Department of health And Aging
It is difficult and time consuming to access very basic location data for a wide variety of Commonwealth managed, owned, funded or leased facilities within the State of Victoria. The ability to access this data through our own systems is critical for emergency services. However, we often require custodians in Australian Government. To date, these requests have proved an extremely frustrating exercise. Australian ...more »
It is difficult and time consuming to access very basic location data for a wide variety of Commonwealth managed, owned, funded or leased facilities within the State of Victoria. The ability to access this data through our own systems is critical for emergency services. However, we often require custodians in Australian Government.
To date, these requests have proved an extremely frustrating exercise.
Australian Government agencies and Departments please find a way make it easier for emergency services within jurisdictions, by establishing clear responsibilities and become good data custodians. Open up access, publishing national geocoded data sets, up to date, in open formats, with validated (PSMA G-Naf) addresses of names and addresses and geocodes for all aged care facilities run by Commonwealth.
Push the data out, rather than make us try and drag it out of you, and establish clear area sof responsibility.
As an example, for the Department of health and Aging
1. Provide up to date spatial data for community, health and aged care facilities, assuring authortitaive single source, currency, completeness, accuracy.
2. Apply fundamental principals of data custodianship, providing data as national data-sets to a required standard by a single authoritative source within Department.
3. Improve education internally across all Governmnet Departments, particulary among Managers, to teach principles of data access and sharing.
4. Support spatial information quality, standards and recognize it's critical importance to meeting current and rapidly emerging needs for collaborative and multi-sector activities.
5. Clarify at whole of government policy level the release of data for emergency services based on reasonable public expectiations, rather than adopting the default postion of treating it as protected information, for example with reference to Part 6.2 of the Aged Care Act 1997.
6. Evaluate and calrify intent of all legislation with regards to balancing requiremenst for emergency services and a common sense solution, before something tragic happens.
Without this support the energency services and other critical users may not have access to all of the important data, particularly features, facilities, points of interest etc.
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