1. South Australia Development Division
Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure
Thank you for the Invitation.
When asked to give an status report on my office in SA on word best describes the 4 years I have had in the role.
Disruptive- It has been a period of significant change.
That is probably in part because I came in just after the GFC, but it make me think about that sort of change over my career, and I would like to share that with you as a lead into the major challenges of change we now face.

2. The environment we are in is Disruptive.
Disruptive technology or disruptive innovation ?
But is definitely disruptive.

3. “The Speed of change is exponential.
The amount of technological advancement that occurred in the year 2000 occurs every 1 hour and 6 minutes in 2013, and will occur every 30 seconds in 2020.”

4. I know you cannot read this chart but of the top ten disruptive technologies, the to 6 have some impact on surveyors.

5. Measurement Technology- Theodolite
Open Vernier Theodolite
Optical Circle Theodolite
Total Station
Robotic Total Station
I have started this list at 1840, being the settlement of SA was in 1836
Open Vernier Theodolite over one hundred years
Optical Circle Theodolite
Total Station
Robotic Total Station

6. Distance Measurement 1840 - 1900 Gunther's Chain
Steel Band
Tellurometer
EDM
Total Station
Hand held EDM

7. Photogrammetry 1920 - Aerial Photography and stereoscopic models
Photogrammetric Mapping
Digital Photogrammetric Mapping
Landsat Imagery
Lidar
Terrestrial laser Scanners
Mobile Laser Scanning
Low Level Mapping
Drones

8. GPS 1980 - First Receivers available 1995 - Differential GPS
RTK- Mass Take-up

9. Integration
Integration of out technologies within surveying

10. Integration
Integration with non surveyors and into the mass market.
For example now surveyors only make up about 5% of the market utilising GPS positioning

11. Survey Innovation Timelines

12. Business Disruption Up to 1990 stable small business profession
growth of larger and multi-disciplinary practices
Post GFC emergence of the Corporate Conglomerate
Private sector

13. Business Disruption Office of the Surveyor-General 1985 325 Staff
Government sector to.

14. Functions Integrity of the Cadastre through Statutory Role in Mapping
Regulation
Survey Practice Directions
Auditing
Statutory Role in
Roads
Geographic Names
Mapping
Geodetic Network
List the functions
Then –
Now I would like to talk about the two most significant disruptive changes happening in the SA Government in 2016

15. Future - Closer Links to Planning
Planning, Development and Infrastructure
Act 2015
Faster more efficient
Focus on Design
Community Engagement
Infrastructure planning
Digital by Default
e-planning
Electronic Planning Code
High level of Spatial Integration

16. Future – Commercialisation of Land Services
Operational and ICT Functions of the
Registrar-General
Valuer-General

17. Land Titles Office Regulatory and Policy Function
Indefeasibility of Title- The Register
Assurance Fund
Audit & Compliance
Contract Management
Complex Transactions

18. Office of the Valuer-General
Responsible for the Valuation Role
Policy
Audit & Compliance
Objectives & Grievances
Complex Transactions

19. Office of the Surveyor-General?

20. Mike Burdett
Surveyor-General
Planning & Development Directorate
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