Surveying & Spatial Sciences Institute

DENR Map Production Update #1 (20/09/2010)

As part of the Regional Sustaining Partner Program, SSSI SA is providing interesting updates of our partners program of works or interesting projects. This month Department of Environment & Natural Resources has provide an update of their Map Products.Emergency Services Map Book SeriesA new Riverland & Murray Mallee Emergency Services map book will be available by the end of September. This map book supersedes the 2001 CFS Map Book of the same name. The map books provide detailed information about the region including topography, roads and tracks, buildings and many other f...

29 May, 2011

GIS now at Golden Grove High School (05/07/2010)

GIS desktop software now at Golden Grove High School In late March, David McDonald, Spatial Manager and Associate at Tonkin Consulting, along with Ross Johnson, of the Geography Teachers’ Association, and Miriam Smith, the Mayor of Tea Tree Gully Council, all visited Golden Grove High School. The purpose of that visit was for David McDonald, on behalf of Tonkin Consulting and MapInfo, to present Golden Grove’s principal, Mal Kemp, with a complimentary copy of MapInfo version 10.0 to upgrade the school’s GIS software.With around 150 Year 9 and 10 students on hand to w...

29 May, 2011

Certified or Certifiable? (04/03/2010)

Over the coming year, this section will feature interviews with GIS Professionals, from across Australia, gathering their thoughts on the industry, and professional certification. David Floreani (SA) David is a Senior GIS Consultant for global engineering and environmental consulting company Parsons Brinckerhoff’s (PB) Geospatial Team. He has been working in the GIS industry for over eight years, since graduating with first class Honours in Geography and a Graduate Diploma in Spatial Information Science from the University of Adelaide. At PB, David specialises in providing GIS ...

29 May, 2011

Tonkin Consulting � 2009 Award-Winning Team

November 22, 2009 Award Winning Fleurieu Peninsula Tourism Project At the 2009 SA Spatial Excellence Awards, Tonkin Consulting won the “People and Community” award for a recent project for Fleurieu Peninsula Tourism.As part of the implementation of the Fleurieu Peninsula Region Integrated Strategic Tourism Plan 2007-2012, we were awarded the project to create a series of maps to visualise places of relevance to the tourism industry. Collation of data from various sources was required to create a regional perspective of the area.Anita Dittmar - Tonkin...