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<div class="moz-cite-prefix"><font face="Times New Roman">Gavin,<br>
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With reference to the statement "</font><font face="Times New
Roman">Ultimately it will become illegal to do paid GIS work
without being registered.."<br>
<br>
This is not entirely true, while registration should always be
encouraged and supported, the reality is that only certain
things will get reserved. The reason for this is that Council
does not act to provide jobs for people - its purpose is to
"protect the public" and those words are critical, since one
will have to show some health, safety, public interest or
imminent danger to the public reason before reserving work. Any
broad categorisation of work reservation will fail. It will have
to be a specific defined activity such as for example;<br>
<br>
1) submitting metadata in terms of SDI. - reasoning could be
that somebody must be accountable if that data is wrong. The
public could have spent vast sums in acquiring such data and its
in the public interest to ensure people are legally liable to
the public. This would not necessarily preclude other
professionals from doing this as they too are also accountable
and liable. To reserve something exclusively for GIS
practitioners only and exclude other professionally registered
people (plato (PLS or other) or other statutory council
registered person) one would have to narrow down the exact
expertise that only a GIS professional would have and nobody
else.<br>
<br>
It becomes clear that a lot of thought has to go into work
reservation and even then one may be sharing it in part with
other professions.<br>
<br>
Food for thought.<br>
<br>
Regards<br>
<br>
Peter<br>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Peter Newmarch
Professional Land Surveyor
4Y GeoInformatics Pty Ltd
Tel : +27 31 5642856
Fax : +27 31 5643074
Mobile : +27 82 5705859
eMail : <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:newmarch@land-surveyors.com">newmarch@land-surveyors.com</a> </pre>
On 2014/01/16 10:51 AM, Gavin Fleming wrote:<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:52D79D76.1040705@afrispatial.co.za"
type="cite">Hi all
<br>
<br>
I'm at the GISSA national council meeting and professional
registration is under discussion.
<br>
<br>
The message: take professional registration seriously and get
registered, no matter what area of GIS you practice in. Ultimately
it will become illegal to do paid GIS work without being
registered...
<br>
<br>
For the Government FOSS policy to happen then, it means that all
we FOSS GIS advocates must ensure we're registered so we're not
excluded from government work. Professional registration is
already required for government tenders and posts.
<br>
<br>
For those of you with fifteen years experience up to Dec 2012, the
Grandfather clause for Professional GISc Practitioner is opening
up again shortly - take this opportunity. Don't ask me for
details, keep watching GISSA, PLATO, PositionIT, etc.
<br>
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<div class="moz-txt-sig"><span class="moz-txt-tag">-- <br>
</span>regards
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Gavin
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