Collaborative 100K mapping pilot for emergency management / Geoscience Australia.

Highly Commended: Pre-disaster Category, National Significance, Safer Communities Awards 2005.

Includes bibliography (p. 10).

The ?100K pilot? project was developed by GA in response to concerns of emergency managers on the lack of updated and suitable topographic information for use in emergency planning and response. There was particular concern about inconsistencies in mapping between national and state mapping agencies and a lack of updated topographic mapping in priority areas. The project aimed to complete new mapping in key areas, identify priority themes to emergency managers, develop collaborative arrangements with state mapping agencies to maximise production efficiencies, and provide a basis to secure long-term funding to maintain emergency management critical themes. GA specifically contributed $1.1 million to the 12 month pilot. The ?100K pilot? project has delivered large-scale mapping over priority areas such as Karijini National Park in WA, the Gold Coast hinterland in Queensland, Barrington Tops in NSW, the Benalla-Mansfield-Seymour area in Victoria, and the ACT. The project has also demonstrated how mapping agencies in states and at the federal level can work collaboratively to deliver up-to-date topographic information more efficiently and effectively. In addition the project has shown how improved consultation with emergency managers - a key topographic mapping client in all jurisdictions - can deliver more focused and relevant data sets to emergency managers to address concerns about the appropriateness of topographic information and lack of data in priority areas along the urban-rural fringe.