| ACSA |
Association of Consulting Surveyors, Australia |
| ADR |
(Western Australian) Address Register |
| AEMC |
Australian Emergency Management Committee |
| AGCC |
Australian Global Navigation Satellite System Coordination Committee |
| AGRECON |
Agricultural Reconnaissance Technologies Pty Ltd |
| AGSO |
Australian Geological Survey Organisation (now Geoscience Australia) |
| AHS |
Australian Hydrographic Service |
| ALGA |
Australian Local Government Association |
| ANMDG |
Australian National Marine Data Group |
| ANZLIC |
The Spatial Information Council of Australia and New Zealand (formerly known as the Australia New Zealand Land Information Council) |
| ANZSM |
Australian & New Zealand Spatial Marketplace |
| APSDI |
Asia and the Pacific Spatial Data Infrastructure |
| APSEA |
Asia-Pacific Spatial Excellence Award |
| AS/NZS |
Australian/New Zealand Standard |
| ASDD |
Australian Spatial Data Directory |
| ASDI |
Australian Spatial Data Infrastructure |
| ASDI DN |
ASDI Distribution Network |
| ASGC |
Australian Standard Geographical Classification (replaced by the ASGS Australia Statistical Geography Standard) |
| ASGS |
Australia Statistical Geography Standard (replacement for the ASGC Australian Standard Geographical Classification) |
| ASIBA |
Australian Spatial Information Business Association |
| ASIERA |
Australian Spatial Information Education and Research Association |
| AURIN |
Australian Urban Research Infrastructure Network |
| AURISA |
Australasian Urban & Regional Information Systems Association |
| AUSLIG |
Australian Surveying and Land Information Group (now National Mapping Division, Geoscience Australia) |
| CD |
ISO Committee Draft |
| CGNA |
Committee for Geographical Names in Australasia |
| CORS |
Continuously Operating Reference Station (in relation to network GPS corrections) |
| CRC-SI |
Cooperative Research Centre for Spatial Information |
| DEM |
Digital Elevation Model |
| DIS |
ISO Draft International Standard |
| DPID |
Delivery Point Identifier (Australia Post) |
| DPS |
Data Product Specification |
| e-GIF |
Electronic Government Interoperability Framework |
| EICS |
Emergency Information Coordination System |
| EM/CT WG |
ANZLIC Emergency Management/Counter Terrorism Working Group |
| EMA |
Emergency Management Australia (now part of Attorney-General’s Department) |
| EMSINA |
Emergency Management Spatial Information Network Australia |
| ERIN |
Environmental Resources Information Network |
| ESCALUM |
Executive Steering Committee for Australian Land Use Mapping |
| ESCAVI |
Executive Steering Committee for Australian Vegetation Information |
| ESRI |
Environmental Research Systems Institute, Inc |
| FDIS |
ISO Final Draft International Standard |
| FGDC |
US Federal Geographic Data Committee |
| FIG |
International Federation of Surveyors (Fédération Internationale des Géomètres) |
| FOI |
Feature of Interest |
| FTP |
File Transfer Protocol |
| GA |
Geoscience Australia (formerly AUSLIG and AGSO) |
| GDA |
Geocentric Datum of Australia |
| GEIN |
Geospatial Emergency Information Network |
| GIRG |
Geospatial Information Reference Group |
| GIS |
Geographic Information System |
| GIS |
Geographic Information System |
| GITA |
Geospatial Information & Technology Association |
| GML |
Geographic Markup Language |
| G-NAF |
Geocoded National Address File |
| GNSS |
Global Navigation Satellite System (generic term for satellite based positioning and navigation systems) |
| GPS |
Global Positioning System (refers specifically to the US military system) |
| GSDI |
Global Spatial Data Infrastructure |
| GSDI TWG |
Global Spatial Data Infrastructure Technical Working Group |
| GT |
Geomatic Technologies |
| ICSM |
Intergovernmental Committee on Surveying & Mapping (a Standing Committee of ANZLIC) |
| IDB |
Integrated Data Base |
| IDP |
Interoperability Demonstration Project |
| IDSC |
ANZLIC Industry Development Standing Committee |
| IEMSA |
Institution of Engineering & Mining Surveyors Australia Inc |
| IHO |
International Hydrographic Organisation |
| IOC |
Intergovernmental Oceans Commission |
| IPR |
Interoperability Program Report |
| IS |
ISO International Standard |
| ISA |
