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PSMA Australia is formulating its GDA2020 transition plan.

Our latest quarterly update reinforces our reputation as Australia’s most trusted source of geospatial data products.

Tracking addressable objects has become easier with the introduction of a new Address Feature table

Our very own CEO Dan Paull, has received the prestigious 2017 Asia Pacific Spatial Professional of the Year Award.

We have big plans and need more people who are skilled at creating the connections required to enable the efficient flow of data through the data economy, so we’re actively recruiting.

The Addresses API verifies an address and returns information about it.

Easily integrate authoritative address verification into web applications with our Predictive Address Verification API, which now includes optional filtering by Australian state or territory.

Query an address, find the buildings located there and obtain data about their attributes.

We want a community of developers to put our location data APIs to the test. Register now to participate in our Beta Program. Get early access to what we’re working on and experiment with our newest APIs for FREE.

This week’s Release 4 of Geoscape® saw the inclusion, for the first time, of buildings data for Brisbane, Gold Coast, Wollongong and Hobart.

Australian national address search and verification is now available via an API from PSMA.

Geospatial APIs make accessing spatial data a low risk commitment, with a potential high return on investment.

Last week, I attended the Cambridge Conference 2017 hosted by @OrdnanceSurvey and held, paradoxically, for the first time at the University of Oxford.

To speak a common language: Spatial data industry developing new vocabularies

With the back drop of Locate17 in Sydney, PSMA Australia has today officially launched Geoscape and released the highly-anticipated Sydney dataset.

Geoscape is a world-first for whole of continent data collection of this quality and scope.

An in-depth look at PSMA Australia's operations and performance over the 2015-16 financial year.

PSMA CEO Dan Paull outlines ambitious Geoscape project to record what exists at every address in Australia.

Geoscape wins the Business Services Category at the ACT iAwards

In this Smart Cities feature, Intergeo TV interviews Dan Paull about PSMA's decision to build Geoscape.

Overview of PSMA's May data release including updates about GNAF and other news from PSMA Australia.

Evaluation data from our Adelaide capture phase is now available for download.

Geoscape receives Geospatial World Excellence Award

Our collaboration with a relatively small number of partners allows us share our data expertise with those organisations and enables them to multiply the impact our data has on the broader economy through their own distinctive commercial activities.

[email protected] Hackfest 2016 was proudly supported by PSMA

spatialsource.com.au covers the development of Geoscape

Come along to CeBIT and test out the data we collected about Adelaide's built environment.

With a helping hand from OMNILINK and PSMA Cloud, Queensland University of Technology has geocoded thousands of student addresses.

Using custom venue maps from HERE, Deakin University in Victoria, Australia has launched an app to help students navigate their way around the university. Now, students searching for the location of a lecture or exam can turn to the Campus Compass app, and ensure that they don’t miss a thing.

To meet the ATO’s data quality objectives Experian developed and implemented an integrated solution that provided the most efficient means of returning a full and valid address, email and mobile contact data in real time.

Overview of the February data release and forthcoming events.

It's here! The much anticipated open release of G-NAF and Administrative Boundaries by the Australian Government has landed.

Interview with Hugh Saalmans, Location Science Manager at IAG. Hugh or @minus34 is an open data advocate and an expert user of GNAF and Administrative Boundaries. In this interview, he provides some background and advice for getting started with these datasets.

PSMA's value-added reseller, Pitney Bowes, announces its premium geocoding solutions for businesses in Australia

One thing that we can be certain of is that addresses are created and changed – a lot. This is why the process of maintaining G-NAF is an ongoing and iterative process that provides considerable value to the user. PSMA is continually testing incoming data to deliver a G-NAF in which users can have confidence.

The much anticipated National Innovation and Science Agenda includes making G-NAF and Administrative Boundaries openly available in February 2016.

Dan Paull launches the AIIA's Geospatial Special Interest Group's paper at the Canberra Managers Forum, 1 December 2015.

The fifth edition of Deloitte's Building the Lucky Country series reconsiders the purpose of place. By collaborating to make place a driver of productivity and prosperity, Australia can unlock enormous potential.

Providing seamless digital government services within Australia's federal structure will require the support of coordinated national information infrastructure.

A message from our chairman, Glenn Appleyard

PSMA Australia’s goal is to facilitate broad and sustainable access to high-quality location data.

PSMA is a self-funded public company limited by shares

Addresses are a cultural artefact, created from language rather than rules and legislation

The introduction of self-driving cars will transform the cities of the future, including how we map them.

The 193 member states of the United Nations adopted the new Sustainable Development Agenda in September 2015. Geographic information will play a key role in supporting the achievement of a sustainable future.

Adding location into the big data mix can help unlock powerful insights.

To deliver the benefits being sought by open data initiatives, we encourage a deeper discussion around the outcomes needed to support and promote the digital economy.

PSMA Australia has signed a letter of intent mapping out steps for closer cooperation with EuroGeographics, the Development Bank of Latin America and the Pan-American Institute for Geography and History (PAIGH).

In this AIIA video interview, Dan Paull discusses PSMA Australia's role in supporting digital infrastructure for Australia.

2014 marks the first decade of Australia’s Geocoded National Address File (G-NAF) – a time during which this new benchmark for geocoded address accuracy has become widely accepted.

2014 marks the first decade of Australia's Geocoded National Address File (G-NAF) - a time during which this new benchmark for geocoded address accuracy has become widely accepted.

An international award has been won by a geospatial information technology project developed by PSMA Australia.

Published in Position Magazine, August-September Edition 2012

Presented by Dan Paull, Chief Executive Officer, PSMA Australia at GITA 2012 Conference

Presented by Michael Dixon, Group Manager Products and Services, PSMA Australia at GITA 2012 Conference

Presented by Dan Paull, Chief Executive Officer, PSMA Australia, Australian & New Zealand Disaster and Emergency Management Conference, 2012

Presented by Dan Paull, CEO, PSMA Australia, GSDI13 Global Geospatial Conference 2012

The Australian Bureau of Statistics used G-NAF to support the planning for conduct of the 2011 Census.

A web mapping solution developed by PSMA Australia has won a major mapping industry award.

Dave Lovell, Executive Director, EuroGeographics and Dan Paull, Chief Executive Officer, PSMA Australia, presentation at 7th International Symposium on Digital Earth, 2011

NBN Co will use Australia’s geocoded national address file, G-NAF, for address information to support the planning, roll-out and operation of the national broadband network.