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Read the latest in ESRI Australia media releases, news articles and feature stories.
Technology Directions Count Down
The next Technology Directions start in less than a month
Esri Australia's Technology Direction seminars are renowned for helping people make the most of their GIS.
The next round of seminars, touring the country from late September, will focus on improving people's knowledge of the new ArcGIS 10 system. Attendees will experience in-depth presentations on the system's new capabilities, as well as practical demonstrations.
Smart Grid Study Highlights Utility Hurdles
Enterprise GIS is essential to Smart Grid... but are utilities ready?
As the role of a Smart Grid gains prominence in Australia, a new study has shown that more than 70 percent of utilities view Geographic Information Systems (GIS) as strategic to its implementation.
The results are part of a benchmark study from Esri, which also shows that utilities must correct, update, and integrate customer and infrastructure data before a Smart Grid can be effectively implemented.
National Geographic Telling Stories With GIS
The iconic National Geographic Society is using GIS to bring geography to the world
In a move that will boost the profile of geography in Australia and all over the world, the National Geographic Society has signed a nonprofit site licence (NSL) agreement with Esri that allows expansion of the GIS user base within the society and will improve public access to geographic data.
The NSL provides greater support of the society's goal of increasing and diffusing geographic knowledge.
Dekho 3.1 Leverages MDS Foundation Maps
The new-look Dekho has a new market-leading capability
Ahead of its imminent release, Esri Australia has announced its highly anticipated Dekho 3.1 can consume and utilise MDS Foundation Maps.
The exciting capability is a significant coup for the new generation Dekho. It is touted as being designed to improve the user experience and assist in the creation of superior online maps.
Esri User Conference Brings GIS to Everyone
67 Australians were amongst 13,000 GIS enthusiasts in attendance.
The Esri International User Conference has wrapped up for another year to rave reviews, with a focus on how technological advancements in GIS have changed the global geospatial landscape.
During the weeklong event held in San Diego, California, in July, 13,000 attendees (including almost 70 Australians) participated in talks, watched software demonstrations, and attended paper sessions describing the ways that geospatial information and analysis are available to everyone.
Australian Organisations Recognised for Special Achievement in GIS
Country Fire Authority & Department of Climate Change Awarded
Two Australian organisations - the Victorian Country Fire Authority and the Australian Department of Climate Change - have been honoured at the recent Esri International User Conference with Special Achievement in GIS awards in recognition of their extraordinary and innovative application of GIS.
Esri Australia Blog Launched
Visit the website at www.esriaustralia.com.au/blog
Log on to the Internet and fire up your keyboards: the Esri Australia Blog has gone live.
The new blog is a rich source of location intelligence information and covers all things GIS. The panel of blog contributors are experts in their fields and provide an authoritative and unique voice on important issues surrounding the industry. The new blog is Esri Australia's second blog, joining the Dekho Blog.
UC2010 Videos
Watch the key UC2010 plenary presentations
More than 14,000 GIS users from across the world gathered in San Diego in July to attend Esri's 2010 User Conference.
Watch the plenary videos to find out what ESRI president and founder Jack Dangermond had to say about where GIS is heading, as well as seeing all the ArcGIS 10 demonstration highlights.
GIS Making Schools Safer
In the USA, a local government is using GIS to enhance school safety
As more Australian governments sign ELAs and look for new ways to exploit their GIS, ESRI has given an American local government an award commending their innovative approach in using GIS to enhance school safety.
Enterprise GIS: Smart for Smart Grid
Enterprise GIS is helping utilities to prepare for Smart Grid
Smart Grid is gathering momentum in Australia, with the concept being touted as the inevitable future of our country's electric systems. A fully-functioning and well-prepared Enterprise GIS is essential to the success of a Smart Grid, says ESRI Australia's Managing Director Brett Bundock.
To find out why, read the full media release here.
