Spatial Vision eNewsletter

December 2006 eNewsletter

Welcome to the latest edition of SV News, Spatial Vision's E-Newsletter - your guide to what's new at Spatial Vision, our services and solutions.

Top News
--What's New from Spatial Vision?

1. Spatial Vision wins 2006 Excellence Awards
2. Waterway Health Strategy and Decision Support System
3. Strategic Plan for Herbert Resource Information Centre
4. GIS Strategy to Assist Catchment Management
5. Spatial Vision appointed to Geoscience Australia/DIGO panel
6. eFarmer Web Application
7. Planning for Ballarat Schools

New Projects

8. Wildfire Consequences
9. Victorian Crematorium Industry Review
10. Groundwater Risk to Assets Strategic Analysis

Vicmap Book News:

11. South West Map Book Released
12. CFA Wallmaps
13. Expanded Range of Vicmap Book Digital Products Released

EmerGeo News:

14. Mapping incidents on Google Earth

Project Outcomes:

15. Coordinated Mapping for Western Australia Emergency Management

Technical Tips:

16. Tuning ESRI's ArcSDE for Map Production

Conferences:

17. International Emergency Management Conference

--WHAT'S NEW FROM SPATIAL VISION?

1. Spatial Vision wins 2006 Excellence Awards

Earlier this year Spatial Vision's new Vicmap Book series won the 2006 Victorian Spatial Excellence Award in the "People and Community" category. More recently, the Vicmap Book series has gone on to win the 2006 Australian and Pacific Spatial Excellence Award.

For further information see...http://www.spatialvision.com.au/html/r_asiba2006.htm

2. Waterway Health Strategy and Decision Support System

The South West Catchments Council (Western Australia) has commissioned Spatial Vision undertake the development of their Waterway Health Sub-strategy and an associated Investment Decision Support System.

For further information http://www.spatialvision.com.au/html/r_swcc-idss.htm

3. Strategic Plan for Herbert Resource Information Centre

The Herbert Resource Information Centre (HRIC) contracts Spatial Vision and Ian Plowman to develop a 10 year plan for Spatial Information Technology Infrastructure in the Herbert River District.

For further information see...http://www.spatialvision.com.au/html/r_hric.htm

4. GIS Strategy to Assist Catchment Management

The North Central Catchment Management Authority (CMA) has contracted Spatial Vision to guide the development of a vision for the role that GIS should play in the future and a road map to navigate the many challenges to achieve the vision.

For further information http://www.spatialvision.com.au/html/pdf/email-sv-press-nwcma-gis.pdf

5. Spatial Vision appointed to Geoscience Australia/DIGO panel

Spatial Vision has been appointed to the new Geoscience Australia and Defence Imagery and Geospatial Organisation (DIGO) mapping panel.

For further information see...http://www.spatialvision.com.au/html/r_digo-panel2006.htm

6. eFarmer Web Application

Spatial Vision contracted to design and develop a web based application to support the capture and sharing of environmental information across farms, landscapes and catchments.

For further information see...http://www.spatialvision.com.au/html/r_efarmer.htm

7. Planning for Ballarat Schools

Department of Education and Training has appointed Spatial Vision to review the future demand for government primary and secondary schools in the greater Ballarat region.

For further information see...http://www.spatialvision.com.au/html/r_ballarat-schools.htm

--NEW PROJECTS:

8. Wildfire Consequences

Spatial Vision recently completed a spatial analysis project for the Office of the Emergency Services Commissioner (OESC) to quantify and map the potential consequences of wildfire in a uniform way across Victoria.

For further information see...http://www.spatialvision.com.au/html/projects.htm#wildfireasset

9. Victorian Crematorium Industry Review

Spatial Vision, in conjunction with Marsden Jacob Associates and Cumpston Sarjeant Truslove, completed a comprehensive review of the Crematorium Industry in Victoria for the Department of Human Services.

For further information http://www.spatialvision.com.au/html/projects.htm#crem

10. Groundwater Risk to Assets Strategic Analysis

Rising groundwater presents a significant risk to biodiversity. Spatial Vision was commissioned to design and implement a simple risk model that could provide a broad understanding of the geographic context of the threat posed by rising groundwater to biodiversity.

For further information see...http://www.spatialvision.com.au/html/projects.htm#groundwater

VICMAP BOOK NEWS:

11. South West Map Book Released

The third book in our award winning series, the South West book covers from Little Desert NP to Cape Otway. The new map book series has been developed by Spatial Vision in partnership with DSE and CFA in an initiative to make state-wide topographic mapping more widely available throughout Victoria.

For further information http://www.spatialvision.com.au/html/r_mapbook_b3.htm

12. CFA Wallmaps

Spatial Vision has been commissioned to produce a variety of map products for CFA in Western Victoria.

For further information see...http://www.spatialvision.com.au/html/r_cfawallmap.htm

13. Expanded Range of Vicmap Book Digital Products Released

These suite of digital products offer a direct match to the Vicmap Book hardcopy maps and are compatible with most GIS and GPS packages.

For further information see...http://www.spatialvision.com.au/html/r_vicmap-digital-products.htm

EMERGEO NEWS:

14. Mapping incidents on Google Earth

Emergency Managers can now visualise their emergency situation data in Google Earth.

For further information http://www.emergeo.com/

PROJECT OUTCOMES:

15. Coordinated Mapping for Western Australia Emergency Management

Mark Taylor, the Project Manager for the Emergency Management (EM) focus area of the WA Government's Shared Land Information Platform (SLIP) explains the challenges of servicing cross agency requirements.

For further information see...http://www.spatialvision.com.au/html/success-story-14.htm

TECHNICAL TIPS:

16. Tuning ESRI's ArcSDE for Map Production

This edition's technical tip will help you understand how to tune spatial indexing to improve access performance in an ESRI ArcGIS / ArcSDE map production system.

see...http://www.spatialvision.com.au/html/tips-arcsde-map-production.htm

17. International Emergency Management Conference

Spatial Vision's Graeme Martin and Michael Black will be presenting the outcomes of a project to define a National standard for Emgergency Management Symbology to the 2007 WPFG International Emergency Management Conference in Adelaide, 13 - 16 March.
see...http://www.2007wpfg.com/conference/conference.cfm

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Regards

Glenn Cockerton
Managing Director

SPATIAL VISION
Innovative Geospatial Solutions
Level 2, 170 Queen Street Melbourne, Victoria 3000
Phone: +61 3 9691 3000 Fax: +61 3 9691 3001
E-mail: info@spatialvision.com.au http://www.spatialvision.com.au