[OSGeo Africa] Ideas on writing a petition to access municipal spatial data

[Mlamuli Vundla]

Good day Colleagues 

I’m looking for  Azoning shapefile of Overstrand municipality in the Western Cape and shapefile showing privately owned land and municipal owned land .

Kind regards 

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> On 15 Feb 2018, at 12:35, Gavin Fleming <gavinjfleming at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi all
> 
> 'user pays' and 'cost recovery' are by law not applicable to public data in SA. Custodians of public data are allowed to charge a minimal fee for making the data available (such as writing a DVD) but not for the data. An example of a policy in this respect is https://www.westerncape.gov.za/text/2013/September/draft-pricing-of-spatial-info-policy.pdf.
> 
> And the economic benefits to the country of making the data free to the public without restrictions on use far outweigh the cost of capture and maintaining the data. 
> 
> And it’s one thing to make the data free, another to make it accessible. 
> 
> Some local efforts to make data accessible:
> 
> http://data.gov.za/
> http://southafrica.opendataforafrica.org/
> http://opendata.capetown.gov.za/
> https://wazimap.co.za/
> 
> A group to collaborate with (were Code4SA): https://openup.org.za/ 
> 
> Gavin
> 
> 
>> On 15 Feb 2018, at 09:20, Sindile Bidla <sindile.bidla at geoilocate.co.za> wrote:
>> 
>> Dear List,
>> 
>> Most municipalities in the country are making it difficult to access spatial data that has been paid for through our taxes:
>> 1. selling of spatial data
>> 2. signing data agreements that prevent reuse
>> 3. providing access to spatial data only if conducting a municipal project
>> 
>> I am proposing that we start a petition in this regard, because government policy is quite clear with regard to access to spatial data.
>> 
>> What I would like ideas on is:
>> 1. is there appetite from the community in this regard?
>> 2. should we have a single petition which will be sent to individual municipalities and key government department?
>> 3. is there an online platform that we could use?
>> 4. any other idea.
>> 
>> Thank you.
>> 
>> 
>> Sindile XJ Bidla
>> 
>> Geoilocate
>> p:
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>> a:
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>>  
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>> w:
>> www.geoilocate.co.za
>> 
>> 
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