Jack Dangermond Profiled in Financial Times
ESRI President Jack Dangermond speaks about future of GIS
ESRI President Jack Dangermond has been profiled on London's Financial Times website, speaking of the history of ESRI and the implications GIS has for the future. The business lifestyle feature article positions Mr Dangermond and the ESRI brands as world thought leaders in GIS. It focuses on how location intelligence is being used to solve many of the world's biggest problems, citing examples from Haiti to the BP Oil Spill.
"This is IT that matters, that has the potential to help the world. We tell stories with maps about global warming, biodiversity, we can design more liveable cities, track the spread of epidemics. That makes a difference," says Mr Dangermond in the feature.
- Read the full article here. You will need to register for a Financial Times username and login (this is a quick and easy process).
ESRI Australia Cements Partnership with SSSI
Exclusive Titanium partnership signed
ESRI Australia today announced its exclusive National Titanium partnership with the Surveying and Spatial Sciences Institute (SSSI) as part of the industry body's Sustaining Partners Program.
As the only organisation to partner with SSSI at the Titanium level, the partnership identifies ESRI Australia as one of the country's leading location intelligence organisations.
US Restoration Project Uses ArcGIS to Enable Gov 2.0
GIS is making governments world-wide more accountable.
As the Gov 2.0 concept takes off in Australia, news comes of more US government agencies using GIS technology to enable transparency.
In the United States of America, the government-funded Chesapeake Bay Program (CBP) has launched ChesapeakeStat, a management and accountability tool. Using ArcGIS as a platform, ESRI and CBP developed the Geographic Information System (GIS) enabled website that provides the public, decision makers, and restoration stakeholders with up-to-date information about the progress of government-funded restoration and conservation projects for the Chesapeake Bay watershed.
ArcGIS 10 is Now Available
Transform the way you use GIS
ArcGIS 10 is now available, and is set to transform the way people use GIS technology. With this release, you'll find it even easier to be more productive with your work and you will be able to take advantage of GIS everywhere: via individual local desktops, across desktops and browsers leveraging central servers, and in the cloud.
"ArcGIS is a complete system that enables you to solve your most challenging issues," said Damian Spangrud, ESRI's ArcGIS product manager. "This release provides greater ease of use, more powerful analysis tools, additional Web GIS applications, and new mobile platforms. It also promotes collaboration via an online system for using, sharing, and organising geographic content."
Register for September/October Technology Directions
Join us for our full day seminars as we visit all capital cities
ESRI Australia will be running the next series of Technology Directions events across the country throughout September and October. These free, full day events will include detailed demonstrations and presentations on ArcGIS 10.
Many of our June and July seminars were at capacity, so make sure you register early to avoid disappointment.
Technology Directions will be held in eight locations:
- Darwin - 30 September
- Brisbane - 12 October
- Sydney - 13 October
- Melbourne - 14 October
- Hobart - 15 October
- Perth - 19 October
- Adelaide - 20 October
- Canberra - 21 October
For more information or to register, click on your closest event or visit www.esriaustralia.com.au/technology_directions
Seminars a Step in the Right 'Technology Direction'
June/July seminars come to a close
Amid the launch of ArcGIS 10, attendees at ESRI Australia's Technology Directions seminars, held in nine cities nation-wide over the months of June and July, were given an exclusive preview of just what to expect from the exciting new GIS technology platform.
Kicking off in Townsville on 8 June and wrapping up in Melbourne on 1 July, the free seminars featured something for everyone. Many attendees said they walked away from the event with a deeper understanding of their current GIS software, with the presenters' insider tips and demonstration proving popular.
Koala Diaries Goes National
Koala conservation comes to you
Koala Diaries has extended its reach and now covers Australia!
The Koala Diaries website - http://www.koaladiaries.com.au/ - helps tackle the questions no one can accurately answer:
- Just how many koalas are left?
- Where do they live?
- In what general condition?
The ESRI Australia supported website uses ESRI GIS technology to plot the points of koala sightings contributed by members of the public.
With hundreds of members and koala sightings recorded in Queensland since its launch in February, Koaladiaries.com.au is now available for the submission and viewing of sightings nationwide.
