Western Australian Land Information System
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| Formed | 1981 |
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Perth, Western Australia, Australia 31°53′12″S 116°0′18″E / 31.88667°S 116.00500°E |
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| Website | www.spur.wa.gov.au |
The Western Australian Land Information System (WALIS) was established by the Western Australian (WA) Government in 1981. It is responsible for coordinating the discovery of, and access to, location-based or geographic data generated by WA Government agencies. WALIS achieves this through partnerships between organisations, projects, committees and working groups; coordinated through the WALIS Office at Landgate.
The idea for the WA Land Information System (WALIS) began in the late seventies although WALIS was not established until 1981. Since that time there have been many people involved in WALIS, some restructures and many different plans and strategies.
Central to WALIS management was the Land Information System Advisory Committee, established as a forum to represent the interests of the public and private sector. The main WALIS group was the Land Information System Support Centre (LISSC), composed of technology and skilled personnel.
By 1986, the rapid growth of GIS forced a re-evaluation of the strategies of WALIS. WALIS began to emphasise the establishment of on-line access to data.
In 1987, the WALIS committee structure was rearranged to a three-tier structure. This structure comprised the WALIS Executive Policy Committee (EPC), which was retained from the inception of WALIS, WALIS Council and the WALIS Secretariat.
In October 1988, the EPC formed a WALIS Marketing Taskforce to develop a policy for the marketing of state government information. Coopers & Lybrand WD Scott (C & LWDS) were contracted to research market value of land information in WA.
In June 1990, Cabinet approved a number of recommendations including the elevation of WALIS to full program status within the Department of Land Administration (DOLA) - now known as Landgate. A second recommendation was to make the Minister for Lands the accountable minister. This is how WALIS still stands today.
In November 1994, the WALIS Advisory Committee (WAC) met for the first time. This committee was formed to provide strategic advice to the WALIS Executive Policy Committee on land information management from a community perspective. The WALIS Advisory Committee was disbanded by the Minister for Lands in 2009.
In 2011, a revised governance framework for WALIS was established, focused on implementing the Location Information Strategy for Western Australia approved by the Western Australian State Cabinet in August 2011. The Location Information Strategy in turn supports the Western Australian Whole of Government Open Data Policy, which seeks to better utilise the public sector’s data assets by making them easily discoverable and accessible through the WA Open Data Service at https://data.wa.gov.au/.
In 2017, the WALIS Council continues to remain an important forum for collaboration and information sharing between WA Government agencies on the management of location information, data and technologies.
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