P3 - SI
Spatial Infrastructure
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Development contacts: Kylie Armstrong, Geoff West, Dan Paull and Bruce Thompson
This theme will underpin Australia’s need to develop a national spatial data infrastructure strategy that is endorsed by all key sectors.The vision is to deliver the value of spatial information to our nation’s decision makers through end-user ready spatial infrastructure.
Spatial enablement through broader adoption and capability extension of spatial information infrastructures will drive high-yielding efficiency reforms across industry sectors. Spatial infrastructure should deliver information to decision makers in a timely and easily utilised form. The Spatial Infrastructure program offers Australia the opportunity to harness government information infrastructure investment, industry partner expertise and world leading research to deliver the benefits of spatial awareness. The program will:
- create the foundations required for a robust spatial resource marketplace
- increase access to spatial information by government, business, academia and the broader community
- leverage existing national spatial infrastructure investment
- inform nation-wide policy, regulation and standards development
- develop algorithms and online services that promote industry growth
- create more dynamic and integrated information infrastructure to support and facilitate national collaboration and growth
A highly recommended key resource in support of these aims came out of the European 2009 GSDI conference: SDI Convergence: Research, Emerging Trends, and Critical Assessment
From The Changing Geospatial Landscape (USA)
“Much emphasis in the 21st century has been placed on providing accurate data to support decision-making. In the public and commercial arena, these decisions are diverse. Organizations want to know how to pursue an enemy on a battlefield; what are the best land use alternatives for combating global warming; where should police be assigned to reduce crime; what areas are at risk for West Nile Virus; what is the best site to build new schools; or what are the route logistics for efficient delivery truck fleet management. At a personal level, people want to know how to get to a party, where to vote, what neighborhood is a good location to buy a house, where to find their friends, and how will an ambulance find them when they call 911.
Today’s citizens, taxpayers, and homeowners have an entirely different set of geographic information needs and expectations than people did thirty, twenty or even eight years ago. They want to access geographic information from home through powerful, inexpensive personal computers by means of broadband networks. People accustomed to social Internet structures are as interested in publishing as they are in consuming information. They will readily participate in Facebook’s “what are you doing now” dialog. Today’s generation of Internet users are often armed with their personal navigation system, are repeat consumers of Google Earth data, and expect easy-to-use applications such as seeing their homes and relational values. They flock to sites such as Zillow.com and Cyberhomes.com to view the value of their property and observe the trends in their neighborhoods. This cyberspace generation has high expectations of geographic technologies. They expect to link to their local assessor’s records. They expect detailed, recent aerial photography, and, even better, with bird’s-eye views at four different oblique angles. In reaction to these demands, local governments are incorporating GIS into their enterprise-wide IT environments. Waukesha, Wisconsin, for instance, reports that scores of business decisions relating to everything from E911 to school zoning are driven from a parcel-based GIS because it is the expected norm.”
National Geospatial Advisory Committee (USA), January 2009