Pillar: Planning
Lead directorate: EPSDD
Overview
The ACT Government’s location information is housed and maintained on hard drives and servers spread across directorates. For example, the road centrelines are maintained by one directorate where another has information about the road surface, heavy vehicle routes and speed. This makes it difficult to understand the breath of information ACT Government holds and supply comprehensive open datasets. The migration (or linking) of location information into one searchable location will ensure better analytics and insight as well as streamline decision making based on authoritative data.
Benefits
To solve this, ACT Government are building an enterprise-wide geospatial platform providing a single user interface and storage repository for all authoritative ACT Government location information. Housing all geospatial data such as cadastral, asset, infrastructure, environment and transport the platform will support internal spatial data analysis supporting critical decision making. It will also provide a mechanism for spatial data to be shared to open data platforms and directly with government partners. The system will host ACTmapi and other public mapping applications to ensure everyone can access government location information efficiently.
The platform will be used to provide up to date mapping and spatial data to industry, academia and the community. It will not only enable better planning and decision making, it will also allow entrepreneurs and business to develop new applications based on authoritative location information. The system and content will form the foundation for a future digital twin.
Status update
| Date | Update |
|---|---|
| October 2021 | The Unified Geospatial Ecosystem Program will soon showcase its vast benefits; staff are currently curating ACT Government location data from across a number of directorates to place into the system. The data will be required to follow best practice data management process; put simply the data should be FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable). Curated datasets can then be combined to make whole of government datasets such as the transport centreline dataset; a combination of EPSDD road centrelines, TCCS assets (i.e. walking and cycling paths) and Parks and Conservation tracks & trails. As permitted these curated datasets will be shared publicly through the ACTmapi system for open consumption (viewing, streaming and downloading). The Geospatial Ecosystem technology stack has been built and the team are working with users to ensure the benefit of the unified system is realised. |