Shared situational awareness in a disaster relies on the underlying principles of consistency across jurisdictions. Within Australia there is currently no agreed standardised All Hazards symbology set used to represent features on a map. With extensive bushfires, major riverine and flash flooding, frequent severe storms, cyclones, major storm surges the Emergency Services sector in Australia is experiencing […]
January 4, 2012
I worked for two years on the SASIG, representing the interests of emergency services in what has been a major overhaul of this Standard, published November 2011. The trickier problem of legacy addresses The new AS/NZS 4819 was developed as best practice for the assignment of new addresses, but the thousands of problem ‘legacy’ addresses […]
December 6, 2011
Novice users of the new Queensland Community Intelligence Map (CIM) can stymied by the small things. For those who are comfortable using Googlemaps the CIM is very intuitive, but to make GIS more accessible to a wider audience sometimes a newbie starter kit can help! (This will be a work in progress…I’ll try to add content when […]
October 1, 2011
I was unable to attend but it looked like a great event. Here’s are a couple of interesting items (more at http://www.Georabble.com) Maps that don’t suck Here are some of the inspiring maps that Stephen Lead mentioned on the night: New York Times census explorer Stamen Maps crimespotting Suburban Trends Atlas of New South Wales Sydney Wiki […]
Content development about government and industry activities to spatially enable society. Hopefully an opportunity to help break through some of the mystery and present content in a straight-forward way.
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March 18, 2012
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