MapData Sciences Pty Ltd

Insurance risk used to be based on your postcode.
Today we offer online natural hazards risk ratings with the accuracy of an individual address
Flood, Hail, Bushfire, Cyclone, Earthquake.
Manage your insurance risk.

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Your Property ($50.00 plus GST)

Digital Mapping Data & Software

MapData Sciences creates a wide variety of digital mapping data products for presentation, geocoding, routing networks, and analysis. Data is available in a variety of data formats including MapInfo TAB, MID/MIF, and ESRI Shapefile. Other formats are available on request.

Map Display & Presentation

MapData Sciences' RoadNet Presentation is the perfect data source for all of your Australian and New Zealand base map needs, from street level to national display scales. This product contains streets (including name and category), transport, towns, points of interest, land use and topography.

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Street Address Ranges

MapData Sciences' RoadNet Comprehensive provides a detailed street centreline layer with street name and address ranges for left- and right-hand sides of the street. Geocoding applications can use this data to geocode addresses nationwide across Australia and New Zealand. Also provided are presentation layers for base map display.

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Routing, Driving Directions, & Distance Calculations

MapData Sciences' RoadNet Routing Attributes are specific to street routing for our RoadNet Presentation and RoadNet Comprehensive mapping products. Attributes include one-way and turning restrictions, average driving speed, city, postcode, and state.

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Australian G-NAF Address Table

MapData Sciences takes the complex relational G-NAF source data provided by the Australian Government and creates simple, easy-to-use data tables in a variety of GIS formats. We then enhance the data by providing an accurate postcode for each address — important for distinguishing towns of the same name in different parts of a state.

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New Zealand GeoPAF Address Points

The GeoPAF (the title is an amalgam of "geographical postal address file") is a definitive, regularly updated file of approximately 1.8 million postal addresses augmented with geographical, statistical and property identifiers.

GeoPAF benefits from the daily ground truthing and error checking carried out by the extensive New Zealand Post field force.

Administrative Boundaries

MapData Sciences provides a selection of Government administrative boundary products for Australia and New Zealand, including..

  • Suburb and Locality boundaries, including national parks, Aboriginal reserves, and other protected areas
  • Postcode boundaries - including New Zealand Post boundaries
  • Census Collection District boundaries (Austalia)
  • Mesh Blocks for Australia and New Zealand
  • Local government authority boundaries, and
  • Cadastral boundaries including property identifiers

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Custom Data Mapping Services

MapData Sciences' Consulting Division can provide customised digital mapping services, including hard or soft base map generation, analysis, territory planning and more.

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NEWS

Is your home at risk?
September 2008

"In the future, insurance premiums will be linked to actual risk” says Professor McAneney, “people need to be aware of this when buying a property and have an idea of the sort of actions they can take to reduce the risk to property and their lives"
 
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Mapping the connections between churches and communities
August 2008

NCLS Research is providing user-friendly Community Connections Packs based on customised 2006 Census data to over 7,000 churches from 22 denominations across Australia. A key feature of the pack is data visualisation and mapping
 
Click here to understand more

ABC News Story - February 08

"Scientists have established an environmental disaster rating system for home dwellers using 15 years of environmental data.
 
Storms, fires and floods, it's been a month of extreme weather around the nation but just how safe from disaster is your property? "
 
Click here for full story.
Click here to rate your property

Employment Opportunities
 

Due to increased growth, MapData Sciences is currently looking to fill the following position within the organisation. The position is in the Sydney Head Office, St Leonards.
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GIS Officer

If interested, please send your resume with a covering letter via emailing us.