DEPARTMENT OF

LANDS AND PLANNING

NT Spatial 2011
Spatially Enabling Government
Decision Making, Data Quality and Coverage

Tony Gill, Director Land Information Services

4 February 2011

www.nt.gov.au
Overview
• Role of Land Information Services

• Information needs of decision making

• Current coverage

• Information gaps

• Plan of action

SEG: Generate significant opportunities to deliver integrated services to the community and
an enabling component of joined-up-government

DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND PLANNING

www.nt.gov.au
Land Information Services
• Our role includes;

– Aerial and Satellite imagery acquisition

– Topographic information capture and management

– Mapping services

– Supply of spatial information

– Provision of maps and other land information based products

SEG: Generate significant opportunities to deliver integrated services to the community and
an enabling component of joined-up-government

DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND PLANNING

www.nt.gov.au
Spatially Enabling Government
• Range of activities, not all fully funded, including;
– Establishing location and street addressing services

– Improved coverage, currency and quality of imagery and

mapping

– Provision of satellite-based positioning infrastructure and facilities

– Assistance to agencies to spatially enable their information and

business operations, and

– Provision of a governance framework for the realisation of SEG benefits

SEG: Generate significant opportunities to deliver integrated services to the community and
an enabling component of joined-up-government

DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND PLANNING

www.nt.gov.au
Decision Making Needs
What is Industry saying…

“A picture paints a thousand words, but a map tells the whole story!”
- Maber

“Organisations not using the location element of retained or acquired business

information are missing out on a valuable ingredient when making
decisions”
- Maber

“spatial elements in data are the glue that binds information together”
– HaverKamp

“digital spatial information is a matter of public trust”

- Schell

SEG: Generate significant opportunities to deliver integrated services to the community and
an enabling component of joined-up-government

DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND PLANNING

www.nt.gov.au
Decision Making Needs …
What is Government saying …

“Decisions are based on information and knowledge”

and as a consequence

“information must be easy to access securely, accurate, reliable, timely

and usable”

NTG ICT Strategic Intent 2010-15

SEG: Generate significant opportunities to deliver integrated services to the community and
an enabling component of joined-up-government

DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND PLANNING

www.nt.gov.au
Decision Making Needs …
• Complex issues – e.g. Closing The Gap

– require sound sources of information that span agencies and levels of

government

• spatial is the “glue” that is the enabler

– Key is ensuring prior availability of quality authoritative information

• Risk in policy and operational decisions being made that are not
only flawed and costly, but could put lives at risk.

SEG: Generate significant opportunities to deliver integrated services to the community and
an enabling component of joined-up-government

DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND PLANNING

www.nt.gov.au
Current coverage
• Cadastre

• Road network

• Standardised Statistical Geography

– Regions, Sub-regions, Local Government, Towns, Localities, Placenames

• Imagery
– Major urban/rural areas
– Major Indigenous communities
– 60-70% of smaller communities and homelands

• Topographic information

SEG: Generate significant opportunities to deliver integrated services to the community and
an enabling component of joined-up-government

DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND PLANNING

www.nt.gov.au
Information Gaps
• Mapping and imagery currency

• Rights, restrictions and responsibilities (RRR)

– Not all are recorded
– Multiple registers
– No single point-of-truth or discovery mechanism

• Agency operational boundaries

– Not all captured or available

• Consistency in recording of location

– Standards for recording location across ALL government systems

SEG: Generate significant opportunities to deliver integrated services to the community and
an enabling component of joined-up-government

DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND PLANNING

www.nt.gov.au
Plan of Action
• Partnerships
– Commonwealth, Local Government

• ILIS
– Expand the knowledge of capability of existing NTG information

• Legislation and Regulation Audit

– Identify spatial or location references/requirements

• Spatial Information Management and Coordination Act?

– Effective recording of location in business systems
– Capture and availability of this information

SEG: Generate significant opportunities to deliver integrated services to the community and
an enabling component of joined-up-government

DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND PLANNING

www.nt.gov.au
 Thank you - Questions?

SEG: Generate significant opportunities to deliver integrated services to the community and
an enabling component of joined-up-government

DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND PLANNING

www.nt.gov.au