Hema's Great Dividing Range mapping expedition
Last month the crew at Hema Maps in Brisbane farewelled the team engaged in its expedition to map every single road, track and recreational area along the Great Dividing RangeThe expedition leader, geophysicist Alistair McMillan, his wife Michelle (also a geophysicist) and their twin four-year-old boys will spend the next 12 months on the road in the Hema Map Patrol, the company's purpose-built mapping vehicle. They will enter the collected data directly into Hema's geographic information system (GIS) database, which is the engine from which all mapping products are derived.
The venture is reminiscent of Hema's Great Desert Tracks mapping expeditions in the 1990s, which took four years to complete and mapped every track and road west of Charleville, south of the Kimberley, north of the Great Australian Bight and east of the Indian Ocean.
Hema has found that a dedicated, expedition-style approach is the most efficient way to ensure the systematic capture of all the required mapping information.
The Great Dividing Range is the fourth-longest mountain range in the world, after the Andes and Rockies and only just after the Himalayas.
Stay in touch with the expedition's progress in the blog at http://www.hemamaps.com/
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