Koaladiaries.com.au and its Project Location-Koala Sighting Census may assist the community in identifying significant koala populations, "at risk" populations, and potentially even build an understanding of the home range movements of individual koalas where their location warrants special attention.
It is free to join Koaladiaries.com.au, as is the use of the data being gathered. Other functions of the site include education, a national koala carers' forum to share information, photo galleries and blog posts to keep members up-to-date with issues and changes at http://www.koaladiaries.com.au/.
Take Your Seat at the Spatial Roundtable
Have your say on using GIS to capture knowledge in the utility industry
ESRI's Spatial Roundtable provides a great opportunity for you to share your points of view about concerns, trends, challenges, and technologies. Participants in the online Spatial Roundtable discussion include the main contributor, who initiates the discussion, and invited topic-expert guests.
Have your say on the current topic: Building a knowledge infrastructure for utilities
ESRI Australia Supports GIS Schools Competition
Spatial Technology in Schools competition open for entries
ESRI Australia is proud to once again support the annual Spatial Technology in Schools competition. The competition sees students from across Australia use GIS technology in challenging, informative and fun ways to assist in solving a problem from any area of the curriculum. Find out moreOZRI / APUC 2010 Delegate Survey Winner
Congratulations!
Thank you to all OZRI / APUC 2010 attendees who completed our event survey form. Your responses will be used to help plan for OZRI 2011.
The winner of the Saeco Lavazza Espresso coffee machine is Halina Stanko from Woodside. Congratulations Halina!
Don't forget to put the date in your diary for OZRI 2011 - we hope to see you in Melbourne in October 2011.
Koala Diaries Website Wins GIS in Community Award
Award presented at OZRI / APUC 2010
A website created to undertake a koala sighting census in Queensland has been honoured with ESRI Australia’s GIS in Community Award.
The award was presented to Alex Harris and Carolyn Beaton in recognition of their innovative use of GIS in the Koala Diaries website - a first in terms of integrating technology with community engagement to record the occurrence of a single species in Queensland.
Over 500 Delegates Extend the Reach at OZRI / APUC
OZRI 2011 to be held in Melbourne
Geographic Information System (GIS) professionals from across the Asia Pacific region gathered this week to attend the combined OZRI and ESRI Asia Pacific User Conference (APUC), discussing the application of location intelligence to today's challenges.
At the close of the conference, ESRI Australia Managing Director Brett Bundock announced that OZRI 2011 will be held in Melbourne in October 2011. The OZRI 2011 call for papers will be released shortly.
ESRI Australia Acquires MapData Sciences
Acquisition finalised 26 February 2010
ESRI Australia is pleased to announce it has finalised its acquisition of MapData Sciences (MDS), an established online digital mapping and hosting company with clients across a variety of industry sectors.
Haiti Earthquake & Recovery Maps
Informing response and recovery efforts
Find out how location intelligence has been helping in the Haiti earthquake response and recovery efforts.
Information available includes:
- ESRI Geo Viewer
- ArcGIS Online Haiti Earthquake Content
- Updated Haiti imagery from Bing Maps
- Updated Haiti imagery from NOAA
- Haiti Basemap Data from United Nations
- Haiti Hospital Data from Direct Relief International
The Changing Definition of Enterprise GIS
When have you achieved enterprise status?
What is your definition of an enterprise GIS? How do you know when you have maximised your GIS investment? Is it when you have a centralised database that every department in the organisation contributes to, and the GIS department pushes that data back out?
ArcGIS 9.3.1 Service Pack 1 Now Available
Download the Service Pack
Overview
This Service Pack contains performance improvements and maintenance fixes. Please download and install this required Service Pack at your earliest convenience to ensure the highest-quality experience when working with ArcGIS 9.3.1.
If you experience problems downloading the Service Pack, please contact ESRI Australia Connect to request a DVD of the Service Pack.
