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For the past two weeks, I've been consulting with Land Information New Zealand on building the case for geospatial information and establishing a spatial data infrastructure. During this time, I've delivered different presentations that I thought would be useful to post online. read more
On Monday, Cabinet agreed to the development of a national spatial data infrastructure for New Zealand, and directed Government agencies to get involved now - at the development stage. 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
What is spatial information?Spatial information is data that is linked to a geographic location. It's about knowing where things are on, under or above the surface of the earth and how they relate to one another. read more
Section 1 of the Spatial information in the New Zealand economy report (PDF, 1.64MB) introduced spatial information and highlighted a number of economic issues (including 'market failure' and the role for government), whilst Section 2 identified applications of modern spatial i read more
Spatial Information in the New Zealand Economy - Realising Productivity Gains is a report commissioned by Land Information New Zealand, the Department of Conservation and the read more
Recently I was invited to speak at the 6th annual GIS Senior Executive Summit held in Wellington on 9 March. Each year, the summit brings together industry leaders from across the private and public sectors. read more
In previous blog posts, I've covered what Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) is and what some of the impacts will be for agencies wanting to participate in it. Now, let's take a look at what we've been doing to establish SDI, how it might function, and what a roadmap for a healthy SDI looks like. read more
In this post, I want to talk about some of the effects that implementing a Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) will have for agencies. Specifically, the costs and value of SDI to an agency, and the standards needed for an agency to participate in it. This is the second of three posts introducing SDI in New Zealand. To catch up on my previous SDI update, see: read more
This is the first in a series of three blog posts introducing what I've been doing with the New Zealand Geospatial Office (NZGO) to start work on a Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) for New Zealand. First up, in this post I give a brief explanation of what SDI is and how it fits in the current New Zealand context. read more