GeoLabs

UPDATE: I downloaded the full postal codes listing for Australia from Australia Post’s website. I then wrote a script to geocode these postcodes by querying the Geonames postcode API. Here is a file with all the postcodes I couldn’t find in Geonames. Next I will spatially look for the electoral divisions for the postcodes I [...]

Sydney Australia… woohoo! its about time the FOSS4G conference came down under. So what’s gonna be so cool about it? Going by the press release the conference will have the usual suspects - the passionate community of users and developers - but some of them may be disguised in suits.
Yes you heard me SUITS!… [...]

One of our contributers Shoaib gave a talk at an Australian Government agency. Here are his slides. Best viewed with his talk notes.

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The ASIBA last week release a set of recommendations for the Australian government. These recommendations were based on a economic study evaluating what the spatial industry in Australia is worth. A staggering 6-12 billion dollars is the figure mentioned.
But lets look at the recommendations: I quite like the aims of some of these: government [...]