Microsoft SQL Server Issue
Please note, if you use Microsoft SQL Server, an issue has been found where after applying 9.3.1 SP1 you can no longer view data in Raster catalogs stored in SQL Server. Please see ESRI's Technical Article 37463 for more information. To fix this issue simply install the ArcSDE 9.3.1 SP1 SQL Server Raster Catalog and Raster Field Patch.
An Environmentally Friendly Workplace
Survey results
Do we put in as much effort to be environmentally friendly in the workplace, as we would when we're home?
We asked the question last month what environmental measures people took at work, and the results were extremely positive.

And thanks to the 132 people who responded to the survey, we will be donating $660 to Greening Australia on their behalf.
OZRI / APUC 2010 Registration Now Open
Register by 29 January 2010 to receive early bird discount
Registration is now open for the combined 2010 OZRI / APUC Conference, being held on the Gold Coast, Australia, on 3 - 5 March 2010.
The conference incorporates the 2010 ESRI Asia Pacific user conference and ESRI Australia's national client conference OZRI, with ESRI president and founder Jack Dangermond confirmed as keynote speaker for the event.
Find out more about OZRI / APUC 2010
Dekho Integration Capabilities Extended
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ESRI Australia is pleased to announce the addition of three new integration extensions to the current range of Dekho application extensions. The three new extensions offer integration with SQL Server Reporting Services, TechnologyOne Works & Assets and Conquest. Find out more about the extensions availableGeoscience Australia Extends Location Intelligence Capability
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Geoscience Australia (GA) has signed a three year enterprise licence agreement (ELA) with ESRI Australia, extending access to location intelligence capabilities to GA staff across the country.A client of ESRI Australia for approximately 15 years, GA will use the agreement to maximise its return on investment in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) by delivering location intelligence capabilities across the organisation.
DEWHA Signs Enterprise Licence Agreement
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The Australian Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts (DEWHA) has signed a three year enterprise licence agreement (ELA) with ESRI Australia, providing access to location intelligence capabilities for DEWHA staff across the country.
The ELA includes Bureau of Meteorology (BOM), Murray Darling Basin Authority (MDBA), Australian Antarctic Division (AAD) and other agencies under the DEWHA portfolio.
ESRI Australia Staff Members Receive Top Honours
Craig Sandy & Maree Wilson recognised at industry awards event
Two ESRI Australia staff members were recognised for their contribution to the GIS industry at the recent ACT Spatial Excellence Awards.
Craig Sandy, ESRI Australia's Manager of Business Development for ACT was honoured for his service to the spatial community, while Professional Services Consultant Maree Wilson was awarded Young Spatial Professional of the Year.
Special Achievement in GIS Recognised
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A record three Australian organisations have been honoured with Special Achievement in GIS awards in recognition of extraordinary and innovative uses of GIS.
Victoria Police and the Department of Primary Industries and Water were presented with their awards at the Melbourne OZRI roadshow event on 4 August, with the ACT Emergency Services Agency Mapping and Planning Support (MAPS) unit receiving their award at the Canberra OZRI event on 11 August.
Dekho 3.0 Released
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ESRI Australia is pleased to announce the release of Dekho 3.0, the latest version of the locally developed location intelligence gateway. Delivering an improved user experience through significant performance gains, Dekho 3.0 offers additional functionality, including mash-ups and editing capability.
Read the full press release or find out more about Dekho 3.0.
ESRI Australia to Open New Office in Darwin
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Due to a growing strong demand for location intelligence solutions in the Northern Territory, ESRI Australia is pleased to announce it will open an office in Darwin in July. The office will provide a local base to deliver two major projects awarded via tender recently, as well as extend the company's solution offerings to existing clients in the Territory.
The Darwin office will be open by the end of July, with ESRI Australia's client conference roadshow, OZRI 2009, being held in Darwin on 31 August for ESRI Australia clients based in the Northern Territory.
July - Dec 09 Training Schedule Now Available
Overview
Plan your professional development for the upcoming financial year. We've recently released our training schedule for the remainder of 2009, with over 80 courses scheduled across the country during July-December.
