1. “Everything Happens Somewhere”
LOCATION - A Component of GOV2.0 ?
Ben Searle Empowering Australia
General Manager, OSDM with Spatial Information

2. GOV2.0 – Why Do We Need It ?
Public now expects information and services
from both the commercial sector and
governments:
“anywhere, any time”
This expectation is driving governments to
adopt WEB2.0

3. EVERYTHING HAPPENS SOMEWHERE
Use of Location by Government
• Policy development and evaluation
– Why is ‘it’ occurring in this area?
– What are the contributing factors played by location?
– Why is the policy effective in one location but not
another?
• Service delivery
– Victorian Bushfires – using Post Code to identify clients
• Internal business processes
– An address is a location,
– high costs to government when address are wrong

4. Location as An Enabler
• An estimated 80% of government information can be
linked to a location
• Location can be used as the connection between
information
– How many unemployed in this suburb?
– What employment opportunities exist in this suburb?
– Is there a Centre Link Office in the suburb?
• Australian Government Spatial Data Access and
Pricing Policy
– Over 2000 data sets available at no cost – but potential
for thousands of others.

5. Use of Location - Commercial
• Google Earth
GPS enabled
• Whereis? mobile phone
• FaceBook
• Flickr
• Use of ‘location’ based
technologies in many products.
– In-car Satellite Navigation
– Mobile Phones
– Digital Camera’s
– Precision agriculture

6. Use of Location - Community
Canberra
Community Mapping
‘OpenStreetMap’
http://www.openstreetmap.org/

7. Use of Location - Community
Mapping the
election
conditions in
Zimbabwe
http://www.sokwanele.com/map/all_br
eaches/

8. Use of Location - Community
http://www.missingkidsmap.com/

9. Use of Location - Community
http://labs.davidpclarke.com/flickr/map/

10. Use of Location – Community/Govt
http://blog.fortiusone.com/2009/06/09/creating-the-national-broadband-map-for-35-million-instead-of-350-million/

11. Use of Location – Govt/Community
Victorian Government
Emergency Management
Mapping
http://www.geomatic.com.au/news/0621.aspx

12. ‘Location’ in Australian Govt Today
FaHCSIA Health Education
Outputs Outputs Outputs
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FaHCSIA Specific Health Education
Data Specific Data Specific Data
SPATIAL DATA SPATIAL DATA SPATIAL DATA
Spatial Spatial Data Spatial
Data Sources Sources
FaHCSIA Health Data Sources
Education

13. A WEB2.0 - Location Based Future
Health
Education
FaHCSIA Outputs
Outputs
Outputs
Specific Specific
Specific
Business Business
FaHCSIA Health
Business Education
Specific Data Processes Specific Data Specific Data Processes
Processes
Fundamental Spatial Data Fundamental Spatial Data Fundamental Spatial Data
Common Spatial
FaHCSIA Common Spatial Health Common Spatial Education
Data Sources Data Sources
Data Sources

14. Spatial@Gov Conference
Focus on the use of location based technologies to
support the business of government.
• 350 Delegates, 60 presenters
• Common themes
– Similar issues across all levels of government
– Duplication of effort
– Barriers to access of data
Way Forward
• Web2.0 based technologies
• Sharing capability
• Leverage location component of Govt data.
Build once, used by many…..

15. What’s Missing ?
We have the pieces of the puzzle
But how do we bring them together?
Use a WEB2.o framework ?
The Pieces
A new Framework

16. Office of Spatial Data Management
QUESTIONS?
Ben Searle
General Manager, OSDM
ben.searle@osdm.gov.au www.osdm.gov.au