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Acronyms, Abbreviations & Contradictions
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AAA Australian Automobile Association
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ABS Australian Bureau of Statistics
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ACF Australian Conservation Foundation
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ACSA Association of Consulting Surveyors, Australia
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AEMC Australian Emergency Management Committee
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AGCC Australian Global Navigation Satellite System Coordination Committee
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AGRECON Agricultural Reconnaissance Technologies Pty Ltd
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AGSO Australian Geological Survey Organisation (now Geoscience Australia)
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AHS Australian Hydrographic Service
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ALGA Australian Local Government Association
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ANMDG Australian National Marine Data Group
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ANZLIC The Spatial Information Council of Australia and New Zealand (formerly known as the Australia New Zealand Land Information Council)
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APSDI Asia and the Pacific Spatial Data Infrastructure
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ASDD Australian Spatial Data Directory
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ASDI Australian Spatial Data Infrastructure
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ASDI DN ASDI Distribution Network
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ASGC Australian Standard Geographical Classification
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ASIBA Australian Spatial Information Business Association
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ASIERA Australian Spatial Information Education and Research Association
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AS/NZS Australian/New Zealand Standard
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AURISA Australasian Urban & Regional Information Systems Association
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AUSLIG Australian Surveying and Land Information Group (now National Mapping Division, Geoscience Australia)
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CEO Chief Executive Officer
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CG Community group
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CGNA Committee for Geographical Names in Australasia
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COAG Council of Australian Governments
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CRC-SI Cooperative Research Centre for Spatial Information
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CSIRO Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
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DoCITA Australian Government Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts
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DITR Australian Government Department of Industry, Tourism and Resources
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DIS ISO Draft International Standard
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DNRE Department of Natural Resources & Environment, Victoria (now DSE)
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DNRM Department of Natural Resources & Mines, Queensland (now DNRME)
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DNRME Department of Natural Resources, Mines & Energy, Queensland (formerly DNRM)
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DoTaRS Australian Government Department of Transport & Regional Services
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DRDC Dairy Research & Development Corporation
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DSE Department of Sustainability and Environment, Victoria (formerly DNRE)
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e-GIF Electronic Government Interoperability Framework
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EICS Emergency Information Coordination System
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EMA Emergency Management Australia
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EM/CT WG ANZLIC Emergency Management/Counter Terrorism Working Group
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EMSINA Emergency Management Spatial Information Network Australia
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ERIN Environmental Resources Information Network
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ESCALUM Executive Steering Committee for Australian Land Use Mapping
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ESCAVI Executive Steering Committee for Australian Vegetation Information
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ESRI Environmental Research Systems Institute, Inc
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FDIS ISO Final Draft International Standard
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FGDC US Federal Geographic Data Committee
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FIG International Federation of Surveyors (Fédération Internationale des Géomètres)
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GA Geoscience Australia (formerly AUSLIG and AGSO)
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GDA Geocentric Datum of Australia
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GEIN Geospatial Emergency Information Network
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GIRG Geospatial Information Reference Group
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GIS Geographic Information System
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GITA Geospatial Information & Technology Association
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GML Geographic Markup Language
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G-NAF Geocoded National Address File
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GSDI Global Spatial Data Infrastructure
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GSDI TWG Global Spatial Data Infrastructure Technical Working Group
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ICSM Intergovernmental Committee on Surveying & Mapping (a Standing Committee of ANZLIC)
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IDP Interoperability Demonstration Project
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IDSC ANZLIC Industry Development Standing Committee
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IEMSA Institution of Engineering & Mining Surveyors Australia Inc
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IHO International Hydrographic Organisation
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IMF Information Managers Forum (an informal group)
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IOC Intergovernmental Oceans Commission
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IPR Interoperability Program Report
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IS ISO International Standard
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ISA Institution of Surveyors, Australia
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ISCGM International Steering Committee for Global Mapping
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ISO International Organization for Standardization
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ISO is not an acronym but derived from the Greek word isos meaning equal. The universal use of ISO avoids variations of the acronym created by translation differences. ISO also refers to an international standard.
