[Abstract]: The majority of spatial information and mapping has traditionally been captured, managed and controlled by the public sector agencies. Over the past decade with the value and potential of spatial information slowly being realised, and the gradual down-sizing of government mapping...

Risk is defined as “the chance of something happening that will impact on objectives” and measured in terms of consequences and likelihood. Applying this to bushfires, the likelihood component is the probability of a fire start (ignition) and spread (growth) and the consequence component is...

Governments create and consume vast quantities of data and information technology. It is estimated that approximately 80% of decisions made by government agencies have a geographic or spatial dimension. Spatial data infrastructure (SDI) is now critical to the delivery of emergency services such...

[Abstract]: In recent years interjurisdictional partnerships have emerged as an important mechanism for establishing an environment conducive to data sharing and hence the facilitation of SDI development. However, unless the partnership arrangements are carefully designed and managed to meet the...

In the past decade efforts to develop spatial data infrastructures (SDIs) have migrated from the initial 'top-down' national approaches to 'bottom-up' and cross jurisdictional efforts at the sub-national level. Although national SDI developments are fundamental to building the SDI culture and...

In recent years inter-jurisdictional partnerships have emerged as an important mechanism for establishing an environment conducive to data sharing and hence thefacilitation of SDI development. However, unless the partnership arrangements are carefully designed and managed to meet the business...

Local government is a rich source of accurate and detailed spatial information which isutilised not only at the local level but increasingly at other levels of government. To build thespatial data infrastructure (SDI) at a state and national level, the role of local governmentsand their...

This research started with a realization that two organizations in Saudi Arabia were spending large amounts of money, millions of dollars in fact, in acquiring separate sets of geospatial data that had identical basemap components. Both the organizations would be using the data for similar...