[OSGeo Africa] Survey of FOSS GIS usage in South Africa

[Thulani Dhlamini]

Hi Gavin

I work for Mpumalanga Tourism and Parks Agency. We have worked with Open Spatial to develop our Tourism Register and Biodiversity Information System.
We have used MapServer to develop our on web mapping and back-end is an Oracle Spatial database. The GIS users still use ESRI for their own desktop projects and those who are familiar with QGIS are using it.

The reason we opted for open source are the general reasons most people will go on open source projects such as TCO , scalability and interoperability. However the general feeling among GIS users is that they are comfortable with ESRI. I assume the reason might be the lack of training in open source technologies.

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Thulani S Dhlamini
Database Administrator
Mpumalanga Tourism and Parks Agency

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From: africa-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:africa-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Gavin Fleming
Sent: 31 August 2012 11:32 AM
To: chapter discussions, Africa
Subject: [OSGeo Africa] Survey of FOSS GIS usage in South Africa

Hi fellow FOSS GISers

I'm conducting a snap survey of FOSS GIS in SA - please respond by Mon 3 Sept! I will use later responses but they won't be guaranteed to make it into the proceedings (deadline 5 Sept).

I'll be presenting a paper at the GISSA Ukubuzana in October with the following abstract:
Free and Open Source GIS Software is being used widely across South Africa in diverse applications. This presentation will showcase a number of projects implemented with FOSS GIS in government, private industry, civil society and other sectors. Case studies will be drawn from various companies, consultants and service providers.
I'd like to showcase what's being done and if I get a big enough response, to compile some stats.

So, please send me some brief information about FOSS GIS work that you are or have been involved with or that you feel we should know about.

I'm looking for work done with FOSS GIS in southern Africa by anyone OR work done by South Africans anywhere in the world.

Any project counts, from a helpful script to a backend database to a big web application to a desktop GIS rollout - anything goes.

Please send roughly the following:

- a brief description
- if web-based and public, a url
- otherwise, send screenshots, publications, etc.
- reasons why you or the client chose to use FOSS GIS
- which FOSS GIS technologies you used

PS: Apologies for the short notice but I was only notified of paper acceptance yesterday.



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regards



Gavin



Gavin Fleming

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