LINZ Accepts Mapping Award Honour in India

16 April 2009

In February this year, LINZ was honoured to accept the award for best national mapping agency at the Map World Forum in Hyderabad, India.

The award recognises LINZ’s contributions as a national mapping agency towards national development and services to citizens of the country at large. General Manager Customer Services, Sharon Cottrell, accepted the award on LINZ’s behalf.

“I felt privileged to be there accepting the award, and to receive international recognition for our products and services,” Sharon says.

The theme of the forum was ‘Geospatial Technology for Sustainable Planet Earth’. As part of the forum’s e-governance symposium, Sharon delivered a presentation on the range of ways LINZ enables geospatial information through electronic channels.

LINZ products and services that Sharon talked about included Landonline, Electronic Navigational Charts, and the upcoming Topo50 map series. Sharon also discussed further opportunities for LINZ, such as having our own and wider-government’s geospatial data assets used and reused.

“We are unique in the way we do things here, and this was evident at the forum,” Sharon says. “It was valuable listening to the other speakers and hearing how they are approaching the opportunities geospatial information has to offer. From my presentation, I received particular interest in Landonline and how it operates, given it is the first of its kind in the world.”

Find out more about the Map World Forum.

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