Program 3 will deliver the research to support the creation of a fully functional spatial marketplace. The marketplace will facilitate discovery and access to a broad range of spatial information products and services from a variety of sources (from government owned to volunteered geographic information). The marketplace will also deal with issues of privacy, cost, data aggregation, maintenance, accuracy and licensing.
One of the key technology enablers for such a marketplace is the capability to maintain automated, flexible, and distributed end-to-end spatial data supply chain management. This will allow providers to publish and market a wide range of data products, enabling “frictionless” user-access.
There are many spatial infrastructure and data supply initiatives currently underway in Australia and New Zealand. But there is little coordination or understanding of what has already been built. This results in wasted effort and investment, as well as missed opportunities to define a world-leading research agenda.
The Spatial Infrastructures Alignment Study is addressing this gap in understanding. Phase 1 has reviewed 34 SDI initiatives in Australia and New Zealand. Download the phase 1 report.