[OSGeo Africa] Is Vulindlela e-cadastre FOSS?

[S Coetzer]

Hi

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?

By following OGC standards there would be no need to get source code, you
could write your own application accepting WMS/WFS layers.

And use an in-house or outsourced developer to modify and contribute to the
project?
Because of the wide spectrum of users we have to cater for a certain level
of security, this should be applied to every layer of the development stack.
The Vulindlela development stack is a "corporate" stack with strong
authentication mechanism and its not open for any developer to code, think
in the lines of a banking application.
Vulindlela administers the entire purchase transaction of a property which
hosts very sensitive user data. Would you like a programmer to access your
ID, tax number, banking details and personal data?

I need to get authority to display the various components of the stack, it
would make you understand the decision we made to go the Oracle route, none
the less still adhering to open standards. Oracle provides us an entire
integrated development environment from database, middleware, applications
and servers all under one vendor.

Im a avid open source fanatic and push for open source everyday. The open
source thinking gets people and government officials out of this "spoon fed
believe the vendor" sales talk but a combination of both makes for an
interesting future for example, Oracle bought Mysql and is using Linux as
one of their stacks which Im using as a development stack.


Anyway, let me know if you have more questions or concerns.


Regards,



*Sarel Coetzer*

GIS Specialist/Developer

Systems Engineering



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On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 2:07 PM, Gavin Fleming <gavin at afrispatial.co.za>wrote:

>  On 05/09/2012 06:46, S Coetzer wrote:
>
>
> Im an Oracle Spatial Developer for Gijima working on the Vulindlela
> project
> <http://eepublishers.co.za/article/mmuso-riba-107-02-vulindlela-project.html>
> We are essentially developing software to automate the administration of
> the South African Cadastre by integrating Deeds and Chief Surveyor General
> business processses.
> 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.
>
> What we are definitely following is OGC standards (for whats its worth).
>
>
> Thanks for this, Sarel
>
> It's good to know some FOSS tools and open standards are being used in a
> big government project.
>
> 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?
>
> If it's not FOSS, why not?
>
> And can you shed any light on why Oracle was chosen over PostGIS?
>
> Gavin
>
> --
> regards
>
> Gavin
>
> Gavin Fleminghttp://afrispatial.co.za
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> c: 0845965680
> f: 0866164820
>
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