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Cape Town - Cape Town residents will soon be unable to continue surreptitiously adding to their dwellings.
This is one consequence of the introduction of the new Integrated Spatial Information System (Isis) which the city council is expected to implement within the next few months.
Alderman Marian Nieuwoudt, mayoral committee member for planning and the environment, and responsible for the project, said that Cape Town would in her opinion be the only municipality in the world to have such a seamless transition of property data into financial data available on a single system.
Owing to its complexity, Isis has been in the planning since 2001. Over the past three financial years a total of R70m has been spent on designing, building and implementing the system.
No less than 27 separate data systems had to be reduced to five, and these five then had to be integrated into one. The test phase is currently nearing completion.
Nieuwoudt explains that the system will integrate all property data from, for instance, a decision on an application for land use to its valuation and the sending out of the levy account.
Until now the data has had to be transferred manually between the different systems.
By integrating Isis with the geographic information system (GIS), it will also be possible to compile a geographic overview of all property transactions and land use in Cape Town and respond proactively to them so as to meet infrastructure needs, for instance.
With the aid of aerial photography one will be able to see, for example, where uncontrolled urbanisation is taking place, and where someone either has made additions without submitting plans or has deviated from the plans.
This is one consequence of the introduction of the new Integrated Spatial Information System (Isis) which the city council is expected to implement within the next few months.
Alderman Marian Nieuwoudt, mayoral committee member for planning and the environment, and responsible for the project, said that Cape Town would in her opinion be the only municipality in the world to have such a seamless transition of property data into financial data available on a single system.
Owing to its complexity, Isis has been in the planning since 2001. Over the past three financial years a total of R70m has been spent on designing, building and implementing the system.
No less than 27 separate data systems had to be reduced to five, and these five then had to be integrated into one. The test phase is currently nearing completion.
Nieuwoudt explains that the system will integrate all property data from, for instance, a decision on an application for land use to its valuation and the sending out of the levy account.
Until now the data has had to be transferred manually between the different systems.
By integrating Isis with the geographic information system (GIS), it will also be possible to compile a geographic overview of all property transactions and land use in Cape Town and respond proactively to them so as to meet infrastructure needs, for instance.
With the aid of aerial photography one will be able to see, for example, where uncontrolled urbanisation is taking place, and where someone either has made additions without submitting plans or has deviated from the plans.
- Sake24
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