From courses for people new to GIS, to those looking for advanced courses in ArcGIS, we've got a training course to suit your needs.
ArcPad 8 Now Available
Overview
The latest in mobile GIS - ArcPad 8 - is now available. This latest version of ArcPad includes new capabilities, performance improvements and quality enhancements. ArcPad Studio, the development framework to customise ArcPad, is now included with every ArcPad 8 licence.
With the release of version 8, ArcPad has become a maintenance-based product, enabling you to subscribe to annual maintenance to get ArcPad updates and technical support.
ArcGIS 9.3.1 Now Shipping
Overview
ArcGIS 9.3.1 updates are currently being dispatched to ESRI Australia clients under current maintenance. With new features and performance enhancements, ArcGIS 9.3.1 will make it easier for you to share information with others, whether it be online, throughout your organisation, or to external parties.
Find out more about what's new in ArcGIS 9.3.1, or get the answers to all your ArcGIS 9.3.1 questions from our FAQs page.
Dekho v2.2.6 Patch Release Now Available
Overview
The patch release provides resolution of issues known in Dekho v2.2.5.
For more information, download the Dekho v2.2.6 Release Note. For more information on downloading the patch, release please email ESRI Australia Connect.
Assisting Victorian Bushfire Recovery with Location Intelligence
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In the devastating aftermath of the Victorian bushfires, the level of destruction was on a scale never previously seen before in Australia. The massive task of implementing a wide-reaching recovery program included a requirement to manage enormous amounts of geographic information. To assist, ESRI Australia and ESRI Inc. pooled resources to provide location intelligence software and services to our clients involved in the recovery efforts. Along with ArcPad developers Maptel, ESRI Australia provided resources to assist the Victorian Water Police and Search and Rescue team with their field GIS tasks. ESRI Inc. sent Tom Patterson, a Wildland Fire Specialist and ex-firefighter to assist with these efforts, with a particular focus on replacing paper-based methods with electronic field data capture. As well as significant time savings, this enabled operational commanders to work with more up-to-date data and more closely analyse the search and recovery program using location intelligence.EView 4.3.6 Now Available
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The EView 4.3.6 minor release is now available for download via EView's built-in update process.
For more information on downloading EView 4.3.6, please email ESRI Australia Connect
Latest GISette Newsletter Released
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The latest edition of ESRI Australia's GISette newsletter is now available. Find out about all the latest news, events, case studies, technology tips and training information.
Dekho Set to Take Off in Asia Pacific
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ESRI Australia's locally developed location intelligence gateway Dekho will be officially launched in the Asia Pacific region at the upcoming ESRI Asia Pacific User Conference.
As platinum sponsor of the user conference, to be held in Singapore on 20-21 January 2009, ESRI Australia will be showcasing Dekho to hundreds of conference delegates from across the Asia Pacific.
Dekho draws on ESRI Australia's long history of innovation, which began with the development of EView. Built on the ArcGIS Server platform, which is unparalleled in the marketplace, Dekho is the culmination of 13 years of continual product development.
Dekho 2.2 Now Available
Overview
The latest version of Dekho, ESRI Australia's locally developed location intelligence gateway, is now available. With improvements to existing functionality and a range of new extensions available, Dekho 2.2 enhances the user experience and delivers improved administration including certification against ArcGIS Server 9.3 and IBM DB2 v9 for the Dekho configuration database.
Dekho 2.2 sees new extensions available to facilitate integration with:
- Civica Authority
- Infor Hansen
The new release also includes a number of user improvements, including single-sign-on for users, spatial searches using an attribute query and a default Dekho profile for users without specific defined access. These improvements along with others assist organisations in leveraging their Dekho investment across their enterprise whilst continually improving the user experience.
For more information, please download the Dekho 2.2 Release Note.
Westralia Airports Selects ESRI Australia for Corporate GIS
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Westralia Airports Corporation (WAC) has selected ESRI Australia in a recent tender to supply and implement a comprehensive Geographic Information System (GIS) to collate, store, maintain, analyse and disseminate spatial information across the organisation.
