<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"><style type="text/css">.style1 {font-family: "Times New Roman";}</style></head><body><div>Yes sir.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div id="composer_signature"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">Mervin Naik <br>Chief GIS Professional <br>Geospatial Information Services Directorate<br>Department of Cooperate Governance and Traditional Affairs<br>Contact no.: 082 806 4083</div><div><br></div><div style="font-size:100%;color:#000000"><!-- originalMessage --><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Adi Eyal <adi@openup.org.za> </div><div>Date: 2018/10/04 21:40 (GMT+07:00) </div><div>To: Adrian Frith <adrian@adrianfrith.com>, Africa local chapter discussions <africa@lists.osgeo.org> </div><div>Subject: Re: [OSGeo Africa] Custodian of provincial shapefiles </div><div><br></div></div><div dir="ltr">So, are we relying on printed pages in the gazettes to define the boundaries of our municipalities, districts and provinces? Are the shapefiles on the MDB website the definitive source?</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Oct 4, 2018 at 3:57 PM Adrian Frith <<a href="mailto:adrian@adrianfrith.com">adrian@adrianfrith.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi Adi,<div><br></div><div>The constitution (Schedule 1A) defines the provinces by reference to maps of the district and metro municipalities, which were published in the Gov Gazette by the Municipal Demarcation Board. So the closest thing to an official custodian would be the MDB and its shapefile of district municipalities at <a href="http://www.demarcation.org.za/site/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/2016-Boundaries-District.zip" target="_blank">http://www.demarcation.org.za/site/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/2016-Boundaries-District.zip</a> from which you can assemble the provinces.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Adrian<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, 4 Oct 2018 at 14:18 Adi Eyal <<a href="mailto:adi@openup.org.za" target="_blank">adi@openup.org.za</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi All<div><br></div><div>Who is the official custodian of the provincial boundary data?</div><div><br></div><div>Regards</div><div>Adi<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="m_-516256315446783179m_4745731920571382967gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Adi Eyal<br>Director<br>OpenUp<br>Promoting informed decision-making<br><br>phone: <a href="tel:+27%2078%20014%202469" value="+27780142469" target="_blank">+27 78 014 2469</a><br>skype: adieyalcas<br>linkedin: <a href="http://za.linkedin.com/pub/dir/Adi/Eyal" target="_blank">http://za.linkedin.com/pub/dir/Adi/Eyal</a><br>web: <a href="http://www.openup.org.za" target="_blank">http://www.openup.org.za</a><br>twitter: @soapsudtycoon<br><br>Follow us on twitter at @OpenUpSA<br>Sign up for Naked Data, our weekly round-up of what's happening<br>locally and internationally in data journalism and data visualisation.<br>Register here: <a href="https://openup.org.za/nakeddata.html" target="_blank">https://openup.org.za/nakeddata.html</a></div><div>Also check out our data storytelling short courses: <a href="https://openup.org.za/courses.html" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-size:12.8px" target="_blank">https://openup.org.za/trainup/</a><br></div></div></div></div></div>
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</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Adi Eyal<br>Director<br>OpenUp<br>Promoting informed decision-making<br><br>phone: +27 78 014 2469<br>skype: adieyalcas<br>linkedin: <a href="http://za.linkedin.com/pub/dir/Adi/Eyal" target="_blank">http://za.linkedin.com/pub/dir/Adi/Eyal</a><br>web: <a href="http://www.openup.org.za" target="_blank">http://www.openup.org.za</a><br>twitter: @soapsudtycoon<br><br>Follow us on twitter at @OpenUpSA<br>Sign up for Naked Data, our weekly round-up of what's happening<br>locally and internationally in data journalism and data visualisation.<br>Register here: <a href="https://openup.org.za/nakeddata.html" target="_blank">https://openup.org.za/nakeddata.html</a></div><div>Also check out our data storytelling short courses: <a href="https://openup.org.za/courses.html" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-size:12.8px" target="_blank">https://openup.org.za/trainup/</a><br></div></div></div>
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