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Executive Summary

The Review requests that the CEO of Land Information NZ note the recommendations outlined in this document, and institute the policy directions and resourcing necessary to give effect to the Landonline Geospatial development required to support All Of Government.

Problem Statement

Landonline was developed for the internal requirements of LINZ, particularly managing and recording land titles registered under the Land Transfer Act.

WORKSHOPS: ANZLIC SPATIAL RESOURCE DISCOVERY AND ACCESS TOOLKIT

Three ANZLIC (Australia New Zealand Land Information Council) workshops related to geospatial metadata are being held in Wellington, Christchurch and Auckland in early August. The aim is to train people who in turn can act as trainers in their own organisations with respect to geospatial metadata. Come along and learn about the recently released, free, standalone ANZMet Lite metadata tool, and how to use it plus metadata guidance resources in your organisation.

Some great news out today - the Ministry for the Environment has announced the re-release of a couple of their datasets under the Creative Commons licence (technically the CCv3-BY). MFE's page is here. MFE's Koordinates.com stream is here.

Two major environmental databases are set to become more accessible and easier to use following the re-release of these digital maps by the Ministry for the Environment.

Advancing the Role and Use of GIS through Innovative Applications and Collaborative Working

22 & 23 June 2009 Duxton Hotel, Wellington

After a well received inaugural event for GIS, conference provider BrightStar returns to offer a wide range of case studies and perspectives from a wide variety of practitioners, including Colin MacDonald, Chief Executive of Land Information New Zealand giving an opening address. Also hear from speakers from local government, research organisations, utility companies, consulting firms and emergency services.

The FOSS4G 2009 conference being held in Sydney in October has released their call for abstracts. The deadline for abstract submission is 1 June 2009. For more information, please see the FOSS4G press release.

Some further information about the upcoming LCDB consultation workshops are now available.

You are invited to participate in one of a series workshops to help plan the development of the next version of the national Land Cover Database (LCDB).

Land Information New Zealand and the New Zealand Institute of Surveyors have established a joint working group to take a critical look at the cadastral survey industry.

Purpose of the working group

This working group aims to form a shared view of the future state of the cadastral survey industry, how key players will contribute, and what needs to be done to get there. Once this view is formed, we will be able to identify future opportunities and increased efficiencies in the industry for all those who create, regulate, maintain or use the cadastre.

An invite to an upcoming series of workshops...

You are invited to participate in the first of a number of workshops to help plan the development of the next version of the national Land Cover Database (LCDB).

The LCDB is a nationally significant database which is widely used throughout the country. It is a digital map created by grouping similar types of land cover which can identified from satellite images. There are currently two versions in circulation depicting New Zealand’s land cover in 1996-97 and 2001-02. A third version is proposed which will use the mapping output from the Ministry for the Environment’s Land Use and Carbon Analysis System (LUCAS) programme as a base. This mapping is based on satellite data over the summer of 2007-08.

We need your input to scope the new version of the LCDB and makeit relevant for today’s needs. The workshop will be of interest to policy makers, land managers, researchers and analysts –anyone with an interest or a stake in land cover information.

More workshops will be held during February 2009 in Hamilton, PalmerstonNorth, Christchurch and Dunedin.

The first workshop is being held in Wellington. Tuesday 16 December, 2008 from 1-4pm at Environment House, 23 Kate Sheppard Place, Wellington.

(pdf here)

The conference programme for GeoCart'2008 has been released. I've just added this to the calendar, and for those that don't know, GeoCart'2008 is being held at the University of Auckland on the 1st to the 3rd of September. More details are available on their website.

It's not necessarily spatial, but there is a lot of good and relevant work going on in the eGovernment space. To make it easier to find some of these, I've created a news aggregation feed that points at these eGovernment resources.