SSSI SICC News - March 2020

February 29, 2020

Committee Meeting Report

February Committee meeting

Topics addressed in our recent meetings include :

Designing a webinar series to make available to the industry. Pricing options discussed.
Organising the exchange delegate from URISA who is visiting Locate 2020.
Organising SICC members’ meetup at Locate 2020.
GISP-AP – possible new website platform
Discontinuation of paper topographic maps from Geoscience – Committee to address this topic in a future media release.
SICC Leadership Courses – early conceptual discussion.
Publishing a Membership map on SSSI web site.
Potential to build a resource pack for SSSI members who present/exhibit at school career days.

Important News

Discontinuation of paper maps by Geoscience Australia

Geoscience Australia is no longer printing and selling topographic maps in paper form, what does this mean for the future of maps, cartography and our beloved paper map.

Read more...

Locate 2020 Meetup of SICC Members

SSSI members of the Spatial Information and Cartography Commission are invited to a meetup at Locate 2020 which will be held during one of the breaks. This will provide an opportunity to hear about the activities of the Commission, meet other members and to contribute ideas.

Our visiting URISA Exchange Delegate, Immediate Past President of URISA, Kim McDonough, GISP will be participating also. Kim works at the Tennessee Department of Transportation and is Chair of Leadership Development and Special Awards Committees of URISA.

The exact time and location of this meetup will be advertised by email and at the conference.

SSSI Member Web map

The SICC Commission has published a web map of the SSSI membership by Suburbs across Australia.

This map may help in realising where membership is concentrated, where the membership gaps are and deciding where to hold seminars.

Call for Papers - Cartographic Conference - GeoCart'2020 Wellington New Zealand August 2020

There will be a book associated with the conference, collating the best papers as reviewed by an international scientific programme committee and published in Springer’s Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography series. To reflect on 10 GeoCart conferences over 20 years, this book will also have a commemorative aspect to it. Research and professional abstracts will be published in printed proceedings as part of the CartoPRESS Occasional Publication series.

Conference details

Cut-off date for submissions is 17th April

Member Highlights

New SICC Members

The SICC Committee welcomes the following new members to SSSI.

Eyas Abdel Aal		Overseas
Asif Hanif		NSW
Adrian Day		WA
Wee Li Liam		Overseas
Phillip Kautete		Overseas

The SICC Committee welcomes the following new student members to SSSI.

Rocio Peyronnet	WA
Charles Owuama	VIC
Baden Coates	VIC
Shona Dunbar	NSW
Tingting Feng	VIC
Shaun Blackmore	QLD
Mingzhe Li	VIC
Saba Zehra	NSW
Lachlan Lee	VIC
Mark Norman	ACT
Wai Lung Wong	TAS
Wei Li	VIC
Nick Craig	NSW
Ahmar Riaz	Overseas
Jason de Chastel	QLD

Event Highlights

NSW Digital Twin Launch

On the 24 February, the Minister for Customer Service, the Hon. Victor Dominello MP launched NSW’s Spatial Digital Twin at the International Convention Centre Sydney (ICC Sydney). The minister spoke passionately about what spatial data can bring to the state of NSW and how the collaboration between government, industry and everyone will benefit the state.

The NSW Spatial Digital Twin is upgrading the existing two-dimensional environment creating a digital real-world model of our cities and communities which will facilitate better planning, design and modelling for NSW’s future needs.

Wayne Patterson, Director Spatial Operations, Spatial Services NSW, provided a demonstration of the platform and spoke of an ecosystem of data, platforms and government agreements that let us work across agencies, industries and the community.

Wayne Patterson, demonstrating NSW Spatial Digital Twin.

Support for this event was overwhelming across all tiers of government, industry and from the people of NSW.

The launch was well represented by SSSI with President Dr. Zaffar Sadiq Mohamed-Ghouse along with state and national representation in attendance.

President Dr. Zaffar Sadiq Mohamed-Ghouse , Mary-Ellen Feeney, Roshni Sharma and Robert Campbell

For more information and access to the NSW Spatial Digital Twin and NSW Spatial Collaboration Portal please visit our website: https://www.spatial.nsw.gov.au/what_we_do/projects/digital_twin

If you missed the formal proceedings on the day or were unable to attend, please find a link to the recording of the event: https://vimeo.com/392839696/f03c2618e5

SSSI-SA GIS in Local Government Seminar

On Friday 21 February 2020 the City of Tea Tree Gully hosted the latest iteration of the SSSI-SA GIS in Local Government Seminar. South Australia is made up of 63 Local Government areas. SSSI-SA organises an annual half day seminar hosted at a different Council each year.

South Australian Councils have a culture of sharing knowledge and experience around GIS and IT.

Presentations this year comprised of :

Experience from one Council’s GIS system replacement
Bushfire mitigation work – reporting and measuring tool (pilot project)
Open Data Sources and Government web maps (there are so many!)
Urban Heat Islands – How Councils and Community are and will be using this data
Asset Renewal Modelling – Amazing dashboard showing effects of different budget options
How different Councils apply GIS in Works Management Processes – results of survey
Short presentations from 3 sponsors. (Esri Australia, Aerometrex and 1Spatial)

The range of presentations delivered demonstrates the diverse use of GIS across the many functions of a Council. Of 78 registered delegates, approximately 45% were not from Councils! These included University lecturers, students, State Government, Surveying firms and other private sector organisations who all seem very interested in the many ways GIS is used within local government.

Thanks to event sponsors ESRI Australia, Aerometrex and 1Spatial for contributing to this successful and increasingly popular seminar.

Events Coming Up

SSSI SICC related events coming up:

Fri 6 Mar	SSSI Vic & ISV	Melbourne	International Womens Day Breakfast Seminar
Wed 11 Mar	SSSI NSW/ACT	Online	SSI IWD Webinar - Spatial Ecology & Climate Change
28-30 April	SSSI National	Brisbane	Locate 2020