Press Release - January 11 2006

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 build on work already undertaken in the definition of Australia’s maritime boundaries. It will accurately locate marine features including interests and rights over the Australian Marine Jurisdiction.

AMSIS will be developed using Geoscience Australia’s extensive spatial infrastructure and will be based on Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) standards. It will utilize the Internet Mapping Framework to deliver the web interface and will provide a number of customized functions such as the ability to enquire on the legal interests at a location or to determine the distance from a given location to a selected maritime boundary such as our Exclusive Economic Zone.

AMSIS will include a comprehensive range of map layers such as maritime boundaries and related themes. The open source University of Minnesota MapServer software will be used to deliver the WMS and WFS services which will underpin AMSIS.

Spatial Vision is providing technical specification, development and deployment services to Geoscience Australia. AMSIS will undergo a period of beta testing before being publicly released.

For further information about the mapping and interactive CDs, please contact :
Graeme Martin
Ph: (03) 9691 3000
email info@spatialvision.com.au

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