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ISO/TC204 ISO Technical Committee on Transport information and control systems
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ISO/TC211 ISO Technical Committee on Geographic information/Geomatics
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IT-004 Standards Australia Committee for Geographical Information
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JSC Joint Steering Committee (for the Spatial Information Industry; comprising ANLZIC, ASIBA, SSI and DITR)
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LBS Location Based Services
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LGIF Local Government Interoperability Framework
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LGOSDAC Local Government Online Service Delivery Advisory Committee
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LINZ Land Information New Zealand
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LWA Land & Water Australia
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MDBC Murray-Darling Basin Commission
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MSIA Mapping Sciences Institute, Australia
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NASA United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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NCTC National Counter Terrorism Committee
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NCTC WG National Counter Terrorism Committee Standing Working Group on Spatial Information
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NGO Non-government organisation
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NLWRA National Land and Water Resources Audit (aka "the Audit")
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NHMC Natural Heritage Ministerial Council
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NNTT National Native Title Tribunal
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NOIE National Office for the Information Economy
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NOO National Oceans Office
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NRMMC Natural Resource Management Ministerial Council
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NRMMC SC Natural Resource Management Ministerial Council Standing Committee
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OECD Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
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OGC Open Geopspatial Consortium, Inc. (formerly OpenGIS Consortium)
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OGC-A Open Geospatial Consortium Australasia (a subsidiary of OGC)
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OGC SIG Open Geospatial Consortium Special Interest Group (Australia)
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OGC TC Open Geospatial Consortium Technical Committee
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OpenLS Open Location Service
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OSDM Australian Government Office of Spatial Data Management
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OSTP US Office of Science and Technology Policy
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OWS OGC Web Services
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PCGIAP The Permanent Committee on GIS Infrastructure for Asia and the Pacific
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PC IDEA Permanent Committee on Spatial Data Infrastructure for the Americas
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PMSEIC The Prime Minister's Science Engineering & Innovation Council
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PSMA PSMA (Public Sector Mapping Agencies) Australia Limited
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QSIIC Queensland Spatial Information Infrastructure Council
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QSIIS Queensland Spatial Information Infrastructure Strategy
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R&D Research and Development
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RAND a US "think tank" organisation (a contraction of the term Research and Development) RG Registrar-General
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RIC Regional Information Centres
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RIRDC Rural Industries Research Development Corporation
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RSPAA Remote Sensing & Photogrammetry Association of Australasia
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SCAR Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research
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SDI Spatial Data Infrastructure
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SDI SC ANZLIC Spatial Data Infrastructure Standing Committee
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SDI TWG ANZLIC Spatial Data Infrastructure Technical Working Group
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SDMG Spatial Data Management Group
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SDPE Spatial Data Policy Executive
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SIIAA Spatial Information Industry Action Agenda
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SKM Sinclair Knight Merz
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SPG ANZLIC Strategy and Policy Group
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SSESFAC Spatial Sciences Education and Skills Formation Advisory Council, a sub-committee of the Spatial Information Industry Joint Steering Committee
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SSI Spatial Sciences Institute (peak professional association)
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SWPHC South-West Pacific Hydrographic Commission
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TMB ISO Technical Management Board
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TMG ISO Terminology Maintenance Group
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TOCG ISO TC211-OGC Coordination Group
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TS ISO Technical Specification
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UNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation
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UNGEGN United Nations Group of Experts on Geographic Names
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UNRCC-AP United Nations Regional Cartographic Conference for Asia and the Pacific
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W3C World Wide Web Consortium (aka WWWC)
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WALIS Western Australian Land Information System
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WCS Web Coverage Server
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WD ISO Working Draft
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WEND Worldwide Electronic Navigational Database
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WFS Web Feature Server
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WG-GGI SCAR Working Group on Geodesy and Geographic Information
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WI ISO Work Item
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WWWC World Wide Web Consortium (aka W3C)
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XML Extensible Markup Language
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