The Surveying and Spatial Sciences Institute, Queensland Young Professionals Committee (SSSIQ YPs) are running their MapMyTown project for the first time in 2010.
The project: The MapMyTown project aims to use as many available spatial & surveying technologies and methods as possible to build spatial resources and a spatial model of a small Queensland town. Some of the anticipated outcomes include: 3D building models derived from laser scanner survey, GIS network models of town utilities such as water mains and road networks, Location of Permanent Survey Marks & observation of networks, GNSS capture of important features, including culturally important items, Google earth fly through and layers, Satellite imagery & aerial photography products, and GIS generated mapping products, including attributing & photographs. The project will run onsite over a weekend, with time allocated for data development after the site component has been completed. The aims: There are 4 main aims for this project: 1.Work with a regional council & town to develop spatial resources that can be used for personal purposes, 2.Improve the understanding of spatial professions and technologies within the community, 3.Provide an opportunity for spatial professionals to develop new skills and use new technologies, 4.Provide an opportunity for spatial companies to demonstrate their products to an audience of spatial professionals and the community. 5.Help promote the spatial industry within Universities and regional areas The place: At this stage, the Town of Bell in the Western Downs Regional Council (WDRC) area has been identified as the preferred location. The players: The key players in the MapMyTown project are: The SSSI Queensland Young Professionals – They will be responsible for the project development, management and organisation for the entire project. This includes confirming a location, engaging sponsors, involving the local council & marketing the project to spatial professionals. Western Downs Regional Council – The council will be involved as much as they wish. Any spatial products developed as an outcome of this project will be provided to council. The town community – The town community, and progress society will be a key player in this project, as their support is paramount to a successful outcome. It is envisaged that the project will also provide some level of spatial training to interested parties. The spatial professionals – This group will be responsible for the majority of the spatial information and products developed through this project. It is envisaged that this group will consist of three major streams, the teachers, the students and the professionals: The teachers will be those spatial professionals who are willing to teach other spatial professionals about how to use specific technologies or methods and techniques. The students are those spatial professionals who are wishing to learn about specific technologies, or methods and techniques. The professionals are those people who want to participate, but just wish to collect spatial information for the project. It must be emphasised that an individual could participate in all 3 streams over the course of the project, depending on their preferences. The sponsors: Sponsors will be a critical component in the provision of new technologies and infrastructure required to complete this project. Spatial Industry companies have previously been very generous with their support of the spatial industry, and we hope that this project will give them the opportunity to showcase their products to a broad section of spatial professionals as well as the community. Some of the sponsorship opportunities we are hoping to secure are: Technology – laser scanners, total stations, GNSS technology, mobile mapping, imagery: you name it we can use it for this project! It’s a great opportunity to showcase both your latest and greatest, as well as those historical technologies. Financial – Obviously this kind of project requires a fair amount of organisation, and we’re hoping for some financial support to make the job of administration, marketing & outcomes easier. For more information: If you would like to be involved with the MapMyTown project as a participant, sponsor or just have general questions or comments, please contact the SSSIQ YPs Chair, Chris McAlister @ madamefishfigh...@rocketmail.com or on 0407668512 On 15 July 2010 10:19, David Dean <dd...@ieee.org> wrote: > Hi talk-au, > > I've gotten an interesting request from Chris McAlister and Alex > Webster for OSM to get involved in a MapMyTown event at Bell, Qld. It > would tentatively be scheduled for 31 October. > > I will be collaborating with Chris and Alex in getting OSM involved in > this event, and having access to the data afterwards. If anyone else > is interested, please let us know. > > I've attached a brief overview of the event to this email, but if > talk-au doesn't work with attachments let me know and I'll send the > text in a future email. > > - David > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: David Dean <dd...@ieee.org> > Date: 13 July 2010 10:06 > Subject: Re: OSM Mapping Party - Bell 31 Oct? > To: Chris McAlister <madamefishfigh...@rocketmail.com> > Cc: Alex Webster <alexander.webs...@gmail.com> > > > Chris, Alex, > > Answering Alex's first question, the next OSM meetup will be at Grange > library on Monday 16th August. Details of all past and future events > are available at > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Category:Brisbane_Mapping_Party. > > I think that the local OSM community would be very interested in > taking part in the MapMyTown event. It looks like a few local mappers > (mostly cybercrypt and Roscoe - see http://imgur.com/ivJMd.png) have > already gotten most of the streets in the town: > http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=-26.93368&lon=151.45209&zoom=16&layers=B000FTF, > but I'm sure there's still plenty of detail left for inclusion in > http://osm.org. We would also be very interested in using the final > surveys from your project to improve the data in OSM, assuming that > the data will be made available under a suitable license. > > We do have a mapping meetup at the Grange library (see > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Category:Brisbane_Mapping_Party) > planned for October 18th, but I'm sure we can get interested OSMers to > both events. Please keep me in the loop and let me know if you need > any help organising the event. > > With your permission, I'd like to forward this email to a interested > people in the local OSM community to get feedback from a wider > audience. > > Thanks for the email, and happy mapping, > > - David Dean > > On 12 July 2010 21:44, Alex Webster <alexander.webs...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi David, >> >> Won't be able to make the Mapping party this weekend but keen to know when >> the next one is. Attached is a brief for a project the SSSI YP Committee >> doing this year. The tentative date is set for 31 October. It would be good >> to know if you would like to be part of the project and involve the OSM >> initiate/Mapping party as an activity of the project. >> >> If you are interested, could you please reply back to Chris (cc:). >> >> Cheers, >> >> Alex >> > -- David Dean Post-Doctoral Fellow, RP-SAIVT, QUT (me) http://www.davidbdean.com (saivt) http://www.bee.qut.edu.au/projects/saivt/ (post) Room S1101, GPO Box 2434, Brisbane, Australia 4001 (p) +61 7 3138 1414 (m) 0407 151 912 (CRICOS) 00213J _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
