An online system providing councils with access to a historical image resource of bird’s eye view images of areas right across the country has just been launched.
RetroLens.nz is a historical image resource which holds hundreds of thousands of aerial images taken between 1936 and 2005.
The project was developed by the Local...
A greater emphasis on analysis and modelling is on the cards as councils dig deep into spatial technologies. So too, are more shared services, technologies and standards, as councils team up to meet ratepayers’ increasing expectations. By Mary Searle Bell.
Local authorities face both huge challenges and opportunities as the demand for...
A group of local government geospatial experts is building a national dataset of our country’s walking and cycling tracks. Gill Lawrence explains what they’ve achieved so far and what they’ve learnt along the way.
“We want your tracks data!” was the cry that went out into geospatial inboxes up and down the country. A group of...
