Steve Jacoby

Chair QSIC,

General-Manager - Spatial Information

Department of Environment & Resource Management

steven.jacoby@derm.qld.gov.au

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The Changing Role of Government

in the Spatial Information Industry

3 September, 2010

The Brief…

Changing capacities in the spatial industry

Opportunities for collaboration between government, industry &

academia

Future shape of the industry

New challenges and opportunities for government and the

industry as a whole

Moving to 3D

models &

visualisation

Mobile

Applications

Most recently,

Augmented Reality

…what’s next?

Current state

Rapid take-up and acceptance of spatial applications by the

public, e.g.

In car navigation

web mapping

Location based services – mobile applications

Augmented reality – new iphones & android phones

Driven increasingly by business not government

Government, however, remains a major source of data

Access to government information remains problematic

Importance of information, information management, access,

timeliness, & quality now well appreciated (if not funded…)

Getting the balance right

•HR Policy

•Whole-of-Government

& organisational policy

•Policy &

Priorities

•PEOPLE

•INFORMATION •POLICY

•FISCAL

•Resources &

delivery

Ken Smith, Director-General Department of Premier & Cabinet

Whole of Government Drivers

Right To Information Act 2009 & Information Privacy Act 2009

Proactive release of information (RTI)

Service Delivery

„One Government‟ approach

13 Departments

Smart Service Queensland

Your front door to Queensland Government 13 13 04 www.qld.gov.au

Whole of Government Drivers

Right To Information Act 2009

Proactive release of information vs FoI

Service Delivery

„One Government‟ approach

13 Departments

Smart Service Queensland

Towards Q2 through ICT (Qld Govt ICT Strategy)

ICT Consolidation

Governance

GEA Policy

IS (Information Standards)

Towards Q2 through ICT 2009-2014

The Queensland Government’s strategy for government ICT

New priority introduced under

Accessible Government

Improving information

management and access:

“Develop an action plan and

supporting information

architecture for access to

Queensland spatial information”

DERM is the lead agency

Spatially enabling Queensland Govt.

Reporting through QSIC and the

Information Management

Subcommittee

Users

Spatially Enabling Queensland Government~ Draft Pathways (stage 1)

Qld Govt

Spatial Information

Assets

Dataset

Metadata

record

GILF

Licence

Standards

QGCIO

(IS)

Legislation

Govt. Information

Catalogue

IQ Atlas

Identification and

Classification Custodianship

Discovery

Delivery and Access

QGIS Data

Download

Service

ISOStandards

QSIC

ANZLIC

Agency

policiesAgency

policies

Right To

Information

Legislation

ISOMetadata

Profiles

Agency

policies

EnablersEnablers

Enablers

Custodians(Publisher, Content, IM)

Crowdsourcing &

Structured Feedback

Spatially enabling the Queensland Government

Existing policies and procedures

Legislation:

•Right To Information Act 2009–http://www.legislation.qld.gov.au/LEGISLTN/ACTS/2009/09AC013.pdf

•Information Privacy Act 2009–http://www.legislation.qld.gov.au/LEGISLTN/ACTS/2009/09AC014.pdf

Strategy:

•Towards Q2 Through ICT (2009 – 2014)–http://www.qgcio.qld.gov.au/qgcio/strategies/Pages/TowardQ2throughICT.aspx

Information Asset Identification & Classification:

•IS2 ICT Resources Strategic Planning ~ Annual ICT Baseline

–http://www.qgcio.qld.gov.au/qgcio/architectureandstandards/informationstandards/current/Pages/index.aspx

•Longhaus Baseline (commercial release)

–http://www.longhaus.com/services-mainmenu-41/baseline-government-ict.html

•ISO 19115 Geographic Information

–http://www.iso.org/iso/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=26020

•Identification and Classification of information assets

–(QGEA Guideline – see IS44)`

Spatially enabling the Queensland Government

Existing policies and procedures (continued)

Custodianship:

•IS44 Information Asset Custodianship

–http://www.qgcio.qld.gov.au/qgcio/architectureandstandards/informationstandards/toolbox/Pages/InformationAssetCustodianship.aspx

•IS18 Information Security

–http://www.qgcio.qld.gov.au/qgcio/architectureandstandards/informationstandards/current/Pages/Information%20Security.aspx

