GIS.org.nz

One of the benefits of moving to the ProjectX servers has been the ability to better integrate RSS feeds and the like into the website. One interesting new twist on this has been the release of the 'nz data announce' feed. The first data feed to be piped in here is the 'recently added layers' feed from http://koordinates.com/. I'd like to thank Ed Corkery from Koordinates for implementing a feed that we could subscribe to and publish any new data.

I would like to encourage any other organisations that are publishing or releasing data sets to consider publishing a feed to enable easy aggregation of new spatial data sources in New Zealand. Additionally, we will probably look at creating our own announce feed on here that we can manually announce new spatial data sources.

Of course, we'd prefer that if you release data sets regularly, or they are updated often, that you publish a feed in preference, and let us know so that we can subscribe the aggregator to it.

Hi all. It has been a while since I blogged or maintained the site. I've just upgraded to the latest version of Drupal, so you should notice a shiny new look. The next step is to provide a dedicated page for the EM Guidelines that are currently out for consultation.

I've just installed a new module to the blog which will allow me to
make postings via email which should make it far easier to post blog
entries. It won't impact on end-users in any away, except for more
stories.

I have just finished upgrading and moving the old wiki that was here to its new home. The permissions have been tightened because of spammers defacing the wiki, so you now have to email info at gis.org.nz for an account, and the details will be emailed to you.

There are still a few things to do.

• We need to come up with a decent logo - ideally something square/round so that it fits in the top left of the wiki as well. Perhaps someone would like to create a nice little map of New Zealand to go in there?
• Tidy up the fonts on the Content Management System

I've just finished upgrading the wiki, which has now moved to a new location to make room for the new Content Management System. If you're interested, we're running Drupal to manage the site, and using Mediawiki to power the knowledgebase.

There is still a fair amount to be done to get everything up and working, but in the meantime I'd encourage you to join up to the email list.