From time to time the SDMG creates working groups to investigate and report on various activities related to the Australian Government Policy on Spatial Data Access and Pricing. Working Groups that are currently active include:

  • Spatial Resources Discovery and Access (Metadata)
  • Registries
  • National Mapping & Data Acquisition
  • Points of Interest
  • Indigenous Communities
  • Preferred Services Implementation Architecture

Issues covered by previous groups include:

  • Australian Spatial Data Directory (ASDD) and Metadata
  • Creative Commons Licensing 
  • Data Licences
  • Data Schedule
  • Data Management Costs
  • Fundamental Data
  • Google Earth
  • Marine Boundaries
  • Policy Review
  • Postcodes
  • Privacy
  • Schedule
  • Socioeconomic Spatial Data
  • Survey
  • User Needs

If you are an Australian Government employee, you may review Working Group activities in the Members' Only section of the OSDM web site.