•IS33 Information Access and Use

–http://www.qgcio.qld.gov.au/qgcio/architectureandstandards/informationstandards/current/Pages/InformationAccessandUse.aspx

•GILF – Government Information Licensing Framework (QGEA position)

–http://www.qgcio.qld.gov.au/SiteCollectionDocuments/Architecture%20and%20Standards/QGEA%202.0/GILF%20Position.pdf

Spatially enabling the Queensland Government

Existing policies and procedures (continued)

Delivery & Access:

•Information Queensland

–http://www.information.qld.gov.au/

•IQ Online Atlas

–http://gis.qld.gov.au/iqed/map/

•QGIS – Queensland Government Information Service

–http://dds.information.qld.gov.au/dds/

Spatially enabling the Queensland Government

Existing policies and procedures (continued)

QSIC foundation datasets that

DERM is nominated as lead agency

Reference Stations

Permanent Survey Marks

Cadastre

Local Government

boundaries

Locality boundaries

Natural Resource

Management Regional

boundaries

Location Address

Land Ownership

Aerial Photography

Satellite Imagery

Place Names

Elevation

Coastline

Road Network (with DTMR)

Rail Network

Surface Water (including Gauging Stations)

Groundwater

Built Water Environment

Dams

Topographic

Climate

Regional Ecosystems

Soils

Various stages of coverage, accuracy and availability

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Queensland Government Information Service

Search

Review

Select dataset

Select format

Licence

Customer details

Receive download link

Download

Digital Data Directions

Right To Information Act (2009) provides clear direction on

proactive release of government information

Access & Use policy states that government information is to be

provided to the maximum extent possible, free of charge

A GILF licence is to be progressively implemented (should be

CC-BY) for government information

SIG has established targets for progressive release of datasets

via QGIS – reported via DERM‟s Annual Report and Service

Delivery Statement to Estimates (150 datasets by 2010/11)

Access vs Capability

Access is critical, but current model promotes fragmentation

QGIS helps, but is not the final solution!

Workshop conducted by QGCIO‟s Office (25th June) on Leveraging & Sharing CIO Experiences and Resources

CIO‟s all State Departments

CIO‟s from SEQ Councils

CIO‟s from Queensland Universities

Top priority was a call for a “Shared Data Hub” for spatial & land information

Single Point of Truth – continual improvement

Shared infrastructure (potentially cloud based)

Virtually unanimous across 40 CIO‟s

Non-contentious… if we can‟t do this!

To be addressed in the Towards Q2 through ICT Action Plan…

What‟s changed?

Data Hub concept from 1980‟s?

Maturity (technology & people – Spatial professionals & public)

Authorising Environment (RTI Act, policies, etc)

Efficiency & Effectiveness

Reuse, before you buy, before you build

Technology consolidation (government)

GFC – focus on value

Less silos in government

Successful Data acquisition & sharing agreements (many years)

Don‟t want competing geographies - SPOT

Higher resolutions / currency / volumes driving central solutions

Imagery

Lidar

Spatial Data Challenges

Area / Extent

Currency

Content /

Inter-

operability

Accuracy /

Resolution

/ Objectives

Queensland

Basic Layers• parcels

• properties

• addresses

• roads

• elevation

• topography

• imagery

• boundaries

• infrastructure

• planning…Real time

(full history & forward projections)

from

Metres

(100’s

~ 10’s)

to mm

Example: Ergon Energy‟s ROAMES program

DERM has been working closely with Ergon on:

DCDB upgrade processes to support ROAMES

Utilising high resolution imagery & Lidar

Data volumes are huge

Imagery at 4cm resolution

Lidar at 40 points per sq m

Frequency of collection annually

Estimate 1 Petabyte spatial data p.a.

QGIS or multi-agency storage of this content is not feasible

New solutions will be required

Challenges / Opportunities for the Industry

Continuing to promote / demand access to all spatial data sets

(RTI Act)

Spatially Enabling the Queensland Government Action Plan

~ Towards Q2 through ICT

Investigating a “Data Hub” for Queensland‟s land & spatial

information (present & future data)

Investigation & deployment of a unified Positioning Infrastructure

(GNSS / CORS) for Queensland

Collaborating and supporting key spatial information programs

eg. Ergon Energy‟s ROAMES initiative

Continuing the good work to develop the Queensland spatial

industry in a mature and progressive manner