Spatial Vision eNewsletter

July 2003 eNewsletter

Welcome to SV News, Spatial Vision's new 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 Whole-of-Government E-Services Panel

The procurement of web development services from Spatial Vision by Victorian government agencies has been made much easier. Multimedia Victoria has established the “Whole of Victorian Government eServices Panel” to streamline the purchasing of eServices.

Spatial Vision has been appointed to the Panel as a provider of Web Development Services.

For further information http://www.spatialvision.com.au/sv-news51.htm

2. “Under the Hood” Sessions Great Success

Spatial Vision conducted a very successful and well attended series of workshop sessions during April and May in Melbourne and Sydney. These sessions were the first in an on-going series providing technical and case study information regarding adoption of geospatial technology.

The first round of workshops addressed options for implementing ESRI’s ArcIMS application and included a range of fully operational case studies exploring the various models for deploying this leading technology.

Watch this space for information regarding future “Under the Hood” sessions planned for later this year.

New Projects:

3. National Oceans Office

The National Oceans Office has selected Spatial Vision to produce a National Marine Atlas showing the non-fisheries uses of Australia’s marine jurisdiction. Preparation of the Atlas will involve collecting and collating marine datasets of various standards and formats into a set of products for the National Oceans Office.

For further information http://www.spatialvision.com.au/sv-news53.htm

4. Interactive Fire Management Strategy CD-ROM

The New South Wales National Parks & Wildlife Service (NPWS) contracted Spatial Vision to prepare an interactive format CD for the draft Sydney Basin Fire Management Strategy.

Initially the CD prepared by Spatial Vision will be made available within the NPWS to garner feedback on the contents of the draft management strategy as well as the new interactive format.

For further information http://www.spatialvision.com.au/sv-news54.htm

5. Updated Emergency Management Plan

Spatial Vision recently completed an update of the interactive version of City of Monash’s Emergency Management Plan (EMP). The 2003 Monash EMP includes the full text of the plan, updated contact details and an expanded range of maps including a stormwater theme (showing drainage networks and contours) and a one kilometre buffer area of the surrounding councils. It has been deployed to stakeholder agencies including Police, SES, Department of Human Services and surrounding councils.

For further details about interactive EMP, please contact Malcolm McKenzie at City of Monash on phone (03) 9518 3746 or Graeme Martin at Spatial Vision.

For further information http://www.spatialvision.com.au/sv-news55.htm

6. NSW Geological Mapping

The Cartographic Section of the Geological Survey, group in NSW Department of Minerals and Resources (DMR), recently contracted Spatial Vision to create geological data and a base map series for the Tamworth Transect Area, covering approximately 1,600 square kilometres. Spatial Vision has also created an underlying 1:50,000 base map using LPI topographic data.

For further information http://www.spatialvision.com.au/sv-news56.htm

7. Priority Action Information System

Spatial Vision has been contracted by the Parks, Flora and Fauna (PFF) division of the Department of Sustainability and Environment (DSE) in Victoria to develop a new web-delivered application to assist in the management of endangered items (species, communities etc). The Priority Actions Information System (PAIS) will enable PFF staff to record details of endangered items, their most important habitat locations and priority actions to be undertaken in support of them.

PAIS will be developed as a Java/JSP web application using an Oracle RDBMS and ESRI ArcSDE/ArcIMS spatial infrastructure.

For further information http://www.spatialvision.com.au/sv-news57.htm

New Products:

8. Record Locations via the Web - TRACTUS

Spatial Vision has launched “Tractus” in response to demand for an easy-to-use web-based product for creating spatial data that can be fully attributed and stored with corporate spatial data.

Tractus enables end-users to create points, lines and polygons for defined spatial layers and store these with attributes in their corporate database so they may become broadly accessible.

For further information http://www.spatialvision.com.au/sv-news58.htm

Conferences:

9. 2003 NSW State of GIS (SOGIS) Forum

Stephen Farrell and Graeme Martin attended the recent SOGIS forum held in Sydney. The AURISA-organised forum was well attended and the Spatial Vision trade stand received a lot of attention. Stephen presented a conference paper with Robert Mezzatesta from the National Parks & Wildlife Service on an innovative approach to distributing native vegetation management plans in Western Sydney. The plans were distributed on CD with an interactive interface developed by Spatial Vision.

The conference season is about to open in earnest. It seems that the July to October period is becoming increasingly crowded with conferences. You will be able to catch up with members of Spatial Vision at the following forums in July and August.

10. Geospatial Information & Technology Association (GITA) Annual Conference

GITA is considered the premier asset management forum for utilities, transport, telecommunications and other government service sectors. This year’s annual conference will be in Sydney on 18 – 20 August. Graeme Martin will presenting a paper on Wednesday 20th on Water Authorities Investing in Enterprise-Wide GIS.

11. ESRI Australia’s Annual OZRI Conference

This year’s annual ESRI confest of technology will be held in Adelaide on 12 – 13 August. Spatial Vision will there with bells on! Well, we will have a trade stand and will be demonstrating a range of recent client projects.

Project Outcomes:

12. Harnessing local knowledge for fire map books

The Country Fire Authority’s rural map directories are fundamental tools for the fire brigades and other emergency services to respond to incidents. Spatial Vision is completing two regional directories for the CFA. The approach taken by Spatial Vision will harness the knowledge of local brigades and further enhance base datasets on which all emergency service organisations depend.

For further information http://www.spatialvision.com.au/sv-news512.htm

Technical Tips:

13. Deploying ESRI’s free GIS - ArcReader

Technical Tips for deploying ESRI’s free GIS software, ArcReader

http://www.spatialvision.com.au/sv-news513.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
E-mail: info@spatialvision.com.au
http://www.spatialvision.com.au