Category Archives: Australia

Documenting Drought (Beyond Reasonable Drought)

By shoaib | Published: 2008/09/14
An eye on the drought, 2007 Originally uploaded by Old Parliament House Today while riding by bike around Canberra I stopped over at the old parliament house to catchup with a friend. I was blown away by a stunning exhibition called “Beyond Reasonable Drought”. The exhibition documents in photos the effects of drought on the people, livestock [...]
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A proud day for Australian Democracy

By shoaib | Published: 2008/06/16
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 [...]
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FOSS4G 2009 and the winner is … Sydney!

By shoaib | Published: 2008/02/18
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!… [...]
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Can Government learn interoperability from Web2.0?

By editor | Published: 2007/11/13
One of our contributers Shoaib gave a talk at an Australian Government agency. Here are his slides. Best viewed with his talk notes. embed | view on slideshare
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There’s still hope for Australia’s spatial industry

By shoaib | Published: 2007/11/12
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 [...]
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