PSMA Australia’s Information Platform - LYNX Facilitating collaboration and enabling spatial capability

1. PSMA Australia’s Information Platform - LYNX Facilitating collaboration and enabling spatial capability Presented by: Dan Paull CEO PSMA Australia Limited

2. The Power of Location: Long Recognised • John Snow demonstrated the utility of mapping disease outbreaks to gain insights as to their cause. • Snow, an anaesthesiologist, mapped the distribution of cholera cases in Soho, London during an epidemic. • He discovered that the highest density of cases occurred in households which used the public pump on Broad Street as their water source.

3. PSMA Australia PSMA Australia Limited is an unlisted public company, established under the Corporations Act (2001), wholly owned by the State, Territory and Australian Governments. To ensure that the substantial value inherently held within national spatial datasets can be readily accessed so as to deliver economic, social and environmental benefits to Australia. By forming and managing a crucial supply chain between creators of fundamental spatial information and users of this information by aggregating, integrating and distributing national spatial datasets. What Why How

4. Vision “To be recognised nationally and internationally as providing the authoritative foundations for enabling and shaping location based business solutions.” “The return of social, environmental and economic benefits through the provision of authoritative national location information, knowledge and services.” Mission

5. Reference Datasets • CadLite • Over 10.5 mil polygons representing the registered land parcels in Australia updated quarterly with incremental updates available. • Every parcel contains the legal parcel identifier that acts as a key to access richly attributed jurisdictional Digital Cadastral Data Bases (DCDB). • Also contains links to key administrative data layers including Local Government Area and Locality. • A property version of the dataset is also available. • G-NAF • G-NAF contains over 12.5 million physical addresses and approximately 2.5 million aliases updated quarterly • Data is sourced from AEC, Australia Post and Government Mapping Agencies and Land Registries • Every address contains a Geocode (Latitude & Longitude) and metadata to assist in decision making • Sophisticated data modelling to enhance application accuracy • Transport & Topography • Over 1,000,000 kms of named road centrelines in a structured hierarchy maintained quarterly. • National rail network including tram lines. • Airports and Landing Grounds. • National Drainage network consisting of Major and Minor water layers and polygon water bodies.

6. Reference Datasets • Postcode Boundaries • This definitive dataset has been developed by Australia Post and PSMA Australia and is updated quarterly • Includes two layers: • Boundaries – polygon data • Centroid – point data • Administrative Boundaries • This dataset contains all of Australia’s major administrative boundaries including: • Key ABS Statistical Geography • Mesh Blocks • Collector districts • Statistical local areas • Urban centre localities • State Boundaries • Electoral Boundaries • Commonwealth; and • State and Territory • Local Government Areas • Suburbs/localities • Town points • Points of Interest • Over 200,000 Points of Interest including: • Police Stations • Hospitals • Post Offices • Museums • Churches • Airports • Banks • Swimming pools • Libraries • Theatres • Shopping Centres

7. How PSMA Australia Adds Value…. Data Custodians Solution Providers Governments of Australia PSMA Australia

8. How PSMA Australia Adds Value…. Data Custodians Solution Providers This model provides an extremely powerful mechanism for coordination and assembly of fundamental national datasets Governments of Australia PSMA Australia To date the model has focused on the establishment and management of the strong relationships within this network

9. PSMA Supply Chain: Complexity is driving automation Reduced time between updates Individual Customised Extraction Profiles Seamless Connectivity to Custodians Clearer Licensing & Pricing Automated Workflow Through Services Orchestration Improved Quality Assurance, Richer Metadata Greater Diversity of Custodians Focused & Proactive support of our Channel Partners

10. The LYNX Conceptual Components • PSMA Australia’s business is all about building and managing: • Relationships and access arrangements with disparate data custodians; • The business processes and workflows to enable the development and maintenance of the national reference datasets; and • Enabling access and the extraction of value from the information that we maintain. • Consequently, LYNX consists of three major conceptual components: • A collection of web services and workflow management tools to automate business processes; • A network connecting together each of the data custodians in each Government; • A standards-compliant, harmonised, extensible and highly normalised data model.

11. A collection of web services and workflow management tools to automate business processes

12. A network connecting together each of the data custodians in each Government NSW TAS VIC ACT SA NT WA QLD Commonwealth

13. CadLite Transport & Topography Other Spatially Related Data G-NAF Admin Boundaries • A standards-compliant harmonised, extensible and highly normalised data model Integrated Data Model

14. LYNX Business Model • Services Orientated Architecture enables LYNX to automate business processes by acquiring or building specific services and then chaining them together. • The services can be reused many times, in different processes and delivers both flexibility and robustness in a dynamic environment. • The network enables: • Access to Contributor Data holdings by PSMA Australia with a feedback loop that enables continual data improvement; • Access to web services for use by members of the LYNX network in their own applications and business processes; and • A market place where third party web services are available for use by all members of the network.

15. LYNX Benefits and Outcomes • Leadership of a world class Spatial Data Infrastructure and spatial services network within an architecture model that encourages participation through the delivery of mutual business benefits • Collaboration is achieved by implementing an infrastructure where access to data can be exchanged for access to services within a distributed SOA architecture connecting all Governments; • Delivery of consistent services across Whole of Government and across governments (eg National Address Management Framework); • Promotion of a modern framework that enables public private partnership growth • Cost effective platform for transfer of data between Governments – potential for the infrastructure to support the efficient assembly of other critical national datasets.

16. Implementation • The LYNX2 Infrastructure is being rolled out in a series of stages. • The current stage involves leveraging off existing infrastructure to provide services to several Jurisdictions. • The aim of this stage is to prove some of the technology and architecture and to demonstrate some of the benefits associated with LYNX. • This capability is currently being delivered to Tasmania, Western Australia and New South Wales in pilot environments. • In addition there are also trials being contemplated by GA, DHS, FaHCSIA and CSIRO on behalf of BOM.

17. Questions Answers Dan Paull Chief Executive Officer John Saldin LYNX Business Manager Michael Dixon Senior Project Manager Gerry Stanley Strategic Relationship & Contract Manager For more information… Contact PSMA Australia; By phone: + 61 2 6295 7033 By e-mail: enquiries@psma.com.au Or visit our web resources at: www.psma.com.au