Spatial Vision eNewsletter

October 2004 eNewsletter

Welcome to SV News, Spatial Vision's E-Newsletter

SV News is your guide to what's new at Spatial Vision, our services and solutions.

What's New from Spatial Vision?

1. Victorian Image Directory

The Department of Sustainability & Environment recently launched the web-based Victorian Image Directory (VID). Developed by Spatial Vision, the aim of VID is to facilitate the provision of aerial photography and satellite image coverage of Victoria by users in state and local government, and private industry.

For further information http://www.spatialvision.com.au/sv-news91.htm

2. New Address Tool for Australia Post

To streamline the challenge of identifying new addresses, Australia Post has contracted Spatial Vision to develop an Address Reporting Tool (ART) that will identify and report relevant changes in updates of the Victorian Government’s Vicmap spatial datasets. Spatial Vision’s solution includes Nexus, a new product developed by Spatial Vision to enable Australia Post to incrementally update their licensed copy of Vicmap Property and Address on their corporate server.

For further information http://www.spatialvision.com.au/sv-news92.htm

3. Victorian Crematorium Industry Review

Spatial Vision, in conjunction with Marsden Jacob Associates (MJA) and Cumpston Sarjeant Truslove (CST), has been engaged by the Victorian Department of Human Services (DHS) to conduct a review of the Crematorium Industry in Victoria. Spatial Vision’s role was to use spatial analysis techniques to define the areas serviced by each crematorium facility and to forecast future demand for cremations within the State. The review will underpin DHS's planning processes, including evaluation of proposals for the establishment of new crematorium facilities in Victoria.

For further information http://www.spatialvision.com.au/sv-news93.htm

4. Parks Victoria Marine National Park Mapping

Parks Victoria is responsible for the development of management plans for each of Victoria’s new Marine National Parks and Marine Sanctuaries. Given the scale of this undertaking, production of these plans has been staggered over a three year planning period. Parks Victoria has recently selected Spatial Vision to undertake the mapping for the Management Plans for 16 areas.

For further information http://www.spatialvision.com.au/sv-news94.htm

5. RMIT Student Award

As part of our support of the SI industry, Spatial Vision sponsors a student prize at RMIT's Department of Geoscience. In 2004, this prize was awarded at the Geospatial Students Association Annual Dinner. The Spatial Vision prize, for "the 4th Year Bachelor of Applied Science in Geomatics student who demonstrates outstanding academic achievement, character and potential for professional development" was awarded to Tom Miller.

For further information http://www.spatialvision.com.au/sv-news95.htm

6. Spatial Vision's MD joins Victorian Spatial Council

The Geospatial Information Reference Group (GIRG) was established by Land Victoria to provide advice on issues relating to the development and implementation of state-wide spatial information policies, strategies and incentives. It was comprised of representatives from the SI industry, academia and government. The Victorian Spatial Information Strategy (VSIS) has recommended the escalation of this forum to address these issues at a whole-of-government level. Accordingly, the Government, via the office of the new Chief Information Officer, has established a new Victorian Spatial Council.

Spatial Vision's Managing Director, Glenn Cockerton, has been invited to join this Council as a representative of the SI industry.

For further information http://www.spatialvision.com.au/sv-news96.htm

7. Vicmap Planning and Crown Land Data Now Available

Spatial Vision is distributing two new datasets on behalf of the Victorian Department of Sustainability & Environment; Vicmap Planning and Vicmap Crown Land Tenure. Boundaries in both the Planning and Crown Tenure datasets are based on Vicmap Property so the datasets can be overlaid on the cadastre with confidence. Both datasets are updated on a monthly basis.

For further information http://www.spatialvision.com.au/sv-news97.htm

New Projects:

8. Gippsland Water Mobile Application

Gippsland Water is responsible for the provision of high quality water, wastewater and waste recovery services to Central Gippsland in Victoria. To improve the quality of their asset data, Gippsland Water contracted Spatial Vision to develop a custom mobile application using ESRI’s ArcPad. Used by field officers, this application allows the location, size and type of individual water meters to be updated and/or confirmed.

For further information http://www.spatialvision.com.au/sv-news98.htm

9. New Plant Health Protection System

Protecting Victorian plant-based industries, which contribute over $3,200 million annually to the State's economy, is a vital concern of the Plant Standards Branch of the Victorian Department of Primary Industry. All inter- and intra-state movement of plant material by growers, importers and exporters is controlled via various certification and quality assurance programs. Spatial Vision was commissioned to provide the Branch with an integrated state-wide application to manage this movement.

For further information http://www.spatialvision.com.au/sv-news99.htm

10. Wall Map for New Emergency Coordination Centre

The Victorian Emergency Coordination Centre (ECC) is the State’s coordination centre for suppression of wildfire on public land and is crucial to the coordination of an appropriate response to control and suppress wildfires. Spatial Vision produced a new 1:250,000 scale wall-mounted situation map. The map is used to provide an overview of all current fire or emergency situations and encompasses the entire state of Victoria.

For further information http://www.spatialvision.com.au/sv-news910.htm

Conferences:

11. Crime Mapping Seminar, 27/29 Oct, Melbourne University Private, Hawthorn

This Crime Mapping & Analysis Seminar will be held over three days and include local and international presentations. Registrants will hear researchers and practitioners share the latest trends in Crime Mapping Theory, Technology and Practice, encompassing general themes such as Crime Control; Policing; Geographic Profiling and Serial Crime Analysis; Forecasting; Geographic Information Systems; Criminal Justice; Counter Terrorism; and Emergency Management.

Spatial Vision will have a trade stand and will be demonstrating the capability of ESRI GIS’s solutions. For further details on the conference, see http://www.muprivate.edu.au/crimemapping

12. Newtech, 11 November, Ararat Performing Arts Centre, Ararat

Newtech conferences have been providing people across rural and regional Victoria with information regarding the latest technologies in land information and land management for the past six years. These informative conferences are run by the Victorian Department of Sustainability and Environment with the support of a wide variety of industry partners.

Graeme Martin from Spatial Vision will deliver a presentation regarding developing a business case for GIS using a local government case study. Spatial Vision will also have a trade stand and be demonstrating Nexus, our translator for processing incremental updates of Vicmap Digital mapping data.

For further details on the conference, see http://www.land.vic.gov.au/events

Project Outcomes:

13. Improving Catchment Management

Since early 2001, the staff of Catchment Management Authorities (CMA), the Victorian departments of Sustainability and Environment (DSE) and Primary Industries (DPI) have been using the Catchment Activity Management System (CAMS) to assist with the management of on-ground and community capacity works projects in Victoria. CAMS, developed for DSE by Spatial Vision, enables Departmental and CMA staff to record a wide range of information regarding works including the activities involved, their funding details, the expected outputs and assessment of those outputs. CAMS is now used by hundreds of registered users and contains details of over 14,000 individual works projects involving over $100 million in government funding.

For further information http://www.spatialvision.com.au/sv-news911.htm

Technical Tips:

14. Displaying and Re-Projecting Images in ESRI's ArcIMS

ESRI’s Internet Map Server (ArcIMS) is widely used for publishing GIS information via the web and whilst it is well supported by documentation, it can be difficult to get images to display correctly alongside your vector information. This technical tip will describe the image formats supported by ArcIMS, how to add them to your map services and how to deal with projection and datum issues.

http://www.spatialvision.com.au/sv-news912.htm

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Regards

Glenn Cockerton
Chief Executive

SPATIAL VISION

Innovative Geospatial Solutions
Level 2, 170 Queen Street Melbourne, Victoria 3000
Phone: +61 3 9691 3000 Fax: +61 3 9691 3001
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