Proceedings of the 18th Association of Public Authority Surveyors Conference (APAS2013) Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia, 12-14 March 2013 i Proceedings of the 18th Association of Public Authority Surveyors Conference (APAS2013) Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia, 12-14 March 2013 18th Annual Conference, Association of Public Authority Surveyors (NSW) Inc. (incorporating 88th Annual Conference, NSW Staff Surveyors Association Inc.) These proceedings are proudly sponsored by © 2013 Association of Public Authority Surveyors, New South Wales (APAS) ii Proceedings of the 18th Association of Public Authority Surveyors Conference (APAS2013) Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia, 12-14 March 2013 Table of Contents Office Bearers for 2012/2013....................................................................................................1 Editorial......................................................................................................................................2 The Transit of Venus and 18th Century Positioning and Navigation Case Bosloper.............................................................................................................................3 Surveys at the Sydney Cricket Ground 1999-2013 David Barrington......................................................................................................................21 Sustainable Development, Subdivision, Surveyors and Sun Angles II Grant Calvin..............................................................................................................................30 Flexible Learning in Vocational Education and Training for Surveying: Approaches, Lessons, and Directions Elizabeth Moylan......................................................................................................................50 The Tomago to Stroud 132 kV Transmission Line: A Surveying Mixed Bag Adam Long...............................................................................................................................58 Locata: A Positioning System for Indoor and Outdoor Applications Where GNSS Does Not Work Chris Rizos...............................................................................................................................73 A Next Generation Datum for Australia John Dawson.............................................................................................................................84 Data-Mining in NSW: Working Towards a New and Improved Australian Datum Joel Haasdyk and Tony Watson...............................................................................................85 Discussion Forum: Impacts of a Next Generation Datum for Australia Craig Roberts, John Dawson, Chris Rizos and Doug Kinlyside............................................103 Tying It All Together: CORSnet-NSW Local Tie Surveys Nicholas Gowans and Thomas Grinter...................................................................................104 GNSS-Based Animal Tracking: An Indirect Approach Volker Janssen........................................................................................................................120 From Riverina Water Shortage to Snowy Surplus: Charles Scrivener’s Task to Locate a National Capital Terry G. Birtles.......................................................................................................................128 The Consequences of Watershed Boundaries of the ACT Mike Stapleton.......................................................................................................................136 iii Proceedings of the 18th Association of Public Authority Surveyors Conference (APAS2013) Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia, 12-14 March 2013 Finding Bennelong? Surveying Solves a 200-Year-Old Mystery Fred de Belin..........................................................................................................................152 Impact of the New Surveying and Spatial Information Regulation 2012 Les Gardner............................................................................................................................163 SCIMS3: The Next Generation Survey Control Information Management System Doug Kinlyside.......................................................................................................................174 Improving Survey Infrastructure in NSW: Construction of the Eglinton EDM Baseline Dick Ellis, Volker Janssen and Robert Lock..........................................................................187 Shaping the Cadastral Infrastructure for a Digital Future Craig Sandy............................................................................................................................202 Cadastral Modelling and the Role of the Government Surveyor Ian Harper and Michael Elfick...............................................................................................211 Mobile Laser Scanning: Field Methodology for Achieving the Highest Accuracy at Traffic Speed Rod Eckels and John Nolan....................................................................................................218 The Impact of Natural Disasters on the Cadastre Narelle Underwood................................................................................................................231 List of Attendees....................................................................................................................253 iv Proceedings of the 18th Association of Public Authority Surveyors Conference (APAS2013) Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia, 12-14 March 2013 Office Bearers for 2012/2013 Association of Public Authority Surveyors Office Bearers for 2012/2013: President: Grant Kilpatrick Vice President: David Webb Secretary: Geoff Lenton Treasurer: Les Gardner Committee: Jarad Cannings, Fred de Belin, Warren Thomas Past President: Neil Bennett Publications Officer: Dr Volker Janssen Conference Manager: Gavin Evans ISNSW Representative: Graeme Stewart Public Officer: Geoff Lenton NSW Staff Surveyors Association Office Bearers for 2012/2013: President: Peter Ragen Vice President: Wayne Fenwick Secretary: Les Gardner Treasurer: John Filocamo Committee: Dan Kennedy, Peter O’Kane, Geoff Songberg Past President: Dick Ellis Publications Officer: Dick Ellis Conference Manager: Peter Ragen ISNSW Representative: Graeme Stewart PSA Representative: Andrew Carter Public Officer: Les Gardner 1 Proceedings of the 18th Association of Public Authority Surveyors Conference (APAS2013) Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia, 12-14 March 2013 Editorial These proceedings contain the papers presented at the Association of Public Authority Surveyors Conference (APAS2013), held in Canberra, ACT, Australia, on 12-14 March 2013. Papers were not peer-reviewed but have been subject to changes made by the Editor. The Editor would like to thank all authors for their contributions covering a wide range of topics relevant to the surveying and spatial information community, thus ensuring an exciting and informative conference. Authors are welcome to make their paper, as it appears in these conference proceedings, available online on their personal and/or their institution’s website, provided it is clearly stated that the paper was originally published in these proceedings. Papers should be referenced according to the following template: Ellis D., Janssen V. and Lock R. (2013) Improving survey infrastructure in NSW: Construction of the Eglinton EDM baseline, Proceedings of Association of Public Authority Surveyors Conference (APAS2013), Canberra, Australia, 12-14 March, 187-201. APAS is not responsible for any statements made or opinions expressed in the papers included in these conference proceedings. NSW Land and Property Information (LPI) is gratefully acknowledged for providing the front cover artwork and producing these proceedings, and for sponsoring the conference in general. The APAS committee is thanked for their hard work in organising this conference. Dr Volker Janssen Editor and APAS Publications Officer Survey Infrastructure and Geodesy Land and Property Information NSW Department of Finance & Services [email protected] 2 Proceedings of the 18th Association of Public Authority Surveyors Conference (APAS2013) Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia, 12-14 March 2013 The Transit of Venus and 18th Century Positioning and Navigation Case Bosloper Retired Senior Surveyor, formerly Land and Property Information (Bathurst) [email protected] ABSTRACT This paper outlines the significance of the Transit of Venus observations, as viewed through the eyes of a surveyor. Did the Nautical Almanac tables of contemporaries of First Fleet astronomer William Dawes incorporate any of the new information resulting from the transit observations of that century? The author presents an overview of the state of celestial mechanics of the 18th century and the exciting mathematical developments that were taking place at the time. A closer look is taken at how the predicting of the eclipses of the satellites of Jupiter and the development of lunar theory was affected by the gaining of an understanding of the size of our solar system. Hand in hand with this were the technological improvements in the optics of instruments like telescopes that took place in Great Britain, and the progress in the cataloguing of star positions for navigation. On the continent, vast theoretical development