[OSGeo Africa] Is Vulindlela e-cadastre FOSS?

[Tim Sutton]

Hi

On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 9:57 AM, S Coetzer <geotech.sarel at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
>
That you are following OGC standards is great.


>
> 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?



That assumes you ship the data with the source right? Is there any utility
in making the platform available without the data? I think that was what
Gavin was after....


Regards

Tim


>
> 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
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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
>>
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