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<span style=" font-size:12pt">Good Morning MIke ,</span></font></div>
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<span style=" font-size:12pt">Thank you for the upodate</span></font></div>
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<span style=" font-size:12pt">I do understand that you very kindly make SG data
available for copy onto a storage devcice brought into your
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<span style=" font-size:12pt">One understands that like death a HDD crash is
inevitable.</span></font></div>
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<span style=" font-size:12pt">However in the sort of environment in which the SG works
( lots of very important and valueable data / information )
A HDD crash should be planned for and not bring
everything to a standstill.</span></font></div>
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<span style=" font-size:12pt">Does the SG not have some sort of a RAID or other fault
tolerant facility ?</span></font></div>
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<span style=" font-size:12pt">I appreciate that the data viewer does not constitute the
core / backbone of the SG data structure and is probabaly
not that high a priority -- it is however useful to some.</span></font></div>
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<span style=" font-size:12pt">Thanks</span></font></div>
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<span style=" font-size:12pt">Chris</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Microsoft Sans Serif"><span style=" font-size:12pt">On 5 Mar 2018 at 6:12, Mike Caister wrote:</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Microsoft Sans Serif" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt"><i>> Good morning,</i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Microsoft Sans Serif" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt"><i> </i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Microsoft Sans Serif" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt"><i>> According to CSG, the CSG Map Guide Server hard drive crashed, and is</i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Microsoft Sans Serif" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt"><i>> currently being working on. No indication has been given as to when the</i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Microsoft Sans Serif" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt"><i>> service will be restored.</i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Microsoft Sans Serif" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt"><i> </i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Microsoft Sans Serif" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt"><i>> The Office of the CSG states that they apologise for the inconvenience.</i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Microsoft Sans Serif" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt"><i> </i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Microsoft Sans Serif" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt"><i>> Please note that the data displayed on CSG’s MapGuide viewer can be</i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Microsoft Sans Serif" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt"><i>> acquired in shapefile format from the Office of the CSG, or for each</i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Microsoft Sans Serif" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt"><i>> province from the respective province’s SG office.</i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Microsoft Sans Serif" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt"><i>> </i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Microsoft Sans Serif" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt"><i>> Regards,</i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Microsoft Sans Serif" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt"><i>> </i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Microsoft Sans Serif" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt"><i>> Mike Caister</i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Microsoft Sans Serif" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt"><i>> </i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Microsoft Sans Serif" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt"><i>> Spatial Database Manager</i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Microsoft Sans Serif" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt"><i>> Survey Technician ST1397</i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Microsoft Sans Serif" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt"><i>> Office of the Surveyor General: KwaZulu-Natal</i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Microsoft Sans Serif" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt"><i>> 300 Pietermaritz Street</i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Microsoft Sans Serif" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt"><i>> PO Box 396</i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Microsoft Sans Serif" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt"><i>> Pietermaritzburg</i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Microsoft Sans Serif" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt"><i>> 3200</i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Microsoft Sans Serif" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt"><i>> </i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Microsoft Sans Serif" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt"><i>> Email: Mike.Caister@drdlr.gov.za<mailto:macaister@sgkzn.gov.za></i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Microsoft Sans Serif" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt"><i>> Tel: 033 355 2929</i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Microsoft Sans Serif" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt"><i>> Fax: 033 394 7610</i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Microsoft Sans Serif" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt"><i>> </i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Microsoft Sans Serif" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt"><i>> </i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Microsoft Sans Serif" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt"><i>> </i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Microsoft Sans Serif" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt"><i>> From: Africa [mailto:africa-bounces@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Tim</i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Microsoft Sans Serif" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt"><i>> Sutton Sent: 04 March 2018 22:12 To: chris@airphotoafrica.co.za; Africa</i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Microsoft Sans Serif" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt"><i>> local chapter discussions <africa@lists.osgeo.org> Subject: Re: [OSGeo</i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Microsoft Sans Serif" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt"><i>> Africa] Chief Surveyor Ggeneral -- View Spatial Data -- Website not</i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Microsoft Sans Serif" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt"><i>> working</i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Microsoft Sans Serif" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt"><i>> </i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Microsoft Sans Serif" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt"><i>> Hi</i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Microsoft Sans Serif" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt"><i>> </i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Microsoft Sans Serif" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt"><i>> Chris I don’t know anything about what is going on at SG but I can say</i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Microsoft Sans Serif" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt"><i>> we updated our SG Downloader QGIS plugin to work with the recent changes.</i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Microsoft Sans Serif" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt"><i>> Just search from in the QGIS plugin manager for:</i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Microsoft Sans Serif" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt"><i>> </i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Microsoft Sans Serif" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt"><i>> SG Diagram Downloader</i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Microsoft Sans Serif" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt"><i>> A tool for QGIS that will download SG (South African Surveyor General)</i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Microsoft Sans Serif" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt"><i>> diagrams.</i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Microsoft Sans Serif" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt"><i>> </i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Microsoft Sans Serif" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt"><i>> You need to have a parcels layer which contains SG cadastral ID’s for</i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Microsoft Sans Serif" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt"><i>> the plugin to work, so I don’t know if it is going to be useful for you</i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Microsoft Sans Serif" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt"><i>> or not.