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[Bruce Bannerman]

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From: Ross Charles Johnson <rossgo at hotmail.com>
To: foss4g2009 at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: [Foss4g2009] open source software news
Date: Sat, 30 May 2009 07:08:11 +1000

 
SOURCE: SPATIAL BUSINESS NEWS NO 355 (Vol 15, Issue 11) 29 May 2009 
Bushfire Mapping Award

Atherton Tablelands GIS has been highly commended for its Northern
Queensland Bushfire Mitigation project at the Excellence in e-Government
Awards.

The awards were presented at the CeBIT Australia event in Sydney (12-14
May).
The project comprises a collaborative online data warehouse and mapping
tools for organisations involved in dealing with bushfires. The tools
are provided free to the Queensland Fire and Rescue Service and other
fire mitigation stakeholders, including the Department of Environment
and Resource Management and local councils across the region.

GIS co-ordinator Alistair Hart believes the project is the first
Australian emergency management application to use free and open source
software.
Atherton Tablelands GIS is the mapping unit of the Tablelands Regional
Council.
For more information, contact Alistair Hart <alistairh at trc.qld.gov.au>
or +61-7-4091-8605.

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