets in Australia. Googlemapsmania has a cool new widget that shows you how for you can afford to fly. Strange Maps reports on magical drumming maps. The Map Room tells us […]

  The Surveying and Spatial Sciences Institute (SSSI) has clarified its position on the national broadband rollout. This follows last week’s report on Spatial Source that the SSSI was raising concerns with Malcolm Turnbull that the national broadband rollout could interfere with the cadastral survey infrastructure. The article quoted remarks from president Jonathan Saxon’s speech […]

  The Northern Territory is experiencing a serious lack of surveying talent that can only be remedied with local education options, according to Darwin surveying firm Fyfe JMA. Attracting skilled surveyors to Darwin and then retaining them is proving extremely difficult from for the firm because of strong competition from other states and the mining […]

  Scientists at the University of Sydney are doing new research using spatial technologies to help predict the behaviour of locusts. Locusts are a serious threat to crop yields, especially after heavy rains such as those seen this winter, and predicting their movement could help the Australian Plague Locust Commission apply insecticide to swarms more […]

  Clients of projects firm Sinclair Knight Merz (SKM) will soon have access to the latest in mobile 3D laser scanning technology. A Riegl VMX-250 mobile laser scanning system, purchased earlier this year by SKM through Australian distributor CR Kennedy, is the first of its type in Australia and is now available for use on […]

  The Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF) has awarded Spatial Vision the contract for the provision of application hosting, support and development services for its disease tracking application.  Biosirt (Biosecurity, Surveillance, Incident Response and Tracing) is a nationally administered, web-based application for the management of incidents of disease, pests or residues in plants, […]