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In September, the LINZ Hydrography team released a Request for Proposals (RFP) to collect LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) bathymetry data for the Wellington Harbour and Abel Tasman areas. read more
After four years of attending the conference, I think I’ve finally got my head round one thing - it is about B2C and C2C applications. This contrasts with the vast majority of mainstream GIS conferences that are almost exclusively focused on B2B applications. This is of course a gross oversimplification - there are obvious crossovers. read more
I recently read an interesting article about innovation and collaboration - Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation By Steven Johnston. It focused on the importance of creating collaborative spaces where innovative ideas could ‘meet and fall in love’. read more
Last week the NZGO took the first steps towards establishing a national spatial data infrastructure (SDI) for New Zealand. The publication, in the form of a cookbook, focuses on initial guidance for implementing an SDI targeted to government agencies and others interested in participating. read more
Today saw the release of the spatial data infrastructure (SDI) cookbook for New Zealand – a pretty exciting step along our path to a national SDI. read more
The 2011 digital boundaries covering New Zealand, including the Chatham Islands, are now available to download from the Statistics NZ website. read more
LINZ is currently developing real-time provision of position data from a number of its PositioNZ stations. PositioNZ is a country-wide network of 33 continuously operating global navigation satellite system (GNSS) stations. read more
Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) is currently the delegate for New Zealand on the Group on Earth Observations (GEO). read more
The New Zealand Land Use Database project is a two-year Envirolink Tools project running from January 2010 to December 2011. read more
Over the last five to six years local and central government agencies have increasingly turned to remote sensing technologies such as Light Detection And Ranging (LiDAR) to obtain data about ground elevations. read more