Digital Mapping Solutions (DMS) recently announced the introduction of commercial training and support packages for the free Quantum GIS (QGIS) package, throughout Australia and New Zealand. DMS joins a range of international companies offering commercial services for the open source desktop GIS application, to support organisations wishing to incorporate this technology into their […]
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Autonomous Underwater Vehicle creates Antarctic sea ice map
For the first time in East Antarctica, climate scientists have produced a 3D map of the surface beneath a sea ice floe, revealing an inverted complex topography evocative of lakes and mountain ranges. Researchers, on a two-month voyage to the region on the Australian Antarctic Division’s icebreaker Aurora Australis, are using an Autonomous […]
Best of the Blogs 16 October 2012
Engadget has a post talking of a “space harpoon” created by Astrium that will be used to spear space junk and drag it into the atmosphere, causing it to burn up. With more and more space junk orbiting the planet, the risk of it damaging space infrastructure is only increasing. The BBC have a […]
Joint ISNSW & SSSI Twilight Seminar
The Digital Spatial Future for Society and the Challenge for Cadastral Surveyors WHEN: 2012-10-24 to 1970-01-01 10:00:00WHERE: ISNSW Head Office, level 4, 162 Goulburn Street, Surry HillsSTATE: NSWCOUNTRY: AUS WEDNESDAY 24th OCTOBER 2012 “The Digital Spatial Future for Society and the Challenge for Cadastral Surveyors” Presenters: Maurits van der Vlugt and Ian Harper This Seminar […]
Update your listing in the 2013 Position/Spatial Source Directory
You have until the 31st of October to update your FREE supplier listing in Position/Spatial Source directory, published in the December/January issue of Position magazine, as well as online. PLEASE NOTE: WE WILL NOT AUTOMATICALLY repeat last year's entry – you must review and update (if necessary) your 2012-13 entry. To update […]
Historic satellite data to be processed
A new peak supercomputer operated by the National Computing Infrastructure (NCI) will be used to provide scientists with a greater understanding of changes in Australia’s landscape over the past two decades. The NCI’s recently acquired 1.2 petaflop Fujitsu supercomputer, which is housed at the Australian National University, will be used to process large […]
GeoNext 2013: the State of Cartography map exhibition
Once maps were special. They were collected, copied, encrypted, used to plan wars and proved wisdom and influence. The map was the muse for artists like Johannes Vermeer and Jasper Johns, who made them the focus of paintings. Now maps are commonplace and banal. As publishers fade away, map shops close and road […]
Best of the Blogs 18 September 2012
Wired has a great piece on cartographer Kate McLean’s “sensory maps”, which show how people use their different senses to navigate a city. As she explains on her website: "My research investigates smell perceptions of the city environment, depicting the findings in a variety of artistic, cartographic forms and augmenting and altering the maps […]
Ozri wraps up for another year
Esri Australia’s annual user conference, Ozri 2012, ran in Sydney last week, providing more than 60 different sessions and presentations, and attracting over 500 attendees from across Australia, New Zealand, Asia, and the United States. Some of the highlights included Queensland University of Technology’s (QUT) Associate Professor Robyn Clark, who led a seven-year, […]
Sydney Surveying and Mapping Industry Day a success
Martin place became a hub of activity last week, when a Surveying and Mapping Industry Day was held to lift the public profile of the surveying profession. Surveying underpins many crucial elements of modern society, including economic development, urban renewal, disaster planning, environmental management and more. Yet, there is a definite shortage […]
