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This article was originally published on 29 Mar 2019 by The Data WA Team

Landgate’s Basemap service has recently been refreshed with updates from the whole-of-state topographic geodatabase.

The Basemap will continue to be updated on a quarterly basis to ensure a common view of the state for government and industry. It’s accessible as a supplementary SLIP subscription service (wmts and Esri map service), through Landinfo WA and Landgate’s MapViewer Plus.

This article was originally published on 11 Mar 2019 by The Data WA Team

The DataWA team have been working hard on several enhancements to make it easier for customers and data publishers to access and use the WA Open Data platform data.wa.gov.au.

We pleased to announce for Geospatial Data Publishers version 2.2 of the SLIP Data Upload Tool will be released on Thursday 14th March 2019.

This article was originally published on 08 Mar 2019 by The Data WA Team

We wanted to let you know that we have been working to improve the way news and information is delivered through our blog and mailing list.

News, articles and updates posted here on the DataWA blog will shortly have tags to help you better identify the information in them, and to let you choose the topics that most interest you. 

This article was originally published on 06 Feb 2019 by The Data WA Team

Summary

• Main Roads’ road asset data is now accessible via the Main Roads data portal
• Road asset data sets will be removed from the SLIP Public Transport service on Wednesday 27 March 2019

This article was originally published on 03 Dec 2018 by The Data WA Team

Summary

ArcGIS Online will be upgrading to TLS 1.2 in February 2019

• Are you using spatial data services? If yes, read on to find out what this change means for you
• TLS is the acronym for Transport Layer Security; it’s a protocol that encrypts and authenticates secure connections across the web
• TLS 1.0 and 1.1 will be formally deprecated
• Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla have announced they plan to disable TLS 1.0 and 1.1 support in their browsers in the first half of 2020
• We will also be removing support for TLS 1.0; applications and web browsers using TLS 1.0 will not be able to connect to spatial data services (SLIP) and maps when support is removed