Client: eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality
This project involved the following
- Planning, analysis and logical design of a corporate GIS for the Durban Metro, included re-organising staff structures to provide for the requirements of corporate GIS and an implementation plan for a RDBMS to store spatial and attribute data.
- Data conversion of Municipal financial data from a variety of systems and linking to the cadastral.
- Compilation by capture or conversion of some 450 000 land parcels with addresses to form the formal address database.
- Capture of some 145 000 informal dwellings by GPS and integrating them into the GIS to form the informal address database.
- Analysis, design and implementation of a customised spatial front-end for front counter and spatial data viewing applications.

Description of Actual Servies Provided
- System Analysis: Systems analysis and design. Preparation of implementation plan.
- Database Design: Data analysis, database design of relational spatially enabled database.
- Software Engineering: Application analysis, design and implementation.
- Data Conversion/Capture: Data conversion of municipal financial systems and capture/conversion of cadastral.
- Quality Aassurance: Establishing a quality enabling environment, training monitoring and evaluation of staff and conducting systematic checks.
Professional Staff Provided
- System Analyst
- GIS Specialists
- Software Engineers
- Data Capturers
Number of staff-months: 37