The value of Australian State Land Titles Offices is shown again with the $1.6b sale of the SA lands office to Macquarie and a Canada pension fund. On the back of the huge NSW LPI price, all eyes will now be on Victoria as the third lands privatisation domino to fall.
Australia to get new positioning datum
Australia sits on one of the most active tectonic plates on Earth. As such, our current positioning datum is 1.8 metres out from GPS positioning. So in 2017 a new datum is being introduced to correct this. The video below is a good layman’s explanation:
Claims of conflict of interest for private surveyors in Victoria
Reform is supposedly underway, but clearly something needs to happen given the mounting news stories in Melbourne around building disasters.
The start of a new era of Land Information Service delivery for South Australia from Fuji Xerox Document Management Solutions
Fuji Xerox Document Management Solutions, Australia’s largest provider of land information services, has completed a project with the South Australian Government to bring forth a modern land and property administration system that is accessible online.
New centimetre accurate GPS system being developed
Researchers are working on a centimetre accurate GPS system with a small antenna they hope to make even smaller so as to be included in future smart phones. The applications for people working land management in the field are enormous. Definitely something to keep an eye on.
https://news.utexas.edu/2015/05/05/engineers-develop-centimeter-accurate-gps-system