PSMA Australia’s Information Platform - LYNX Facilitating collaboration and enabling spatial capability Presented by:
Dan PaullCEO PSMA Australia Limited
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.
The Power of Location: Long Recognised
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
Vision“To be recognised
nationally and internationally as providing
the authoritative foundations for enabling
and shaping location based business solutions.”
Mission
“The return of social, environmental and
economic benefits through the provision of
authoritative national location information,
knowledge and services.”
Reference Datasets
Transport & TopographyOver 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.
CadLiteOver 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-NAFG-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
Reference Datasets
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
Postcode Boundaries
This definitive dataset has been developed by Australia Post and PSMA Australia and is updated quarterlyIncludes 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; andState and Territory
• Local Government Areas• Suburbs/localities• Town points
How PSMA Australia Adds Value….
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This model provides an extremely powerful mechanism for coordination and assembly of fundamental national
datasets
To date the model has focused on the establishment and management of the
strong relationships within this network
PSMA Supply Chain: Complexity is driving automation
Collect
Standardise
Integrate
Extract
Deliver
Individual Customised Extraction
Profiles
Seamless Connectivity
to Custodians
Automated Workflow Through
Services Orchestration
Focused & Proactive support of our
Channel Partners
Reduced time between updates
Improved Quality Assurance, Richer
Metadata
Clearer Licensing &
Pricing
Greater Diversity of Custodians
The LYNX Conceptual Components
PSMA Australia’s business is all about building and managing:1. Relationships and access arrangements with disparate data
custodians; 2. The business processes and workflows to enable the
development and maintenance of the national reference datasets; and
3. Enabling access and the extraction of value from the information that we maintain.
Consequently, LYNX consists of three major conceptual components:1. A collection of web services and workflow management tools to
automate business processes; 2. A network connecting together each of the data custodians in
each Government;3. A standards-compliant, harmonised, extensible and highly
normalised data model.
1. A collection of web services and workflow management tools to automate business processes
2. A network connecting together each of the data custodians in each Government
VIC
SA
QLD
NT
ACT
NSW
WA
TAS
Commonwealth
Transport & Topography
Admin Boundaries G-NAF CadLite
Other Spatially Related Data
3. A standards-compliant harmonised, extensible and highly normalised data model
Integrated Data Model
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:
1. Access to Contributor Data holdings by PSMA Australia with a feedback loop that enables continual data improvement;
2. Access to web services for use by members of the LYNX network in their own applications and business processes; and
3. A market place where third party web services are available for use by all members of the network.
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.
LYNX Benefits and Outcomes
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.
Questions
Dan PaullChief Executive Officer
John SaldinLYNX Business Manager
Michael DixonSenior Project Manager
Gerry StanleyStrategic Relationship & Contract Manager
AnswersFor more information…Contact PSMA Australia;
By phone:
+ 61 2 6295 7033
By e-mail:
Or visit our web resources at:
www.psma.com.au
