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The Intergovernmental Committee on Survey and Mapping have released a report covering these key tasks.

Task 1 - Conducting an audit of key agencies involved in emergency management and response to compile a nationally consistent Incident Management System (IMS) symbology resource catalogue.

Task 2 - Conducting an audit to define the major categories of symbols for all-hazards used or required by Emergency Managers and response personnel and develop documentation outlining which categories of symbols are relevant to different types of organisations and events, gaps in existing categories and priority areas for additional work.

The report is available from this page.

I've also just uploaded the GIS in emergency management survey that was undertaken by a number of people last year, and compiled by John Gibson and Helen Grant from Greater Wellington.

This report presents the results of a survey carried out to review current use of geographic information systems (GIS) in emergency management in New Zealand, and to gauge interest in best practice guidelines being developed.

The report can be downloaded in pdf format here.

I have just published a report I finished last month for the Wellington Lifelines Group to the knowledgebase to see how well it handles longer documents in one page. Let me know if you think it is too long for one page. I will probably end up putting a pdf version available for download as well.

Download in pdf format
Report in wiki - GIS, Lifeline Utilities and Emergency Management