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Duane Wilkins

Duane Wilkins’s work spans health, conservation, policing and land information. At the Department of Conservation he managed GIS and later returned to lead the regional shared-service team formed in 2012. At LINZ he worked in geospatial capability building, including Ngā Poutama Matawhenua, the practical Māori GIS mapping wānanga. In 2020 he was seconded to the COVID-19 Operations Command Centre and developed a support website and mapping tools for Māori and Pacific communities and NGOs. In 2021 he led the Police ArcGIS Enterprise implementation team.

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Duane Wilkins recalls that Eagle Technology designed DOCgis before 2003, with departmental analysts and developers continuing its development. He also recalls difficult relations between regional teams and the GIS manager. Around a decade later, Wilkins returned to lead GIS; in 2012 the team became a shared service for the regions, a change he remembers as highly successful.

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Chapter 26 · DOCgis after the 2003 releases

LINZ’s 2026 Geospatial Capability Committee material lists Duane Wilkins in Ngā Poutama Matawhenua geospatial consultant, corresponding member; Geospatial Capability Committee..

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LINZ, Geospatial Capability Committee

LINZ names Duane Wilkins in its geospatial virtual field-trip record: Geographic Information Advocate, LINZ, 2017 VFT.

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LINZ, Geospatial for schools

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Duane Wilkins, account of DOCgis development and the 2012 shared-service reform
Duane Wilkins, Manaaki COVID-19 response GIS design and migration record, May 2020
Author account supplied by Duane Wilkins, Police ArcGIS Enterprise team, 2021
Learnz, Meet Duane Wilkins
Public Service Commission, Public Service Day Awards 2020: Duane Wilkins
LINZ Annual Report 2020/21
LINZ, Geospatial Capability Committee
Chapter 26 · DOCgis after the 2003 releases
LINZ, Geospatial for schools

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DOCgis after the 2003 releasesConservation and environment
ManaakiHealth population and place
From public maps to controlled operational dataHealth population and place
New professional networksThe GIS profession
The platform teamEnterprise GIS

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2001 · DOC biodiversity platform developmentyear precision
2003-08 · DOCgis Java-client milestonemonth precision
2003-06 · DOCgis Version 2 / Release II milestonemonth precision
2009-08-24 · DOC publicly describes DOCgis as operational national infrastructureday precision
2011 · Women in Spatial re-forms to connect women in spatial and surveying workyear precision
2012 · DOCgis team reforms as a regional shared serviceyear precision
2013-02-12 · DOCgis map print records continuing useday precision
2013 · Geoff O’Malley reports on New Zealand spatial skillsyear precision
By 2015 · NZ GIS Geeks is publicly documentedapproximate precision
September 2015 · Women in Spatial discusses career advancement, mentoring and informal networksmonth precision
2017 · Geoff O’Malley sets out national geospatial capability prioritiesyear precision
Early 2017 · Māori GIS Facebook group active as a practitioner networkapproximate precision
24 October 2018 · Women in Spatial members discuss barriers in the spatial industryday precision
5 July 2018 · Women in Spatial lightning talks at Transpower show GIS across sectorsday precision
2020-10 · Ngā Poutama Matawhenua wānanga beginmonth precision
2021-08 · Jan Pierce becomes Kaihautū Customer Deliverymonth precision
2022-02-10 · Ngā Poutama collaboration wins the 2021 Community Impact Awardday precision
2023 · Geoff O’Malley contributes to the geospatial industry surveyyear precision
2024 · WIS+S lightning talks span tactile mapping, surveying and GIS educationyear precision

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LINZ geospatial capability research, 6 October 2026