BOP Regional Council Geospatial Services Michele Hosking & Dave Withington

BOP Regional Council Geospatial ServicesMichele Hosking & Dave Withington

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Agenda

• We can help• Local Government datasets

– What– How to get them

• Your data• Basic skills of a geospatial professional• Dataset run through

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• Provide datasets• Provide advice (within reason)• Put you in contact with our colleagues in

other councils• Unable to provide analysis• Large format printing at a cost

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Local Govt datasets

• Wide range of data for many different purposes

• Most can be provided free of charge

• Some have restrictions on them

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Datasets available from local govt

• Catchments• Contours• District plan zones• Land features• Vegetation• Soils• Etc…

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Accessing our datasets

At the moment:• Send an email to:

GeoSpatial.JobRequests@boprc.govt.nz• Sign a data licence agreement

Planned:

Access via a easy to use website

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Your data

• It would be great if you want share it with us.

• It could help us make more informed decisions.

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Basic skills of a geospatial professional

• Data analysis• Cartographic skills• GPS knowledge• Database management• Raster and Vector understanding• Scripting• Understanding Projections and Datums

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Bay of Plenty Regional Council GIS Datasets

• Data we can supply:– Data created for us– Data created by us– Data freely available

• Data we can supply:– Data created by other organisations

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Sand Dunes

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High Value Ecological Sites and Biodiversity Sites

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Pre-human Vegetation

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1840 Vegetation

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Land Cover

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Geology

http://www.gns.cri.nz/Home/Our-Science/Energy-Resources/Geological-Mapping/Geological-Maps/1-250-000-QMAP/

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Soils

http://soils.landcareresearch.co.nz

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Māori Place Names and Marae Locations

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Aerial Photography

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How to get hold of our data

• Please let us know:

– Your area of interest (a map is good!)– What data you are after– Why you would like it – All your contact details