</i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Microsoft Sans Serif" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt"><i>> </i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Microsoft Sans Serif" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt"><i>> Regards</i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Microsoft Sans Serif" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt"><i>> </i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Microsoft Sans Serif" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt"><i>> Tim</i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Microsoft Sans Serif" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt"><i>> </i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Microsoft Sans Serif" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt"><i>> </i></span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Microsoft Sans Serif" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt"><i>> On 02 Mar 2018, at 20:02, Chris</i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Microsoft Sans Serif" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt"><i>> <chris@airphotoafrica.co.za<mailto:chris@airphotoafrica.co.za>> wrote:</i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Microsoft Sans Serif" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt"><i>> </i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Microsoft Sans Serif" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt"><i>> </i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Microsoft Sans Serif" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt"><i>> A follow up ,</i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Microsoft Sans Serif" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt"><i>> </i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Microsoft Sans Serif" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt"><i>> Apart from the one reply from Nic from 1MAP there has been no answer to my</i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Microsoft Sans Serif" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt"><i>> original post.</i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Microsoft Sans Serif" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt"><i>> </i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Microsoft Sans Serif" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt"><i>> I have again attempted to access the SG website to view spatial data --</i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Microsoft Sans Serif" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt"><i>> with the same error message and non-access.</i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Microsoft Sans Serif" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt"><i>> </i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Microsoft Sans Serif" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt"><i>> Surely someone must know what is going on at trhe SG offices ?</i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Microsoft Sans Serif" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt"><i>> </i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Microsoft Sans Serif" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt"><i>> Is the whole SG web ecosystem being re moulded ?</i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Microsoft Sans Serif" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt"><i>> </i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Microsoft Sans Serif" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt"><i>> Something to do with the R50Million tender to ESRI SA and AGIZO Solutions</i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Microsoft Sans Serif" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt"><i>> for the ....</i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Microsoft Sans Serif" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt"><i>> </i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Microsoft Sans Serif" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt"><i>> National Spatial Planing Data Repository ( NSPDR )</i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Microsoft Sans Serif" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt"><i>> </i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Microsoft Sans Serif" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt"><i>> SPIsys appears to be still up and runing ?</i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Microsoft Sans Serif" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt"><i>> ( However a request for registration there has gone unanswered for two</i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Microsoft Sans Serif" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt"><i>> weeks now ? )</i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Microsoft Sans Serif" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt"><i>> </i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Microsoft Sans Serif" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt"><i>> ANYONE ?</i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Microsoft Sans Serif" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt"><i>> </i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Microsoft Sans Serif" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt"><i>> CM</i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Microsoft Sans Serif" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt"><i>> </i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Microsoft Sans Serif" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt"><i>> </i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Microsoft Sans Serif" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt"><i>> On 27 Feb 2018 at 12:29, Chris wrote:</i></span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Microsoft Sans Serif" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt"><i>> > Greetings All ,</i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Microsoft Sans Serif" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt"><i>> </i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Microsoft Sans Serif" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt"><i>> > Sometime ago there was some traffic in connection with</i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Microsoft Sans Serif" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt"><i>> > IP addresses ( numbers ) to use to access SG website</i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Microsoft Sans Serif" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt"><i>> </i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Microsoft Sans Serif" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt"><i>> > I have been trying to access the -- view spatial data</i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Microsoft Sans Serif" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt"><i>> > section of the site for about two weeks without success.</i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Microsoft Sans Serif" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt"><i>> </i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Microsoft Sans Serif" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt"><i>> > This is the launch page</i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Microsoft Sans Serif" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt"><i>> </i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Microsoft Sans Serif" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt"><i>> > http://csg.dla.gov.za/spatial.htm</i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Microsoft Sans Serif" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt"><i>> </i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Microsoft Sans Serif" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt"><i>> > Always used to work fine for me before using just the</i></span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Microsoft Sans Serif" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt"><i>> </i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Microsoft Sans Serif" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt"><i>> > I find this a very helpful resource ( which some others see</i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Microsoft Sans Serif" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt"><i>> > fit to charge for )</i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Microsoft Sans Serif" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt"><i>> </i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Microsoft Sans Serif" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt"><i>> > Any ideas / suggestions ?</i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Microsoft Sans Serif" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt"><i>> </i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Microsoft Sans Serif" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt"><i>> > Thanks</i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Microsoft Sans Serif" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt"><i>> </i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Microsoft Sans Serif" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt"><i>> </i></span></font></div>
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