I was just watching an ABC Landline program about the 150th anniversary of rabbits being introduced (disastrously) to Australia while eating lunch, and spotted a fellow former postgrad and friend from the Zoology Department at the University of Adelaide (Greg Mutze) amongst those attending a filmed briefing. It got me interested, so I visited the RabbitScan website. It turns out to be a project that involves crowd sourcing of spatial information about the distribution of rabbits - with a view to reducing it. There's no web map to view the distribution that I could find, but I hope that will one day be there.
In the meantime I wish all involved with the project every success, and a Happy Easter!
Update: I just received an e-Newsletter from Spatial Vision and was pleased to see that they are providing web mapping to this project using Google Maps as the underlying technology.
About Me
- Graeme Browning
- Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
- I started writing the PolyGeo blog with support from my employer, NGIS Australia, about 22 years after first encountering GIS software while working with the South Australian Museum. In between, my career has included working for the South Australian Department of Environment and Planning (Australia's first ESRI user site) and 18 years with ESRI International Distributors (UK and Australia). I hope that the perspective I bring, of someone who has seen GIS evolve over nearly a quarter of a century after formal education in Systematic Zoology at the University of Adelaide, is one that that will enable PolyGeo to find its niche in the Geospatial blogosphere. While developer topics will occasionally be discussed, PolyGeo is primarily a blog intended for prospective users of the many GIS products, both COTS and Open Source, that are encountered by the Australian spatial community. Deciding which spatial product(s) can best meet business and technical requirements can be a bewildering exercise.
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1 comments:
Good pick-up Graeme. A great example of web 2.0 (crowd sourcing)meets GIS.
Another interesting detail is that the SV project manager on this job is our ex colleague: Gemma Bailey
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