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NT Spatial 2011 Spatially Enabling Government: Decision Making, Data Quality and Coverage

The document discusses spatially enabling government decision making in the Northern Territory of Australia. It outlines the role of the Department of Lands and Planning in providing spatial data and mapping services. It identifies the need for accurate, up-to-date spatial information to support complex government decisions. While core datasets like cadastre and imagery cover most areas, some information is outdated or incomplete. The plan is to improve partnerships, leverage existing systems, audit spatial data needs, and potentially pass legislation to standardize how location data is captured and shared across government.

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NT Spatial 2011 Spatially Enabling Government: Decision Making, Data Quality and Coverage

The document discusses spatially enabling government decision making in the Northern Territory of Australia. It outlines the role of the Department of Lands and Planning in providing spatial data and mapping services. It identifies the need for accurate, up-to-date spatial information to support complex government decisions. While core datasets like cadastre and imagery cover most areas, some information is outdated or incomplete. The plan is to improve partnerships, leverage existing systems, audit spatial data needs, and potentially pass legislation to standardize how location data is captured and shared across government.

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DEPARTMENT OF

LANDS AND PLANNING

NT Spatial 2011
Spatially Enabling Government
Decision Making, Data Quality and Coverage

Tony Gill, Director Land Information Services


4 February 2011

www.nt.gov.au
Overview
• Role of Land Information Services

• Information needs of decision making

• Current coverage

• Information gaps

• Plan of action

SEG: Generate significant opportunities to deliver integrated services to the community and
an enabling component of joined-up-government

DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND PLANNING


www.nt.gov.au
Land Information Services
• Our role includes;

– Aerial and Satellite imagery acquisition

– Topographic information capture and management

– Mapping services

– Supply of spatial information

– Provision of maps and other land information based products

SEG: Generate significant opportunities to deliver integrated services to the community and
an enabling component of joined-up-government

DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND PLANNING


www.nt.gov.au
Spatially Enabling Government
• Range of activities, not all fully funded, including;
– Establishing location and street addressing services

– Improved coverage, currency and quality of imagery and


mapping

– Provision of satellite-based positioning infrastructure and facilities

– Assistance to agencies to spatially enable their information and


business operations, and

– Provision of a governance framework for the realisation of SEG benefits

SEG: Generate significant opportunities to deliver integrated services to the community and
an enabling component of joined-up-government

DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND PLANNING


www.nt.gov.au
Decision Making Needs
What is Industry saying…

“A picture paints a thousand words, but a map tells the whole story!”
- Maber

“Organisations not using the location element of retained or acquired business


information are missing out on a valuable ingredient when making
decisions”
- Maber

“spatial elements in data are the glue that binds information together”
– HaverKamp

“digital spatial information is a matter of public trust”


- Schell

SEG: Generate significant opportunities to deliver integrated services to the community and
an enabling component of joined-up-government

DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND PLANNING


www.nt.gov.au
Decision Making Needs …
What is Government saying …

“Decisions are based on information and knowledge”

and as a consequence

“information must be easy to access securely, accurate, reliable, timely


and usable”

NTG ICT Strategic Intent 2010-15

SEG: Generate significant opportunities to deliver integrated services to the community and
an enabling component of joined-up-government

DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND PLANNING


www.nt.gov.au
Decision Making Needs …
• Complex issues – e.g. Closing The Gap

– require sound sources of information that span agencies and levels of


government

• spatial is the “glue” that is the enabler

– Key is ensuring prior availability of quality authoritative information

• Risk in policy and operational decisions being made that are not
only flawed and costly, but could put lives at risk.

SEG: Generate significant opportunities to deliver integrated services to the community and
an enabling component of joined-up-government

DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND PLANNING


www.nt.gov.au
Current coverage
• Cadastre

• Road network

• Standardised Statistical Geography


– Regions, Sub-regions, Local Government, Towns, Localities, Placenames

• Imagery
– Major urban/rural areas
– Major Indigenous communities
– 60-70% of smaller communities and homelands

• Topographic information

SEG: Generate significant opportunities to deliver integrated services to the community and
an enabling component of joined-up-government

DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND PLANNING


www.nt.gov.au
Information Gaps
• Mapping and imagery currency

• Rights, restrictions and responsibilities (RRR)


– Not all are recorded
– Multiple registers
– No single point-of-truth or discovery mechanism

• Agency operational boundaries


– Not all captured or available

• Consistency in recording of location


– Standards for recording location across ALL government systems

SEG: Generate significant opportunities to deliver integrated services to the community and
an enabling component of joined-up-government

DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND PLANNING


www.nt.gov.au
Plan of Action
• Partnerships
– Commonwealth, Local Government

• ILIS
– Expand the knowledge of capability of existing NTG information

• Legislation and Regulation Audit


– Identify spatial or location references/requirements

• Spatial Information Management and Coordination Act?


– Effective recording of location in business systems
– Capture and availability of this information

SEG: Generate significant opportunities to deliver integrated services to the community and
an enabling component of joined-up-government

DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND PLANNING


www.nt.gov.au
Thank you - Questions?

SEG: Generate significant opportunities to deliver integrated services to the community and
an enabling component of joined-up-government

DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND PLANNING


www.nt.gov.au

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