January 2006 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.

Top News

--What's New from Spatial Vision? 

1. New Mapbook Series for Emergency Services
2. Biodiversity Tender System
3. Point Nepean Consultation Maps
4. Cardiac GIS
5. Nexus - Vicmap IUF for VicRoads
6. Web Mapping for Australian Marine Spatial Information System
7. Irrigation District Atlas
8. Groundwater Reporting Framework for Murray Darling Basin
9. Heritage Map Series

--New Projects:

10. GIS Stream Site Allocation Tool
11. Field Recording of Minerals

--EmerGeo News:

12. EmerGeo Deployed for Marine Oil Spill Response

--Project Outcomes:

13. Successful Collaboration Between Government and Industry

--Technical Tips:

14. Implementing Open GIS Web Mapping into ArcGIS

What's New from Spatial Vision? 

1. New Mapbook Series for Emergency Services

Spatial Vision's new Vicmap Book series is now available. The new Vicmap Book series replaces the CFA Regional Directories for emergency management. Five map books are being published covering all of regional Victoria. The book comprises high quality 1:100,000 topographic maps (with 1:50,000 for selected areas) as well as detailed township maps with the latest Vicmap data and emergency service features. Spatial Vision is taking orders for the first map book for the Outer Metro Region now.

For further information http://www.spatialvision.com.au/html/r_mapbook_b1.htm

2. Biodiversity Tender System

Corangamite Catchment Management Authority has contracted Spatial Vision to develop a system to manage a public tender for landholders to manage native vegetation on private land across Victoria's volcanic plain bioregion.

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

3. Point Nepean Consultation Maps

Parks Victoria appointed Spatial Vision to undertake a series of "Have Your Say" brochures and display maps to actively encourage community participation and involvement in the preparation of the Management Plans for the new Point Nepean National Park.

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

4. Cardiac GIS

Health Management Advisors and Spatial Vision have been selected to research the spatial distribution of demand for and supply of cardiac rehabilitation services throughout regional Australia. The project also involves the production of a CD-ROM based GIS application for making details of service providers available to health services.

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

5. Nexus - Vicmap IUF for VicRoads

VicRoads purchased Spatial Vision’s Nexus product as a means of assisting with the maintenance of their property database, VISTA. Nexus is an ArcGIS based IUF (Incremental Update File) conversion tool for Vicmap data.

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

6. Web Mapping for Australian Marine Spatial Information System

Geoscience Australia has selected Spatial Vision to develop a new web mapping site to be known as the Australian Marine Spatial Information System (AMSIS). AMSIS will be developed using Geoscience Australia’s extensive spatial infrastructure and will be based on Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) standards.

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

7. Irrigation District Atlas

Spatial Vision recently assisted Southern Rural Water in the preparation of an Atlas for the Macalister Irrigation District. The Atlas summarises key information and the physical attributes of the District.

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

8. Groundwater reporting framework for Murray Darling Basin

The Murray-Darling Basin Commission has engaged Spatial Vision and Bartley Consulting to identify and document the requirements of a groundwater information reporting framework for the Basin.

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

9. Heritage Map Series

Spatial Vision is working with heritage consultants, Context Pty Ltd, to publish a series of maps illustrating the historic development of the City of Stonnington in Victoria.

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

New Projects:

10. GIS Stream Site Allocation Tool

Spatial Vision was commissioned to design a GIS based tool that would enable random selection of sampling sites to support stream condition assessments.

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

11. Field Recording of Minerals

Spatial Vision completed the development of a mobile application to support field data collection of geology data and synchronisation with corporate databases for NSW Department of Primary Industries - Minerals.

For further information http://www.spatialvision.com.au/html/projects.htm#dpi-min

EmerGeo News:

12. EmerGeo Deployed for Marine Oil Spill Response

The Canadian company, Burrard Clean Operations, will be installing EmerGeo into their mobile operations centre to support response personnel at emergency sites. EmerGeo is a GIS tool designed for emergency managers.

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

Project Outcomes:

13. Successful Collaboration Between Government and Industry

Bruce Thompson, Director of Victoria's Spatial Information Infrastreucture, talks about the benefits arising from public-private partnerships.

For further information http://www.spatialvision.com.au/html/success-story-12.htm

Technical Tips:

14. Implementing Open GIS Web Mapping into ArcGIS

This edition's technical tip will help you understand what are Web Feature and Web Mapping Services and how you can utilise them with ArcGIS.

http://www.spatialvision.com.au/html/tips-openGIS.htm

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Regards

Glenn Cockerton
Chief Executive

SPATIAL VISION

Innovative Geospatial Solutions
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Phone: +61 3 9691 3000 Fax: +61 3 9691 3001
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