LINZ – The Officials Committee on Geospacial Information (OCGI).
The New Zealand Government Officials Committee on Geospatial Information (OCGI) is an ad-hoc forum that identifies needs for geospatial data (electronic mapping data). It advises Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) on their joint needs and comments on LINZ proposed work priorities. It has more than 20 representatives of central government organisations and includes representatives from local government and Ambulance providers. OCGI is a voluntary organisation without independent funding.
Members of OCGI and Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) supported and partially funded the development of COLABII by Mike Pownall of Lucid Consulting in 2002 and 2003. COLABII is an acronym for Co-ordinated Location-and-Area-Based Information for Interoperability. The COLABII framework is shown below. It is a way of identifying and describing, at an overview level, the elements of the geospatial data environment that are essential for the New Zealand government, and how they interact. One result of the work was a report on how New Zealand should develop its National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI). This latter work has been input into a NSDI strategy currently being developed by LINZ.
Download the COLABII overview (PowerPoint 72KB)
Download the COLABII Final Report (PowerPoint 952KB)
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