[OSGeo Africa] Chief Surveyor Ggeneral -- View Spatial Data -- Website not working

[Chris]

    Good Morning MIke ,

    Thank you for the upodate

    I do understand that you very kindly make SG data 
    available for copy onto a storage devcice brought into your 
    offices.

    One understands that like death a HDD crash is 
    inevitable.
    However in the sort of environment in which the SG works 
    ( lots of very important and valueable data / information )  
    A HDD crash should be planned for and not bring 
    everything to a standstill.

    Does the SG not have some sort of a RAID or other fault 
    tolerant facility  ?

    I appreciate that the data viewer does not constitute the 
    core / backbone of the SG data structure and is probabaly 
    not that high a priority -- it is however useful to some.

    Thanks

    Chris

      
On 5 Mar 2018 at 6:12, Mike Caister wrote:

> Good morning,
 
> According to CSG, the CSG Map Guide Server hard drive crashed, and is
> currently being working on. No indication has been given as to when the
> service will be restored.
 
> The Office of the CSG states that they apologise for the inconvenience.
 
> Please note that the data displayed on CSG’s MapGuide viewer can be
> acquired in shapefile format from the Office of the CSG, or for each
> province from the respective province’s SG office.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Mike Caister
> 
> Spatial Database Manager
> Survey Technician ST1397
> Office of the Surveyor General: KwaZulu-Natal
> 300 Pietermaritz Street
> PO Box 396
> Pietermaritzburg
> 3200
> 
> Email:    Mike.Caister at drdlr.gov.za<mailto:macaister at sgkzn.gov.za>
> Tel:      033 355 2929
> Fax:      033 394 7610
> 
> 
> 
> From: Africa [mailto:africa-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Tim
> Sutton Sent: 04 March 2018 22:12 To: chris at airphotoafrica.co.za; Africa
> local chapter discussions <africa at lists.osgeo.org> Subject: Re: [OSGeo
> Africa] Chief Surveyor Ggeneral -- View Spatial Data -- Website not
> working
> 
> Hi
> 
> Chris I don’t know anything about what is going on at SG but I can say
> we updated our SG Downloader QGIS plugin to work with the recent changes.
> Just search from in the QGIS plugin manager for:
> 
> SG Diagram Downloader
> A tool for QGIS that will download SG (South African Surveyor General)
> diagrams.
> 
> You need to have a parcels layer which contains SG cadastral ID’s for
> the plugin to work, so I don’t know if it is going to be useful for you
> or not.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Tim
> 
> 
> 
> On 02 Mar 2018, at 20:02, Chris
> <chris at airphotoafrica.co.za<mailto:chris at airphotoafrica.co.za>> wrote:
> 
> 
> A follow up ,
> 
> Apart from the one reply from Nic from 1MAP there has been no answer to my
> original post.
> 
> I have again attempted to access the SG website to view spatial data --
> with the same error message and non-access.
> 
> Surely someone must know what is going on at trhe SG offices ?
> 
> Is the whole SG web ecosystem being re moulded  ?
> 
> Something to do with the R50Million tender to ESRI SA and  AGIZO Solutions
> for the ....
> 
> National Spatial Planing Data Repository ( NSPDR )
> 
> SPIsys appears to be still up and runing ?
> ( However a request for registration there has gone unanswered for two
> weeks now ? )
> 
> ANYONE ?
> 
> CM
> 
> 
> On 27 Feb 2018 at 12:29, Chris wrote:
> 
> >     Greetings All ,
> 
> >     Sometime ago there was some traffic in connection with
> >     IP addresses ( numbers ) to use to access SG website
> 
> >     I have been trying to access the -- view spatial data
> >     section of the site for about two weeks without success.
> 
> >     This is the launch page
> 
> >     http://csg.dla.gov.za/spatial.htm
> 
> >     Always used to work fine for me before using just the
> >     browser.
> 
> >     I find this a very helpful resource ( which some others see
> >     fit to charge for )
> 
> >     Any ideas / suggestions ?
> 
> >     Thanks
> 
> 


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