Raising the Profile of the Spatial Industry

"You work in an industry frankly not many people understand. It is more than an in-car navigation system or Google Map" His Excellency Rear Admiral Scarce, Governor of South Australia.

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This page is to help you understand and explain what 'spatial' is all about to business people, schoolchildren, politicians, anyone and everyone, in ways that mean something to them personally. They is touched by it, but don't all appreciate the value yet.

Resources

Learning Tools

A free "Guide to Nonprofit GIS and Online Mapping" PDF for staff and volunteers of grassroots groups, voluntary sector organizations, etc. It's chock full of cartography for a good cause, free and low-cost tools and data sources, Although the data source section is currently very US-centric. Very reader friendly and expains the buzz words.

Fundamentals of Mapping
New, free Australian resource

Intro to GIS CD

Blogspot spatial and the law

What is surveying all about? with great video

Scroll to the bottom of Govhack for a short video explaining how the government is unleashing public data data.australia.gov.au

The Climate Change Interoperability Plugfest just launched by the OGC is described as a “an easy and convenient way for the climate change and technology communities to work on a one to one basis. "

OGC Spatial Law and Policy Summit

An entertaining and educational presentation by Industry visionary Peter Batty to CIOs at the Walis forum in Perth.

A fantastic public media web video series about "the world of digital mapping and how it is changing the way we think, behave, and interact". It is being used to educate the public and politicians in the US.

A day in the life of a surveyor (6 minute youtube)

Spatial analysis for urban planning (youtube - good intro of applications and benefits before it gets very technical)

Social, economic, political and environmental maps providing a highly visual starting point for those interested in understanding the issues within a global context and the correlations between them.

Presentation Megan Stanley and Jose Diacono's Surveying and Spatial Sciences Conference Presentation

For schools/promoting careers in spatial

http://www.destinationspatial.org


Initiatives we could get involved in

National ICT careers week is run in July by the Australian Information Industry Association and the Australian Computer Society. It combines the activities of 90 organisations, organises bus tours for careers advisers and is widely publicised.

http://www.stelr.org.au/

STELR ’Science and Technology Education Leveraging Relevance’ is a national education initiative to show school students how science, technology and engineering are relevant to Australian life by focusing on climate change. It talks about maths and science – how can they possibly do it without spatial?


http://www.extremescience.com.au/

video on youtube


http://www.ictcareersweek.info/

 

Article by Alan Weiss about selling professional services has ideas that can be applied to "Selling" spatial and securing budgets for data quality improvment.

Please email other links or if you would like to collaborate on profile raising activities.