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- To make accurate and authoritative geospatial
Geographical Names and Geospatial Information: Implications and - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Geographical Names and Geospatial Information: Implications and - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Geographical Names and Geospatial Information: Implications and Considerations Greg Scott Director, National Geographic Information, Geoscience Australia Senior Advisor, UNSD UN-GGIM: Vision To make accurate and authoritative geospatial
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What’s in a name?
Geographical Names
Accurate, knowledgeable, consistent, sustained, reliable, standardized, transparent, enduring, agreed, official
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Geospatial Information
Imagery Elevation Land Use Bathymetry Geodetic Transport Hydrology Administrative Property Address
Building any National Spatial Data Infrastructure requires authoritative national framework data themes
What’s in a place?
Geographical Names bring context and understanding to the data. They provide “place” to “location”
Geographical Names
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What’s the problem?
- Geographical names or geospatial information – the
challenges, implications and considerations are the same – ‘place’ and ‘location’
- Lack of understanding by users – geonames,
geography, maps, education – interface changing
- Traditional use of maps and data – points, lines,
polygons, names – no longer conforms
- We are used to order and structure….but the world is
becoming less ordered and less structured!!
- Need to move in terms of thinking, institutional
arrangements, data usage, dissemination, etc.
- Data is not being fully utilized. New forms of
integration and dissemination required
- Conversely, data is being integrated and used in ways
we never imagined
Implications and Considerations
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Data and information…a user’s view…
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Education and geography…
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Thailand: One Tablet Per Child
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http://www.geographycompetition.org.au/sites/default/files/2012%20Questions%20Booklet%20%282.6MB%29.pdf
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- Value of authoritative and reliable geo-information is not fully realized,
by community, but especially by politicians and decision makers
- Too busy dealing with the issues, not the mechanisms that help
provide the evidence base, information, and knowledge
- Lack of institutional arrangements – no clear understanding of the roles
and mandates – no policy framework and leadership
- Sharing information does not come easy
- Struggling to deal/compete with data from publicly and privately
sourced information – credibility, accuracy, legitimacy, status
- Information integration will continue to evolve at a fast pace, pushed by
commercial interests and user demand
- Data fusion and analytics:
‘data-information-knowledge-understanding-action-outcome’
Considerations for Governments
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Data fusion and analytics for evidence- based decision making…
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Trajectory of Tropical Cyclone Yasi, 2-3 February 2011
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Queensland
- Unemployment rate – 5.5%
- Working age participation rate – 71.7%
- Identify as Indigenous – 3.0%
- Single parent families – 16.1% of families w/children
- English main language spoken – 86.4%
Integrating geo-statistical information
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Logan City
Cedar Grove
- Unemployment rate – 7.2%
- Working age participation rate – 70.4%
- Identify as Indigenous – 1.9%
- Lone parent families – 16% of families w/children
- English main language spoken – 92.3%
Woodridge
- Unemployment rate – 21.8%
- Working age participation rate – 57.9%
- Identify as Indigenous – 4.8%
- Lone parent families – 47% of families w/children
- English main language spoken – 69.8%
Integrating geo-statistical information
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Geo-statistical information integration and analysis
Integrating & sharing information
Geospatial Authority
Agreed institutional arrangements
Statistics Authority Health Services Immigration Education Social Services Government Community Research & Industry
Authoritative Geo-information Framework
25 Smith St = x,y: 35.5676, 135.6587
Highest resolution analysis & integration
Statistical Level Indicators Logan
Better targeted decisions, interventions, and policies
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Monitoring S ustainable Development: Why Location Matters?
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Agenda
- Professor Sir Bob Watson CMG FRS, Chief Scientific Adviser,
Department for Food, Environment and Rural Affairs (Defra), UK Government
- Dr Vanessa Lawrence CB, Co-chair of the United Nations
Committee of Experts for GGIM and Director General and CEO, Ordnance Survey, Great Britain
- Mr Greg S
cott, Director, Geographic Information, Australian Government
- Dr Luiz Paulo Souto Fortes, Chair of the United Nations Permanent
Committee on Geographic Information for the Americas
- Professor Sir John Beddington CMG FRS, Chief Scientific Advisor,
United Kingdom Government
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Sustainable development: location matters
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Monitoring Sustainable Development: Why Location Matters United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development
Management of water resources in the national interest
Groundwater and surface water modelling and reporting
Geospatial information and relationships
Evidence based decision making Service delivery Engaging the community Policy development
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“I am also pleased to see that the importance of reliable, trusted geographic information is now recognised. The United Nations has now established a Committee of Experts of Member States, which the UK co-chairs, to move this agenda forward”
Rt Hon Nick Clegg MP, Deputy Prime Minister, United Kingdom Government, Rio+20 June 2012
The importance of geospatial information
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