NEDF Overview

Report to NZ Geospatial Office.

National Elevation Data Framework (NEDF) workshop, 18^th March 2008, AAS, Shine Dome, Canberra, sponsored by the Australian Academy of Science (AAS) and ANZLIC.

Since this is rather a long report compared to typical blog entries, I've split it into 4 posts to make it more manageable.

Contents

NEDF Part 1: The Australian National Elevation Data Framework
NEDF Part 2: Implications for New Zealand
NEDF Part 3: Strawman NZ Elevation Data Framework
NEDF Part 4: Recommendations for a Plan of Action

Acknowledgements

I would like to thank NZGO staff for inviting me and the other NZ participants to attend the NEDF workshop, and thank the other participants for sporadic discussions since then. Where available I have attached their individual reports as appendices. I have also attached an independent otherwise unpublished proposal for KiwiDEM from Paul Hughes at DoC. Having said that any failings, shortcomings or omissions in the report are mine and not theirs. Finally I acknowledge that the PGSF funded SpInfo II research project has funded my time to write this report, which is an additional output beyond the original terms of the contract.