<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 05 Oct 2018, at 13:30, Adi Eyal <<a href="mailto:adi@openup.org.za" class="">adi@openup.org.za</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">I suspect that there isn't an explicit auditable data governance process that the MDB uses when uploading shapefiles to their website. If that is the case then anyone who has access to the website, say a web developer, has the power to change municipal, and by extension, provincial boundaries.</span></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">one hopes that the shapefiles on the MDB website are just convenient exports from a secure, properly managed spatial database. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">And the municipal boundaries are defined by aggregating property boundaries and the cadastre is strictly defined so it would be difficult to mess with them. </div></body></html>