Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) Continuously Operating Reference Station (CORS) are accepted as a part of the fundamental infrastructure for spatial sciences. The challenge is to ensure that real time GNSS CORS networks continue to deliver high accuracy satellite positioning services as a utility that is viable operationally, feasible for the end user, robust, reliable year after year and fit for purpose.

Victoria’s cooperative real time GNSS CORS network Vicmap Position - GPSnet (GPSnet) is facilitated, coordinated and operated by the Spatial Information Infrastructure Branch in Victoria’s Department of Sustainability and Environment (DSE). Victoria has funded a multi-million dollar project, Positioning Regional Victoria (PRV), to expand and densify GPSnet infrastructure state-wide to coordinate a whole-of-industry approach to the development and investment in a homogenous, ubiquitous positioning utility.

Within a national and jurisdiction spatial policy context, this paper presents an approach adopted by DSE, reviewing the strategy and development of GPSnet, the current status of the Positioning Regional Victoria project and the benefits for GPSnet users across Victoria.