future directions for community access to natural resources
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Future directions forCommunity Access to
Natural ResourcesInformation (CANRI)
Jonathan Doig02 9895 7781
www.nratlas.nsw.gov.au
SEEGRID II March 2005
Presentation outline
� The story so far...� Recent successes� Current activities� Continuing challenges� Emerging issues
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Why Community Access to NaturalResources Information?
Supports government's natural resourcereform agenda:
� regional natural resource managementcommittees
� plan and oversee reforms� need to combine government and
community-held information
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The CANRI idea
An open platform for information sharing toimprove natural resource management
by the whole community
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The CANRI program
� Four years to June 2004 + supplement this FY
� Nearly $1m each year� All NSW natural resources agencies
led by DIPNR� Board allocated funds to ~30 projects
each year
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High-level support
"CANRI is a really exciting project ...What CANRIdoes is not only bring [governmentinformation] together, without taking it awayfrom departments but, more importantly,makes it accessible to the community. That’show modern government should be.”
Hon. Dr Andrew RefshaugeNSW Deputy Premier
The story so far...
Catalogue
DataDirectory
The CANRI Spatial Data Infrastructurelinking data services into business applications
Business applications
ServiceCatalogue
DIPNR
Web Map Servers
TopowebCapabilities
LPI
EnterpriseDatabaseCapabilities
LandSat7Capabilities
DIPNRParksCapabilities
DEC
RainfallCapabilities
NASA
Internet
Web Feature Servers
Water QualityCapabilities
DIPNR
Wildlife AtlasCapabilities
NPWS
The story so far...
LandsGeospatial
Portal
CANRINatural
ResourceAtlas
DIPNRWater
Quality(test data)
Bio-diversity
Demo(test data)
NaturalResources
DataDirectory
NPWSWildlifeAtlas
PlanConnect
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CANRI projects & outcomes
� 108 projects undertaken� > 30 tailored websites� Impressive range of products: water, soils,
community monitoring, Landcare groups,species identification, geology, State ofEnvironment reporting
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NSW river data
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SPADE - report
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NSW node of the Australian Coastal Atlas
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Wildlife Atlas of NSW
State of Environment reporting
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Landcare
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PlantNET
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FishFiles
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The new CANRI portal
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NSW Natural Resource Atlas
www.nratlas.nsw.gov.au
The story so far...
NRAtlas 1
NRAtlas 2
NRAtlas 3
NRAtlas 4
NRAtlas 5
NRAtlas 6
NRAtlas 7
NRAtlas 8
NRAtlas 9
NRAtlas 10
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Soil profiles
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Vegetation - NSW formations
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Vegetation - 1:100K map sheets
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Recent successes
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Official endorsement by agency CEOs
� The 'one-stop-shop' for delivering naturalresource maps and data to the public onbehalf of CMA's
� Agreed to maintain NRAtlas & itsunderlying multi-agency framework
� NRAtlas will be updated with maps & datafrom all agencies - core business
Recent successes
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Regional training workshops
� 16 workshops reaching 161 people� Regional community support officers &
front desk staff� 94% “would use it” in their work� Further training requested� Useful detailed feedback
Recent successes
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Current activities
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Useability upgrade out real soon now
� Much faster homepage: 50s � 10s� API for any quickmap or layer, any extent� Firefox browser support� Remove back button etc� > 60 other improvementsPreview: test.nratlas.nsw.gov.au
Current activities
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Access upgrade in planning
� Crawl page for Google� Expose WMS/WFS for GIS users and
developers� "Home page" for each map and layer
Current activities
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Web Feature Server for Water Quality
� 2002-03 pilot with ESRI and SCO software� Now comparing ESRI and Geoserver WFS� Graphs, tables and download
(plus map and query)� WFS for NRM indicator reporting� Community(?) WFS schema for water quality� Project website on www.seegrid.csiro.au
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Populating NRAtlas with regional data
� Priorities set by CMAs� Vegetation mapping� Local projects and studies
Current activities
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SDI working group formed
For Natural Resources and Planning sectorDraft workplan includes:� WMS profile & compliance monitoring� Service level agreements� Improvements to existing services� New services: more WMS, gazetteer WFS
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Continuing challenges
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Defining the question - NRM targets
� More than 10 years of effort� Current effort in NSW has legislative basis� Requirement to set and meet targets� Targets must aggregate to smaller scales
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Product awareness
� Promotion (& having a good product)� Mainstreaming - linking, embedding� Googlability - If it ain’t on Google...
Continuing challenges
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Useability
� Waddyamean query the map?� Adding layers (exposing content)� Getting where (and what) you want
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Content
� Publishing process not easy� Lack of custodian commitment
- not with my data!� Unstable data services� SLAs and monitoring needed
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Emerging issues
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Multiple catalogues
� Access existing Commonwealth datawithout duplicate catalogue
� A resident of Tweed Heads views a mapusing data from Commonwealth, Qld,NSW and Tweed Shire Council
Emerging issues
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Data error
� Standard error encoding in data� Intuitive error portrayal in clients
Emerging issues
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Time series
� NRM focus is changing resource condition� NRM indicators summarise change� Data services need temporal structure� Clients need to portray change
Emerging issues
Questions?
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