The enterprise GIS solution to be implemented by ESRI Australia for WAC will support a number of critical business needs, enabling improved asset management, lease and property management and planning, extending the location intelligence capabilities for WAC staff. The GIS will include internal self-service functionality, and integration with the organisation's corporate systems - initially focusing on asset and property management.
2009 January-June Training Schedule Released
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The training schedule for the first half of 2009 is now available. To find out what training courses are scheduled in your state, visit our online training calendar or .
Latest GISette Newsletter Now Available
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The latest edition of ESRI Australia's GISette newsletter is now available. Find out about all the latest news, events, case studies, technology tips and training information.
OZRI 2008 - A Great Success
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ESRI Australia's 22nd national client conference, OZRI 2008, was a great success, with 450 conference delegates attending the three day conference in Canberra.
The conference was opened by ESRI Australia Managing Director Brett Bundock, who used his keynote presentation to discuss the value and uniqueness of the GIS profession, and what the spatial industry offers now and in the future.
Brisbane City Council Selects ESRI Australia
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Brisbane City Council has selected ESRI Australia in a recent tender to supply an integrated Geographic Information System (GIS) Tools of Trade solution.
The largest local government in the Asia-Pacific region, Brisbane City Council covers an area of 1367 square kilometres, with a resident population of almost one million people - more than 24% of Queensland's total population.
The ESRI Australia enterprise-wide location intelligence solution chosen by Brisbane City Council will standardise and centralise the Council's GIS architecture, and will be rolled out over two phases.
Special Achievement Awards Announced
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7th August 2008 - Three Australian organisations have been announced as winners of Special Achievement in GIS (SAG) Awards at this week's ESRI User Conference in San Diego, California. Special Achievement in GIS Awards are given each year at the ESRI User Conference to recognise the extraordinary accomplishments of GIS users around the world
Department for Families & Communities Scoops SA Spatial Excellence Awards
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The South Australian Department for Families and Communities (DFC) was the big winner at the South Australian Spatial Excellence Awards 2008, winning two industry awards and their GIS Manager winning the major individual award.
The Department is an innovative user of location intelligence, and has integrated GIS into many of their business processes.
SA Water Extends Location Intelligence Capabilities
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SA Water is a government owned corporation, providing water and wastewater services to over 1.5 million customers in South Australia. To ensure continued high levels of customer service, and to meet increasingly stringent regulations, SA Water's location intelligence capability needed to be extended throughout the organisation and external parties, and integrated with other corporate databases.
Read the success story to find out how SA Water can now answer customer enquiries with increased efficiency and accuracy, reducing a backlog of enquiries and reducing staff overtime.
ESRI Australia Releases Dekho v2.1
Find out more about Dekho
Overview
The latest version of ESRI Australia's location intelligence gateway, Dekho v2.1, is now available. With improvements to existing functionality and a range of new extensions available, Dekho v2.1 enhances the user experience and delivers improved administration and additional security features.
ESRI Australia Drives Financial Services Growth with New Appointment
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ESRI Australia has appointed Telma Cordeiro to the role of its Financial Services Industry (FSI) Business Manager. This new appointment will see Cordeiro responsible for the growth of the FSI business for the company, supporting the company to deliver evolving location intelligence technology through a focus on the financial sector.
Latest GISette Newsletter Now Available
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The latest issue of The GISette, our 8 page newsletter, is now available. In this issue of The GISette, you'll hear how two Australian organisations are using location intelligence to gain significant benefits across their organisations. The newsletter also includes the latest training and event information, and a round up of ESRI Australia company news.
Download The GISette
OZRI 2008 Online Registration Now Open
Access the online registration form
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Registration is now open for ESRI Australia's 22nd national client conference, OZRI 2008. To be held at the National Convention Centre in Canberra on 27-29 October, this year'’s OZRI will focus on the theme 'Putting knowledge into place'.
Registration is now target=_blank>available online, with a $110 discount off the standard registration fee available for delegates who register before 29 August. The registration brochure, incorporating the provisional program, is currently being finalised, and will be available in mid June.
