Indiya Geospatial Information

Indiya Geospatial (formerly Kamilaroi Geospatial) is an indigenous owned survey company that works in partnership with the experience and expertise of Land Surveys, operating throughout offices around Australia including Karratha, Port Hedland, Darwin, Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne and its head office based in Perth. It is Australia’s only national Supply Nation certified surveying company, creating a unique skill set amongst Indigenous businesses. Having a national footprint allows the company to offer a diverse range of employment and training opportunities to Indigenous people. The company is committed to engaging other Indigenous businesses to provide quality services and support. Indiya Geospatial acknowledges the traditional owners of country throughout Australia and recognises their continuing connection to land, waters and community. We pay our respect to them and their cultures; and to elders both past and present. Indiya is a word derived from the indigenous Nhanda language, the region from which our Managing Director Lawrence Hillary is a descendent of, and translates to the word ‘star’. Geospatial, as described in the Cambridge Dictionary, relates to information that identifies where particular features are on the earth's surface, such as oceans and mountains. Astronomy and the night sky has played a significant role in the traditions of Aboriginal people for tens of thousands of years, being used amongst other things to predict changing seasons and the availability of resources. Aboriginal people have also turned to the skies for many years to aid in their navigation, using the stars to help guide their travels. Patterns of stars, referred to as star maps, used as a means of teaching navigation outside of one’s own local country showed the waypoints on the route, usually waterholes or turning places on the landscape, and were used in a similar way to navigating via GPS. Hence our name Indiya Geospatial, referring to ‘mapping the earth’.