Australian geological data now available to all

Mining industry explorers, earthquake and climate change scientists and members of the public can now access geospatial information about Australia's geology through a new open-access network. The new open-access network of geospatial data and its supporting infrastructure – known as the Spatial Information Services Stack (SISS) – has been developed and launched by the CSIRO and AuScope, in collaboration with other research organisations around Australia....The SISS aims to encourage cross-disciplinary technical collaborations, by giving open access to some of Australia’s best geological data....SISS users can discover, browse, save and process geospatial information from earth science data sources around Australia. They can view data, filter the data based on user-specific queries, and download data to their computer...."