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Implementing GIS Strategically

North Central ‘Catchment Management Authority (CMA) located in Northern Victoria recognises that Geographic Information System (GIS) technology will continue to play an important role in its future as it is better integrated into their business systems and processes.

Spatial Vision is assisting North Central CMA to realise its vision for an enterprise GIS and recently assisted CMA staff with implementation of the second stage of their GIS strategy. This assistance involved:

• Designing a Geospatial Data Catalogue (GDC) to act as a corporate repository for the storage of key spatial datasets
• Creation of the GDC within an ESRI ArcSDE 9.2 environment on MS SQL Server.
• Assisting CMA staff with creation of a number of ESRI map documents (mxds) and layer files that access the GDC.

North Central CMA officers and Spatial Vision are now implementing the third stage that involves deployment of an internal Web Browser for exploring and publishing spatial data from the GDC. The Web Browser application will be known as the North Central CMA Information Mapping Service (IMAP).

The North Central CMA IMAP has been developed using Moximedia's Internet Mapping Framework (IMF) Java software package and will source its mapping information from an OpenGIS compliant Web Mapping Service (WMS) map delivered by MapServer software. The published map symbology will be configured to match corporate map documents authored by North Central CMA.

One of the key features of the North Central CMA IMAP will be a link through to North Central CMA's corporate web store, allowing users to click on the map interface and drill-down through a series of spatial layers and display associated geo-referenced documents. This will allow staff to associate documents with key spatial datasets such as river reaches or Local Government Areas.

Spatial Vision will implement the North Central CMA IMAP including the configuration of spatial layers, the development of customised functionality and the deployment of the application to North Central's internal web infrastructure. Spatial Vision has mentored GIS staff through the configuration of layers in the North Central CMA IMAP.

Stage four will see a customized view of North Central CMA IMAP being presented through their website for external consumption.

For further information, please contact:

Ben Johnson
Ph: (03) 9691 3000
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Sector Projects by Spatial Vision

Resources - Natural Resource Management

Best Practice NRM Tools 2009 Workshop

On July 24th 2009, Spatial Vision held a workshop for CMA officers to learn and share their knowledge about 'best practice' Spatial Information Management tools and techniques that could be used to support improved NRM decision making....

Best Practice NRM Tools 2008 Workshop

On June 12th 2008, Spatial Vision held a workshop for CMA officers to learn and share their knowledge about 'best practice' Spatial Information Management tools and techniques that could be used to support improved NRM decision making....

Resources - Natural Resource Management Websites

National Land and Water Audit The National Land and Water Audit provides data, information and nationwide assessments of Australia's land, water and biological resources to support sustainable development.

Australian Natural Resources Atlas The Australian Natural Resources Data Library. The place to look for natural resources data and information about that data

Department of Sustainability and Environment - Land Management Victoria's approaches to land management including references to the Catchment Management Authorities.

ASRIS
Australian Soil Resource Information System (ASRIS) provides online access to the best publicly available information on soil and land resources in a consistent format across Australia.

NSW Catchment Management Authorities An overview of Catchment Management Authorities (CMAs) have been established across the State by the New South Wales Government.