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Enabling GIS in Schools
Author: Kathryn Salm and Claire ThurlowDate: 04 October 2011 1 comment
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For many years New Zealand high schools have struggled to introduce GIS to their students. Feedback we’ve received has indicated that restricted computer access, budget constraints, and minimal access to comprehensive New Zealand centric lesson plans using GIS have all contributed to this struggle. read more
University of Canterbury becomes CRCSI Essential Participant
Author: Mary Sue SevernDate: 02 May 2011
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The University of Canterbury has been formally accepted as an Essential Participant in the Cooperative Research Centre for Spatial Information. The New Zealand node of the Australian-based CRCSI was established in 2010 and is based in the New Zealand Geospatial Office. With LINZ as New Zealand's "anchor" government participant, and a growing number of local private sector participan read more
Masters in GIS
Author: Kathryn SalmDate: 17 August 2010
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The University of Canterbury is offering a Masters in GIS programme from 2011, with a specific focus on multi-disciplinary geographic information science. read more
Support Research on the Usefulness of Crowd Sourced Data
Author: John ForneDate: 04 August 2010
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The good turn out at yesterday's symposium hosted by the Cooperative Research Centre for Spatial Information (NZ node) and the New Zealand Geospatial Office highlighted a strong interest in research on applying geospatial information. read more
SSSI: Advancing the Geospatial Profession
Author: Karl MajorhaziDate: 29 April 2010
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It is an exciting time to be part of the spatial profession. Geospatial has become a billion dollar industry touted in government as the next big thing since the Internet. We are being asked to make our data more accessible and usable and meet the growing demand from consumers for more location-based services. read more
Building Our Geospatial Capability
Author: Kevin SweeneyDate: 01 July 2010
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Building Our Geospatial Capability When the New Zealand Geospatial Office (NZGO) work programme is discussed, it's often in the context of the four work streams directly related to the strategic goals found within the New Zealand Geospatial Strategy: read more
