Special Edition JoGIS News Progress June 2016 Communique to all Report City of Johannesburg Department: Group Communication and Marketing 11th Floor, A Block P O Box 1049 Tel: +27 (0) 407 6739 Metropolitan Centre Johannesburg, 158 Civic Boulevard, 2000 Braamfontein 2001 What’s inside the Special Edition: >>> The drive towards excellence ........................................... 02 >>> Data Administration and Mapping ..........................................................06 >>> CGIS Directorate............................................................... 03 >>> Property Information Systems ................................................................. 12 >>> Projects & Customer Services ........................................... 03 >>> System Administration & Development ................................................... 14 CGIS Communique and Events Printed by the City of Johannesburg T- 011 407 7203 / 7494 / 7202 > > > E- [email protected] CGIS GCSS: SHELA & FCM Printing Department Graphs [email protected] The drive towards excellence – a glance into the System Administration and Devlopment Cont. rear view mirror In this special edition we proudly showcase service rating. To maintain excellence, we We continue to ensure the quality of spatial Aerial Imagery the achievements of Corporate Geo- continuously measure our performance data in the City by the maintenance of Informatics (CGIS) over the last five years. through customer rating cards and have run core datasets and new layers as well as The Corporate Geo-Informatics Directorate (CGIS) 26 customer surveys since 2004. the support of the MOEs in supplying and has an extensive colour Orthophoto library for the patial information and the Geographic maintaining service data of the City. A set CoJ jurisdiction area, dating back to 1997. The Information System (GIS) have become Furthermore, it is rewarding to realise that of almost 40 core data layers are currently aerial imagery is updated every three years (budget an indispensable part of our everyday the dedication of the CGIS team has been maintained. permitting) and published on the online map lives. We understand the value of GIS recognised locally as well as internationally. viewer, starting from 2000. Sand how it is helping save resources, making In 2011 CGIS received the Africa Geospatial Our spatial information capture tools for organisations more efficient, supporting Excellence Award for Governance. This was cadastre, street addresses and zoning have The imagery pixel resolution improved with every decision making and creating collaboration added to our previous awards which include been improved and additional verifications acquisition to the latest imagery set (2015) that is and business intelligence across the an international “Special Achievement in have been incorporated. This, together with available at 15cm pixels per square inch. organisation … and the world. We know GIS” award at ESRI’s 26th Annual User various data cleansing projects, ensure a that GIS plays a critical role in urban Conference in San Diego as well as the continuous high standard in the quality of planning, disaster response, crime analysis, second prize in the “Innovative IT Solution” data. Property lineage has been built into conservation monitoring, transport planning category at the South African Public Sector the cadastre and indicates the “mother- and much more. Innovation Awards. child” relationship of properties over time. 3D building models The demand for spatial information has We also went beyond the City’s boundaries Sectional Titles have since 2011 been added increased dramatically and to many of you, to share our lessons learnt with others. to the datasets maintained. A total of more Value add products include 3D building our valued customers, it has become a critical Partnerships were established with the Cities than 12 500 new addresses were allocated models. part of your everyday business activities. of Lilongwe and Addis Ababa. We also due to development applications for new This is what we have worked for and it is received visitors from local municipalities townships, subdivisions or consolidations as LIDAR data (4 points per m²), 25 cm rewarding to realise that the enthusiasm of (Sol Plaatjies, Ekurhuleni, Emfuleni and well as the naming and renaming of existing derived contours, 8 Band multispectral the Corporate Geo-Informatics team and Sebokeng), from Africa (Botswana, streets. The renaming to Albertina Sisulu imagery and oblique imagery. the continuous marketing and drive towards Mozambique, Ethiopia, Guinea, Nigeria, had the largest impact, with more than an improved, world-class spatial information Cameroon, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Ghana, 1 500 new addresses, stretching over a service for its customers is paying off. Cameroon, Uganda and Madagascar) as length of more than 32 km. As from May well as the UK, Austria, USA and a Ramallah 2016, the zoning information is captured At CGIS we believe in getting the basics right Palestine delegation, all keen to learn how and maintained as an attribute to a property. and building on this foundation. This has CGIS is running its enterprise GIS. The been our recipe for success over the years City of Johannesburg’s GIS knowledge was he Land Information System (LIS) and clients and others in the GIS community furthermore shared through presentations project probably had the biggest have come to appreciate our customer at national and international conferences impact on the spatial information focus, quality data, innovative solutions and in Kempton Park, Pretoria, Johannesburg, environment in the City yet. It has professional staff. Cape Town, Rotterdam (Netherlands) Tchanged the way in which the City operates and Lisbon (Portugal). To learn more and has replaced the old “silo mentality” with With the implementation of our skills and support innovative solutions, CGIS a new operating model where departments transfer and staff rotation plan as well as sent representatives to the Esri GIS User work together across organisational Geolis on vBlock training and award programmes, we created Conferences in Split (Croatia) and San Diego boundaries to form the Property Value Chain opportunities and empowered staff to deliver (USA), including a site visit to the New York (PVC). The LIS is now the single, integrated With the deployment of the new Data an even better service to our customers. Since offices. source of property related information in Centre at the Metro Centre premises, the 2011 eight CGIS employees have successfully the City and all other systems (including the GeoLIS was identified as one of the first participated in the rotation plan, 105 skills Over the years the Directorate has been Billing system) feed off this source. projects to be included on the new state-of- have been documented and transferred to an active promoter of the use of GIS and the-art vBlock server environment. 174 employees and a further 35 employees has raised GIS awareness amongst Council Our customers reap the benefits in terms of have received subsidised education. Two employees, Councillors, external clients, access to information as well as improved GIS Specialists were seconded to CGIS from teachers and learners. turnaround times for development other City departments for skills transfer. applications. Having a spatially enabled We assisted nine matric pupils with their e have celebrated twelve property database in place creates the matric Geography assignments and have International GIS days every opportunity for adding strategic value supervised post-graduate Geo-Informatics November since 2004 and through spatial analysis. Through the LIS, the students from surrounding universities with used these opportunities by number of property information queries has their research projects related to the City. Wopening our doors to create awareness been reduced from more than 13 300 in 2011 We have also trained 30 interns from the of the products and services of CGIS, to below 500 in 2015. An average of more University of Johannesburg and 11 from the demonstrating the value of GIS and spatial than 62 900 deeds transfer records have been The new vBlock server infrastructure facilitated the upgrade of the GIS data capturing environment from IBM DB2 to Microsoft SQL. Department of Rural Development. information for decision-making in all walks processed annually, with a total of almost The upgrade also allowed for the following: of life. Through our eight youth outreach 315 000 records since 2011. Our customer base has grown from a programmes we have touched the lives of • GIS Desktop software upgrade from version 9.3.1 to version 10.2.2 and mere 1 200 in 2004 to almost 19 000 in almost 5 000 learners from 144 schools by • GUI upgrades (graphic user interface) 2015 and our customers have consistently introducing them to a hands-on experience • Go-live date: 1 April 2016. awarded us with a four to five star customer of GIS and related career opportunities. CGIS Special Edition - 2 CGIS Special Edition - 15 e take pride in our imagery On a more technical note, the GIS data per annum is believed to be exceeded. System Administration and Development products, which have capturing environment has been upgraded to Once again, we would like to thank you, over the years matured to Microsoft SQL and is now hosted on the City’s our customers, for your loyal support, encouragement and guidance in helping us include colour Orthophotos state-of-the-art vBlock server environment. Online Map