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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 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).

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 New Zealand Geospatial Office is pleased to announce that John Clegg from ProjectX has been awarded second prize for his Mashup - Crime 10K.

Check out Crime 10K at Geospatial Mash-up 2008 Participants .

I've just added summary notes of the Workshop that was held in Auckland in March 2006 to discuss potential development of guidelines for the use of GIS in Emergency Management. These can be downloaded in pdf format from here.