Wildlife Licensing
As part of our ongoing work with the Department of Parks and Wildlife, we’ve been recently involved in the redevelopment... Continue reading →
Under GRID’s hood
Our GRID product – the online, easy to use GIS for the Natural Resources Management (NRM) community – continues to... Continue reading →
Expanding the Atlas to Victoria
Late last year Tracey and I headed to Victoria as the last part of an intensive project to get the... Continue reading →
Smaller Archives, Technology and Forever.
Last week I presented to the Victorian Branch of the Australian Society of Archivists about the work that Gaia Resources does... Continue reading →
Supporting the Night Parrot
A while back we had a call from the Night Parrot Recovery Team (led by Allan Burbidge) asking if we... Continue reading →
Data management for NRMs – a bugbear resolved
Along with the South West Catchments Council we were successful in receiving funding from the State Natural Resource Management Community... Continue reading →
Using QGIS for environmental restoration
One of the earliest projects we did using the Quantum GIS open source package was with Tranen Revegetation Systems, and... Continue reading →
More welcomes!
Piers’ note: Two things happened at the end of last year – we hired Chris and shamed Shay into finally writing... Continue reading →
2016 wrapped up
2016 has been, in a word, “challenging”. The economy that we are operating in within Australia has been quite volatile... Continue reading →
Maratus Man visits WA
Gaia Resources recently sponsored the visit to WA of Stuart Harris, citizen scientist extraordinaire and peacock-spider whisperer! On Monday 5th... Continue reading →
NACC and GRID
We have recently implemented another instance of our Geographic & Reporting Information Database (GRID) product – this time for the... Continue reading →
Dolphin Watch Day 2016
On a cool Monday night, Tracey and I went down to the Royal Perth Yacht club to join about 100... Continue reading →
Citizen Science at SWCC 2016
Last week Alex and Tracey were in Margaret River running a #citizenscience session at the South West Catchment Council (SWCC)... Continue reading →
The State of GRID
Along with the South West Catchments Council, we were successful in receiving a grant from the State Natural Resource Management Community... Continue reading →
The Disadvantages of Open Source
(Yes, this is a clickbait title) I heard a phrase recently which was really upsetting: “What are the disadvantages of... Continue reading →
Spatial Transformations
I was back to Sydney again last week for the Co-operative Research Centre for Spatial Information (CRCSI) conference, with the... Continue reading →
Down the Rabbit Hole with Archives
“But I don’t want to go among mad people,” Alice remarked. “Oh, you can’t help that,” said the Cat: “we’re... Continue reading →
Spring back to QGIS
Spring has brought some eager QGIS trainees to the fore, with two training courses run in as many months at... Continue reading →
Collecting Tasmania – an introduction
Gaia Resources was recently successful in a tender to work with the state of Tasmania in producing a web pilot... Continue reading →
Geo-referencing Archives with QGIS
A while back we posted about how we’d taken some town planning maps from the State Records Office of WA... Continue reading →