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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 05/09/2012 06:46, S Coetzer wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:CAMmr+FF4o=1CerEqrjGZG2cLaPsQntqoevPFazOOF2VKmQvLcQ@mail.gmail.com"
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Im an Oracle Spatial Developer for Gijima working on the <a
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href="http://eepublishers.co.za/article/mmuso-riba-107-02-vulindlela-project.html">Vulindlela
project </a><br>
We are essentially developing software to automate the
administration of the South African Cadastre by integrating Deeds
and Chief Surveyor General business processses.<br>
The spatial module will contain several open source products such
as GDAL for importing and exporting spatial layers into various
formats and Openlayers & GeoExt to support client-side mapping
functions.<br>
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What we are definitely following is OGC standards (for whats its
worth).</blockquote>
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Thanks for this, Sarel<br>
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It's good to know some FOSS tools and open standards are being used
in a big government project. <br>
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The big question however, is this: Is the whole Vulindlela project
itself FOSS according to the government FOSS policy? In other words,
could someone at a municipality or surveyor's office get the source
code and set up their own instance of Vulindlela's e-Cadastre? And
use an in-house or outsourced developer to modify and contribute to
the project?<br>
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If it's not FOSS, why not?<br>
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And can you shed any light on why Oracle was chosen over PostGIS?<br>
<br>
Gavin<br>
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regards
Gavin
Gavin Fleming
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://afrispatial.co.za">http://afrispatial.co.za</a>
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