[OSGeo Africa] SASDI.GOV.ZA - Where is the data?

[Tim Sutton]

Thanks Marlene

If you are interested, I would be more than happy to do a call with you with some thoughts on how to improve the portal to make it usable and useful. Currently I am struggling with even the most simple operations like finding the proper CSW end point so I can add it as a service in the metasearch catalogue search tool in QGIS. And doing a simple search for ‘roads’ in the web search UI just times out.

Any apologies, I am not trying to come across as hypercritical here, I am just enthusiastic to use the services and the site isn’t providing me with obvious workflows to do that.

Regards

Tim



> On 21 Dec 2019, at 21:08, Marilene Heunis <marilene.heunis at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi Tim
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> Try the data catalogue link under the Quick links section to search for data/ metadata.
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> Quick Links
> SASDI EMC (on SAEON) <http://www.sasdi.net/>
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> Regards
> Marilene
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> On Sat, 21 Dec 2019, 11:31 Tim Sutton, <tim at kartoza.com <mailto:tim at kartoza.com>> wrote:
> Hi all
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> So nice to see the SA Spatial Data Infrastructure ‘go live’.
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> http://www.sasdi.gov.za <http://www.sasdi.gov.za/>
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> There are a lot of officious looking documents on there by I have no clue how to search for and obtain geospatial data there. Can anyone enlighten me?
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> And if anyone from from the SASDI is watching, please contact me if you want to bring the SDI into the 21st century…..let the landing page be a map with a function that lets me browse available datasets, view them in the map, connect to them using OGC web services and download them to my local machine. Those should be the primary use cases….then hide away all the other stuff that is on the landing page because it is probably of zero to very low interest to 99.99% of your users.
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> Season’s greetings!
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> Regards
> 
> Tim
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> Tim Sutton
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> Co-founder: Kartoza
> Ex Project chair: QGIS.org <http://qgis.org/>
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Tim Sutton

Co-founder: Kartoza
Ex Project chair: QGIS.org

Visit http://kartoza.com <http://kartoza.com/> to find out about open source:

Desktop GIS programming services
Geospatial web development
GIS Training
Consulting Services

Skype: timlinux 
IRC: timlinux on #qgis at freenode.net

I'd love to connect. Here's my calendar link <https://calendly.com/timlinux> to make finding time easy.

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