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Articles | Volume 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/ica-proc-2-19-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/ica-proc-2-19-2019
10 Jul 2019
 | 10 Jul 2019

Collaborative Custodianship through Collaborative Cloud Mapping: Challenges and Opportunities

Serena Coetzee, Jacques Du Preez, Franz-Josef Behr, Antony K. Cooper, Martijn Odijk, Siegfried Vanlishout, Raf Buyle, Markus Jobst, Maroale Chauke, Nicolene Fourie, Peter Schmitz, and Frikan Erwee

Keywords: SDI, spatial data infrastructure, custodianship, collaborative mapping, cloud

Abstract. Collaborative custodianship refers to an arrangement where a number of custodians work together to produce integrated datasets for a spatial data infrastructure (SDI), e.g. local authorities contributing address or street data to a national SDI dataset. Collaborative cloud mapping allows for ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand, configured and tailor-made mapping with resources shared between various entities collaborating on a specific initiative, such as an SDI or for disaster management. This paper presents the results of a workshop in South Africa during which case studies from the Netherlands, Belgium and Austria of collaborative custodianship of address data were presented, and OpenStreetMap as a case study of collaborative cloud mapping. Subsequently, challenges and opportunities for implementing similar initiatives in the context of the South African SDI were debated in break-away sessions. The results from these sessions were analysed using the PESTEL framework.

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