ESRI Australia Partners With SSI
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ESRI Australia today announced its partnership with the Spatial Sciences Institute (SSI), joining the industry body's Sustaining Partners Program as a Platinum Plus Partner.
As the first organisation to partner with SSI at the Platinum Plus level, the partnership identifies ESRI Australia as one of the country's leading location intelligence organisations.
Next Generation Location Intelligence Gateway Launched
Find out more about Dekho
Overview
ESRI Australia is proud to announce the release of our next generation location intelligence gateway, Dekho. Dekho gives users the ability to link seemingly independent information together from corporate databases and systems using location as the common theme.
With the Internet version released at OZRI 2007 in October last year, the new version of Dekho provides the more sophisticated functionality required in an intranet environment, such as third party application integration, redlining, bookmarks, improved security and Active Directory integration.
DFC Opens Door to On Demand Imagery Access
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The South Australian Department for Families and Communities (DFC) has long understood the importance of providing its staff with easy access to corporate information, implementing a comprehensive internal portal for staff to access demographic research, analyse suitable housing and facilitate asset queries. Late last year, DFC decided to expand upon this portal, and include a wide range of key Departmental imagery for staff to access.
Learn more from this case study about how DFC has reduced the time between acquiring and publishing images from several weeks to a few hours, increasing the usage and value of the Department’s geospatial imagery.
QLD Government Shares Location Intelligence Across the Enterprise
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The Queensland Government has implemented ESRI server GIS technology at an enterprise level, making the technology available to all users of GovNet, the Queensland Government’s intranet site.
The server-based technology allows all staff members from Queensland Government to access the Information Queensland (IQ) online atlas through a map viewer.
WA Schools Spatial Competition Winners
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ESRI Australia would like to congratulate the winners of the 2007 Western Australia Spatial Technology in Schools Competition, announced in front of more than 100 students, teachers, mentors and sponsors at a recent prize giving event.
As part of our commitment to developing schools student’s knowledge of location intelligence and GIS, ESRI Australia provided software free of charge for schools entering the competition.
2007 Web GIS Challenge Winners Announced
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Geoscience Australia's MapConnect website was announced winner of the 2007 Web GIS Challenge at this week's ESRI Australia national client conference, OZRI 2007. The City of Whitehorse's Whitehorse Mapping - GIS Online website was awarded runner up.
The MapConnect website received the most votes from the Australian GIS community, and was voted as having the best mapping website in the country in terms of innovation, ease of use, clarity of information, functionality and overall look.
Dekho, ESRI Australia's Next Generation Web GIS Gateway, Launched at OZRI 2007
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Dekho, ESRI Australia's next generation web GIS gateway, was launched on Tuesday 16 October 2007 at the 21st ESRI Australia national client conference, OZRI 2007.
Dekho experts delivered an overview presentation and live demonstrations which outlined the features, functionality and benefits of this exciting new technology.
EastLink Project Wins Spatial Excellence Award
Read the EastLink Project Success Story
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ESRI Australia client Thiess John Holland received the Infrastructure and Construction award for their use of GIS in the ground-breaking EastLink Project at the recent 2007 Victorian Spatial Excellence Awards.
Special Achievement in GIS Award
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The City of Greater Geelong was presented with the Special Achievement in GIS (SAG) Award for Australia at ESRI Australia's recent national client conference, OZRI 2007.
The SAG Award was presented to the City of Greater Geelong for their innovative asset inspection system, which was designed to meet both current and future asset maintenance requirements.
International GIS Day 2007
GIS Day aims to educate students, teachers and the general public about GIS, and how this technology is used by more than two million people around the world every day. GIS Day provides an international forum for users of geographic information systems (GIS) technology to demonstrate real-world applications that are making a difference in our society. More than 80 countries will participate in holding local events such as corporate open houses, hands-on workshops, community expos, school assemblies, and more.
For more information about GIS Day, visit http://www.gisday.com/. 