Geographic Points

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Geographic Points Of Interest (GPOI)
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What is a POI?

• A Point of Interest (POI) is any feature or
  service that people wish to visit or know the
  location of, and is of value to the community
  particularly with respect to wayfinding, vehicle
  routing or dispatch.
• A POI must contain - Name
• - Location
• - Address

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Application of POIs how are they used

• Mapping Products SSD, Tourist Maps, Atlases
• Emergency Dispatch
• GIS ie Property reports, insurance
• Asset Management
• Location-based services
• Navigation/vehicle routing Services

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Duplicate POI Maintenance

• DEC National Parks Recreation facilities
• DME Mines
• MRWA Distance Markers
• LGA Community Services, parks
• DOW water points, bores, wells and tanks
• WAPOL Community Services / Businesses
• FESA - Community Services
• Landgate All of the above.

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WALIS Points of Interest Working Group

• 1st meeting held in November
• Meeting identified the following needs
• An agreed definition of POI
• A vision statement
• A strategy for state-wide POI data management
  and dissemination
• Understanding agency business needs and
  associated POI characteristics (attributes)
• Need for suitable funding model/s to build the
  fundamental land information data source

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Data Model Feature Classes(must be extensible)

• Hospitality
• Education
• Health
• Recreation
• Community Service
• Transport
• Commercial
• Defence
• Mining and Industry
• Geographic

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Maintenance Approaches

• Crowdsourcing
• Data Hosting and Direct Editing
• Staging Area

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Geographic Points Of Interest (GPOI)