Institution of Surveyors, Australia |
| ISCGM |
International Steering Committee for Global Mapping |
| ISO |
International Organization for Standardization |
| ISO/TC204 |
ISO Technical Committee on Transport information and control systems |
| ISO/TC211 |
ISO Technical Committee on Geographic information/Geomatics |
| IT-004 |
Standards Australia Committee for Geographical Information |
| JSC |
Joint Steering Committee (for the Spatial Information Industry; comprising ANLZIC, ASIBA, SSI and DITR) |
| LBS |
Location Based Services |
| LGIF |
Local Government Interoperability Framework |
| LGOSDAC |
Local Government Online Service Delivery Advisory Committee |
| LINZ |
Land Information New Zealand |
| LIST |
Land Information System Tasmania |
| MB |
Mesh Blocks |
| MDS |
MapData Services |
| NAMF |
National Address Management Framework |
| NAR |
National Address Register |
| NCTC WG |
National Counter Terrorism Committee Standing Working Group on Spatial Information |
| NWS |
(National Address Management Framework) Web Service |
| OGC |
Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (formerly OpenGIS Consortium) |
| OGC SIG |
Open Geospatial Consortium Special Interest Group (Australia) |
| OGC TC |
Open Geospatial Consortium Technical Committee |
| OGC-A |
Open Geospatial Consortium Australasia (a subsidiary of OGC) |
| OpenLS |
Open Location Service |
| OSP |
Office of Spatial Policy (formerly OSPD Office of Spatial Data Management) |
| OSTP |
US Office of Science and Technology Policy |
| OWS |
OGC Web Services |
| PAF |
Postal Address File (Australia Post) |
| PBBI |
Pitney Bowes Business Insight |
| PBS |
Pitney Bowes Software |
| PC IDEA |
Permanent Committee on Spatial Data Infrastructure for the Americas |
| PCGIAP |
The Permanent Committee on GIS Infrastructure for Asia and the Pacific |
| PID |
Persistent Identifier |
| PMSEIC |
The Prime Minister’s Science Engineering & Innovation Council |
| POI |
Point of Interest |
| QGIS |
Quantum GIS (supplier) |
| QSIIC |
Queensland Spatial Information Infrastructure Council |
| QSIIS |
Queensland Spatial Information Infrastructure Strategy |
| RCL |
Road Centre Line |
| RSPAA |
Remote Sensing & Photogrammetry Association of Australasia |
| RWG |
ICSM Roads Working Group |
| SCAR |
Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research |
| SDI |
Spatial Data Infrastructure |
| SDI SC |
ANZLIC Spatial Data Infrastructure Standing Committee |
| SDI TWG |
ANZLIC Spatial Data Infrastructure Technical Working Group |
| SDMG |
Spatial Data Management Group |
| SDPE |
Spatial Data Policy Executive |
| SIBA |
Spatial Industries Business Association |
| SIIAA |
Spatial Information Industry Action Agenda |
| SIX |
Shared Information Exchange (NSW) |
| SLIP |
Shared Land Information Platform (WA) |
| SOA |
Service Oriented Architecture |
| SPG |
ANZLIC Strategy and Policy Group |
| SSSI |
Surveying & Spatial Sciences Institute (peak professional association) |
| TMB |
ISO Technical Management Board |
| TMG |
ISO Terminology Maintenance Group |
| TOCG |
ISO TC211-OGC Coordination Group |
| TS ISO |
Technical Specification |
| UDEM |
Urban Digital Elevation Model |
| UML |
Unified Markup Language |
| UNGEGN |
United Nations Group of Experts on Geographic Names |
| UNRCC-AP |
United Nations Regional Cartographic Conference for Asia and the Pacific |
| URISA |
Urban and Regional Information Systems Association |
| UUID |
Universal Unique Identifiers |
| VAR |
Value-Added Reseller |
| VMAS |
Victorian Mapping and Address Service |
| WALIS |
Western Australian Land Information System |
| WCS |
Web Coverage Server (an OGC standard) |
| WD |
ISO Working Draft |
| WEND |
Worldwide Electronic Navigational Database |
| WFS |
Web Feature Service (access to data about geographic features and information, an OGC standard) |
| WG-GGI |
SCAR Working Group on Geodesy and Geographic Information |
| WI |
ISO Work Item |
| WMS |
Web Mapping Service (transformation of data into a map as an image, an OGC standard) |
| WPS |
Web Processing Service (rules for standardising inputs and outputs for geospatial processing services such as polygon overlay, an OGC standard) |
| XML |
Extensible Markup Language |
