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Membership
Information
Welcome to the Membership Page of the MSIA
NSW Division. Listed below is information regarding qualifications, grades
of membership, company membership, fees and a downloadable application
form.
1. Membership benefits
2. Qualifications required for becoming a member
3. Membership fees
4. Application Form
5. Processing of applications
6. Company membership
7. Memorandum
and Articles of Association.
Benefits of MSIA Membership
The benefits of membership in the MSIA far
outweigh the cost. Benefits and services offered to members include:
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Receipt of
MSIA Bi-annual Journal - Spatial Science
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Receipt of our
NSW Division Newsletter - CartoCourier
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Invitations to
workshops, technical tours and social events
·
Local,
regional, national and international networking opportunities
Qualifications for Membership
Criteria For MEMBER Grade
You hold an accredited Degree plus at least two years Mapping Sciences
experience or Continuing Professional Development (CPD) accreditation
deemed satisfactory by Council or You hold an equivalent formal academic
qualification approved by Council as satisfying its requirements plus at
least two years Mapping Sciences experience or CPD accreditation deemed
satisfactory by Council or You have held Associate Membership for five
years and have maintained the appropriate number of CPD points approved by
Council as satisfying its requirements for that period, and have been
engaged in the practice of at least one of the professions of Mapping
Sciences, and will have gained thereby, experience deemed satisfactory by
Council.
Criteria for ASSOCIATE MEMBER Grade
You hold an accredited Degree and have less than two years Mapping Sciences
experience or CPD accreditation or You hold an accredited Associate Diploma
or a formal academic qualification approved by Council as satisfying its
requirements and have been engaged in the practice of at least one of the
professions of Mapping Sciences for at least two years, and will have
gained thereby, experience deemed satisfactory by Council.
Criteria for AFFILIATE MEMBER Grade
You hold an accredited Associate Diploma or equivalent and have less than
two years Mapping Sciences experience. Council may elect as an Affiliate to
the Institute any person who is not eligible for Corporate or Student
Membership, but who is interested in furthering the objects of the
Institute and is deemed by Council to be worthy of election.
Criteria for STUDENT MEMBER Grade
You have received or are receiving such academic and practical training as
will fit you for admittance as a corporate member of the Institute. The
maximum time as a Student Member is ten years, But You cannot remain in the
Grade of Student Member beyond the end of the financial year in which You
became eligible for a higher Grade.
Note: Once a member is eligible for a higher Grade of Membership, You
should make application for that Grade by the end of the financial year of
attainment.
MEMBERSHIP
The Manual of Procedure of the Institute
requires that the following information be supplied to each Applicant, by
the Membership Secretary of the Division, in which the Applicant resides or
is located.
APPLICATIONS FOR MEMBERSHIP
All applicants should be provided with the following details:
· Membership Fee Rates. There is no Nomination or Regrading Fee.
· Details concerning student grade membership.
· Appropriate contact addresses for advice and lodgement of
applications, and payment of the Membership Fee.
· Details of expected processing time for applications.
All Applications for Membership must be
accompanied by payment of ONE (1) Year's Membership Fee. This is determined
at the rate according to the membership grade for which the applicant is
eligible. Details on Membership Grades are shown on the reverse side of the
Application Form.
The applicant is entitled to the rights and privileges of membership,
except voting rights.
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MEMBERSHIP FEE
Annual Membership Fees are required to be remitted as early as possible in
each financial year.
The Financial Year is from 1 January to 31 December.
STUDENT GRADE MEMBERSHIP
Annual Membership Fee Rate for a Student Member Grade will be determined
upon the status of attendance at a recognised tertiary college of studies,
for obtaining the Initial Qualifications required by The Council of the
Institute.
ACCREDITED ACADEMIC COURSES
These may consist of Degrees, Diplomas, Associate Diplomas, and former Post
Certificates & Certificates of the Department of TAFE.
Courses in GIS, LIS, Computer Science, Cartography, Hydrography, Geography,
Geology, Photogrammetry, Surveying and allied disciplines may be accepted
as Accredited Courses.
Overseas Qualifications should be accompanied with an assessment from the
National Office of Overseas Skills Recognition within Australia.
CONTACT ADDRESSES
Membership Applications should be forwarded to the NSW Division Membership
Secretary.
REMEMBER, Membership Fee where applicable, or Copy of
Enrolment Form of the University etc or TAFE College, must accompany the
Application.
Also where applicable, Copy of Qualifications, Certificates etc must be
included with the Application.
The Applicant will be advised of the
amount of Membership Fee required, and processing of the application will
only proceed when this Membership Fee has been received by the Division
Membership Secretary.
Cheques or Australia Post Money Order, for
Membership Fee, to be made out to "Mapping Sciences Institute,
Australia - NSW Division."
The Application
Form for Nomination provides for a Proposer and Seconder, these may be
left blank if there are no MSIA members available or known to the
Applicant.
Alternately,
Applications may be lodged as Image Files and emailed to the divisional membership secretary. PDF,
JPG type files are recommended for acceptance, BUT the total files size of
attachments & email message, must not exceed Two (2) megabytes per
eMail message.
PROCESSING TIME
Applications are assessed by the Division Membership Secretary. Providing
that the Qualifications are not unusual, the material received is scanned,
and the recommendation and image files are transmitted to the MSIA National
Program Manager Membership for acceptance.
Applications with unusual Qualifications may be referred to the Division
Membership Panel for their assessment, prior to transmission to the
National Program Manager Membership.
Membership Grade assessment will always be to the higher grade applicable.
A period of up to two months should be
allowed for all assessments, including that of the MSIA National Program
Manager Membership.
If the National Program Manager Membership has any inquiries to carry out,
this may extend the processing time.
All communication between NSW Division and the MSIA National Program
Manager Membership, is by eMail messages.
Company Membership
As a Company Member of the MSIA, your
organisation can benefit from the following:
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Entitled to
one free full page monochrome advertisement per issue of Journal of Spatial
Science;
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Press releases
may be published as "Company Member News" in Spatial Science;
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Company
Members receive all information from their local Division of the MSIA; and
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Company
Members are eligible to enter for the Hatch/MSIA Technology Award which is
awarded at the biennial conference.
With a mailing list in excess of 1500
throughout Australia and overseas, Spatial Science is an extremely cost
effective vehicle for advertising products and services directly to
professionals involved in cartography, GIS, remote sensing, surveying and
related industries.
For details relating to Company Membership
and the publication Journal of Spatial Science, reference and inquiries
should be made to either:
Graeme Wright
(Editor-in-Chief) Department of Spatial Sciences, Curtin University,
GPO Box U1987, Perth W.A. 6845 (08) 9266 7565 (w); (08) 9266
2703 (fax); email: g.l.wright@curtin.edu.au
Caroline Berryman (Production and
Circulation Manager) at cherryman@swiftdsl.com.au
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