PSMA Australia’s
Information Platform LYNX
Facilitating collaboration and
enabling spatial capability
Presented by:
Dan Paull
CEO PSMA Australia Limited
The Power of Location: Long Recognised
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.
PSMA Australia
What
PSMA Australia Limited is an unlisted public company,
established under the Corporations Act (2001), wholly
owned by the State, Territory and Australian Governments.
Why
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.
How
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.
Vision
“To be recognised
nationally and
internationally as providing
the authoritative
foundations for enabling
and shaping location
based business solutions.”
“The return of social,
environmental and
economic benefits through
the provision of
authoritative national
location information,
knowledge and services.”
Mission
Reference Datasets
Transport & Topography
CadLite
G-NAF
Over 1,000,000 kms of named
road centrelines in a structured
hierarchy maintained
quarterly.
Over 10.5 mil polygons
representing the registered
land parcels in Australia
updated quarterly with
incremental updates available.
G-NAF contains over 12.5 million
physical addresses and
approximately 2.5 million aliases
updated 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.
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.
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
Administrative
Boundaries
This definitive dataset has
been developed by
Australia Post and PSMA
Australia and is updated
quarterly
This dataset contains all of
Australia’s major administrative
boundaries including:
• Key ABS Statistical
Geography
Includes two layers:
• Boundaries – polygon
data
• Centroid – point data
Mesh Blocks
Collector districts
Statistical local areas
Urban centre localities
•
State Boundaries
• Electoral Boundaries
Commonwealth; and
State and Territory
•
Local Government Areas
• Suburbs/localities
• Town points
How PSMA Australia Adds Value….
Governments of Australia
Data Custodians
Solution Providers
PSMA Australia
Collect
Standardise
Integrate
Extract
Deliver
How PSMA Australia Adds Value….
Governments of Australia
Data Custodians
Solution Providers
This model provides an extremely
powerful mechanism for coordination
and assembly of fundamental national
datasets
PSMA Australia
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
Reduced time between updates
Collect
Standardise
Seamless
Connectivity
to Custodians
Greater
Diversity of
Custodians
Automated
Workflow Through
Services
Orchestration
Integrate
Individual
Customised
Extraction
Profiles
Improved Quality
Assurance, Richer
Metadata
Extract
Deliver
Clearer
Licensing &
Pricing
Focused & Proactive
support of our
Channel Partners
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
NSW
TAS
VIC
ACT
SA
NT
WA
QLD
Commonwealth
3. A standards-compliant harmonised, extensible and
highly normalised data model
Integrated Data
Model
Transport &
Topography
Other Spatially
Related Data
Admin
Boundaries
G-NAF
CadLite
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.
LYNX Benefits and Outcomes
 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.
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
Answers
Dan Paull
Chief Executive Officer
For more information…
Contact PSMA Australia;
John Saldin
By phone:
LYNX Business Manager
+ 61 2 6295 7033
Michael Dixon
By e-mail:
Senior Project Manager
enquiries@psma.com.au
Gerry Stanley
Or visit our web resources at:
Strategic Relationship & Contract Manager
www.psma.com.au