The Queensland Department of Community Safety (DCS) Total Operational Mapping (TOM2) map service is available to several thousand internal DCS staff, by typing “TOM” into their browsers in the internal DESPortal. TOM2 includes a variety of options for background layers. [Note: The screen clips were taken during the initial rollout, the appearance of the viewer [...]
March 29, 2012
“Where’s the beef in GIS”?
I recently tweeted a link to an article published in Spatial Source, entitled ” Geospatial information GIS to revolutionise flood insurance, with quotes from Simon Thompson (Director, Commercial Marketing at ESRI in the USA). “Mr Thompson said the spatial industry has traditionally been more focused on technology instead of information sharing, but this is now changing.” [...]
March 18, 2012
Qld Floods Commission of Inquiry
Like many others (erm, sure) I’m spending a few Sunday afternoon hours in the company of the 600 odd page Qld Floods Commission of Inquiry Final Report released on March 16, 2012. Requirement 2.11 strikes me as understandably impatient with the familiar bureaucratic wrangling and argy-bargy that goes on around government spatial data repositories. Section [...]
January 4, 2012
Review and new outline for AS/NZS 4819 Rural and Urban Addressing
I worked for two years on the SASIG, representing the interests of emergency services in what has been a major overhaul of this Standard, published November 2011. The trickier problem of legacy addresses The new AS/NZS 4819 was developed as best practice for the assignment of new addresses, but the thousands of problem ‘legacy’ addresses [...]
December 6, 2011
User notes for Qld Community Intelligence Map (CIM)
Novice users of the new Queensland Community Intelligence Map (CIM) can stymied by the small things. For those who are comfortable using Googlemaps the CIM is very intuitive, but to make GIS more accessible to a wider audience sometimes a newbie starter kit can help! (This will be a work in progress…I’ll try to add content when [...]
December 5, 2011
New public Queensland Community Intelligence Map (CIM) for disasters
I’m working for Queensland Department of Community Safety for six months, as a member of the All Hazards Information Management Program. One of the projects on this program is the Public Engagement Capability Project which is delivering social media to the department and community. On December 1st, 2011 as part of the Emergency Services & Safety Website, [...]
October 27, 2011
Putting Hughesy the Pothole Warrior onto Neatstreets
Hey, so what’s this I hear that Hughesy was bitchin’ about tripping head-over-heels on a deep footpath hole on Chapel Street as he was jogging (they contacted Stonnington CC who said that they have a quick-response team to deal with these issues). Hughesy the Pothole Warrior, have you got one that needs filling? (slide to [...]
October 27, 2011
Losing the car (and liking it).
About two months ago my husband had a bingle and the insurer wrote off our car. We decided not to replace it and after two months I can honestly say we really don’t miss the car at all. We have not only decreased our environmental footprint but we have also also reaped financial benefits. The [...]
October 25, 2011
MyCyberTwin? No way. Give me CyberMinions.
An acquaintance from Dialog – Google’s largest Enterprise Partner in Australia – sent an email to bring a couple items to my attention. One was an article in the Oct-Nov Position Magazine on the geospatial VicGIS application (developed for the Victorian government by Dialog). I’d share this with you, except that Position Magazine charge a [...]
October 25, 2011
Speakers finalized for GeoRabble, and the countdown begins
http://www.eventbrite.com/countdown-widget?eid=2332293954 Event registration for GeoRabble Melbourne #1 GeoRabble program…. Welcome by Francisco Urbina, of GeoRabble Sydney and handover to our Melbourne RabbleMaster, Sally Waller Presenters: Stewart Hay: “Losing My Religion” Them’s fightin’ words….a look at where GIS fits as an “industry’. Claudia Aberl : “To 3D or not to 3D, that is the question – [...]
Yvonne R Thompson
Content development about government and industry activities to spatially enable society. Hopefully an opportunity to help break through some of the mystery and present content in a straight-forward way.
May 20, 2012
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