Past Events
MapChat Cartography in Action
16 September 2020 5:00pm to 6:00pm
2020 AGM and Presentation
19 August 2020 5:40pm to 8:00pm
MapChat - On the Spectrum
26 February 2020 5:30pm
Taking an outdated and overworked web mapping platform into the modern day with SQL Server 2019 and Spectrum Spatial Analyst
Triumphs and Challenges of Mobile Data Collection
11 December 2019 5:30pm
Mobile data collection is here and it's here to stay! Join us at The Bluewater as Gareth Humpheys from WTMA walks us through the challenges and triumphs of setting up a mobile data collection app.
Leveraging 360° Digital Data
11 September 2019 5:30pm
Remotely Sensing Grazing Sustainability
14 August 2019 5:30pm to 7:30pm
Mapchat - 3D from UAV
17 July 2019 5:30pm
MapChat - Mapping for Moggies: Mahogany Glider Habitat Enhancement
12 June 2019 5:30pm to 7:00pm
Join us as we hear from Terrain NRM’s Gary Searle discuss a current project focusing on the critically endangered Mahogany Glider and the mapping techniques and approaches used to help the project team in their decision making.
FunGIS 2019 Conference - Dealing with Data - It's Everywhere
16 May 2019 to 17 May 2019
The 2019 FunGIS Conference, 16-17 May, will feature speakers from across the spatial spectrum. With government, academic, private and not-for-profit organisations all presenting on a wide-range of topics from RTK and drone surveying, drone data processing, virtual reality, remote sensing, crowd sourced GIS and 'big data' management.
MapChat - Digital field data collection on the cheap
6 March 2019 5:30pm
Join FunGIS members at the Bluewater for a talk and review of various field data collection programs and processes, presented by Andrew Mitchell.
World GIS Day MapChat – Yellow Crazy Ants
14 November 2018
Desiree Gowell presents - Mapping Yellow Crazy Eradication - as part of a special MapChat coinciding with World GIS Day.
2018 FunGIS Conference
17 May 2018 to 18 May 2018
Themed Spatial Technologies of the Future to be held at DoubleTree by Hilton in the heart of Cairns on Thursday 17 and Friday 18 May 2018
FunGIS MapChat
18 April 2018
Google Earth and XML - with Andrew Mitchell: many types of spatial data are based on XML, including GoogleEarth data, GPS data and Lidar data.
Final MapChat for 2017
22 November 2017 5:30pm
November MapChat focus: Using GIS software and live tracking to optimise cane harvesting, with Matt Hession (MSF Sugar).
October FunGIS MapChat
18 October 2017 5:30pm
Natural Resource Management: Tools for justifying and prioritising spatial decision making Live demonstration of spatial decision support tools by Gary Searle, Terrain NRM and Cape York NRM
Map Chat
23 August 2017 6:00pm
Photographs are now a primary means of gathering information but are difficult to organise. An Image Information System can organise large photo collections and reveal spatial and temporal patterns.
2017 Spatial Conference in Cairns
29 June 2017 to 30 June 2017
On Thu we will be challenged by the Queensland Police in Disaster Response and Search and Rescue. We'll then learn more about spatial information in the new Queensland Globe, mapping marine debris and 3D modelling -that's just in the morning. In the afternoon we'll look at how UAV's can be used in innovative agriculture and get a quickie on practical drone use. Fri will be focused on getting you trained up, flying and analysing the data that comes out of a semi-professional drone.
FunGIS Mapchat : Precision Agriculture use of IoT
15 March 2017 5:30pm
Precision Agriculture use of IoT. Darryl Lyons from IoTAustralasia will discuss the use of LoRaWAN sensors in agriculture.
November MapChat
30 November 2016 5:30pm to 8:00pm