Wathaurung Aboriginal Corporation is using an application called CrestSX to map cultural sites, including sites that are significant for events now and back 25,000 years or more, when the
Wathaurung people first inhabited the Geelong, Ballarat, and the Bellarine Peninsula. The funding was made available through a grant from the William Buckland Foundation that allowed the
Victoria University's Sir Zelman Cowen Centre to work with Iconix to develop a
geographic information system. The system will allow the Wathaurung people to map important sites, control the information, and share the information with land managers, such as catchment management authorities and
Parks Victoria. Some sites are not self-evident. For instance, a
corroboree tree was a meeting place for trading and dances. One red gum tree is one hundred years old and is located in
Buninyong in the middle of a busy residential street. Using the software, they are able "to identify the site, [and] track its condition and management by recording its details and taking photos". Oral histories can be gathered to provide detail about a site's significance. The software has won a
National Trust of Australia heritage award and an award by the City of Ballarat. ==See also==