Michael Haines, CEO for Virtual Australia New Zealand Infrastructure is just one of the many exciting speakers presenting at GeoNext. VANZ, VANZI’s main product, will be a true-to-life 3D model of all the major cities in Australia, where planning, consultation, communication, and modelling all take place. It’s like a business- government- and community-focussed […]
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Hemisphere GPS and Carlson Software establish strategic alliance
Hemisphere GPS and Carlson Software recently announced a strategic alliance that will provide a roadmap for new, integrated solutions for land survey, mapping, construction, mining and other key machine control markets. Carlson Software develops field and office-based land development software. This strategic alliance is part of Hemisphere GPS’s recent formation of their survey and […]

Michael Haines, CEO, VANZI confirmed for GeoNext
Michael Haines, CEO for Virtual Australia New Zealand Infrastructure has been confirmed as a speaker at GeoNext. In this presentation Michael will discuss in detail the background to VANZI, its partners across the range of technologies: spatial, simulation, optimisation, visualisation, gaming and building information and city information modelling, as well as government agencies […]

Esri Australia and SSSI form alliance
Two heavyweights of Australia’s $2.1 billion geospatial industry have joined forces in an industry-first partnership designed to expand spatial technology into new, ‘untapped’ markets. GIS specialists, Esri Australia, and the nation’s peak spatial professionals body, the Surveying and Spatial Sciences Institute (SSSI), announced the alliance at the International Surveying and Spatial Sciences Conference […]
spatial@gov 2011 overview
The annual spatial@gov conference, the only geospatial event organised in conjunction with the peak organisations in Australia and New Zealand representing the public, private, research and professional sectors of the spatial community, has now finished for another year. Themes for this year included: water security; spatial@defence; government spatial activities in other countries; access […]
Event: GeoNext Forum
GeoNext is a new forum that addresses the gap between industry and vendor geo events. It aims to connect all traditional users of geo and ‘mash them up’ with emerging ‘neo-geo’ users and communities to inspire, collaborate and redefine what it means to be a geo professional. Imagine seeing geo users from mobile, […]
SPOTMAPS Australia updated
The second version of SPOTMAPS Australia is now available from Astrium GEO-Information Services. More than 5 million square km are already available in its second version, the majority of which is made with data acquired within the last two years. The updated Australian SPOTMAPS now include coverage of Queensland, Northern Territory, Western Australia, […]

New director to lead mining and minerals research at CSIRO
CSIRO has welcomed Jonathan Law to the role of director of the Minerals Down Under National Research Flagship. He brings with him a strong network of government, industry and research contacts, which he has gained through working across the value chain in the resource industry in an operational and research capacity. "I am […]
ESNC 2011 Australian Challenge
The IGNSS Society announces that the European Satellite Navigation Competition 2011 Australian Challenge will run from April 1 to June 30 2011. The €20,000 grand prize in the 2010 European Satellite Navigation Competition (ESNC) went to the Salzburg start-up Mobilizy for its revolutionary navigation system Wikitude Drive, which uses augmented reality to superimpose driving […]

New Zealand navy signs geospatial contract
New Zealand’s Navy has signed a $2m contract with Canada’s OSI Geospatial for the delivery of navigation and tactical systems in partnership with Siemens AG. In 2004, OSI Geospatial delivered an electronic chart navigation system for the New Zealand fleet to make it easier for ships to sense what was around them. Walter Purio, […]
