South African Spatial Data Infrastructure
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Comment: Where? Who? What? You need to explain the basics in a way any reasonably intelligent person would understand. Sionk (talk) 23:12, 7 December 2012 (UTC)
South African Spatial Data Infrastructure (SASDI) is currently being developed by th Committee for Spatial Information (CSI). The CSI was established by the Spatial Data Infrastucture Act in 2003 (Act 54 of 2003) and have a mandate to steer the process of implementing SASDI.
Background
A spatial data infrastructure (SDI) is a data infrastructure implementing a framework of geographic data, metadata, users and tools that are interactively connected in order to use spatial data in an efficient and flexible way. Another definition is the technology, policies, standards, human resources, and related activities necessary to acquire, process, distribute, use, maintain, and preserve spatial data.
The Spatial Data Infrastructure Act, 2003 was passed by Parliament in December 2003, and the President assented to the act in February 2004. The aim of the Spatial Data Infrastructure Act is to provide for the establishment of SASDI in order to regulate the collection, management, maintenance, integration, distribution and utilization of spatial/geographic information. The Act promotes the efficient and effective use of state resources by the sharing of the information among the different spheres of government.[1][2]
Legislation
References
- ^ "NGI South African Spatial Data Infrastructure". NGI. Retrieved 22 November 2012.
- ^ "World Bank SDI Report - Worldwide SDI Development and Outreach". World Bank. Retrieved 22 November 2012.
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