Tracks4Africa

'Live Map' page on Tracks4Africa site, zoomed into Moremi, Botswana.

AfriSpatial, along with Linfiniti and Webtide, have built a new website for Tracks4Africa, incorporating their previous Tracks4Africa and Padkos sites. A major new feature is online web maps that showcase the rich Tracks4Africa data set normally seen on a GPS or Google Earth. The community-contributed, routable tracks and points of interest from across Africa are fully integrated into the site. We are working with Tracks4Africa staff and systems to further integrate their workflow with the database and website. The Tracks4Africa system is FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) from the ground up, including Ubuntu, PostGIS, Mapnik, MapServer, GeoDjango, OpenLayers, JQuery.

Nairobi Convention Clearinghouse (NCCH)

Advanced search screen on the Nairobi Convention Clearinghouse

Gavin Fleming of AfriSpatial implemented the South African portal of the Nairobi Convention Clearinghouse (NCCH) for SAEON (South African Environmental Observation Network during 2010. It is a central place to search for and browse metadata describing mainly marine and coastal data in the western Indian Ocean. In many instances the metadata records contain links to WMS services or downloads. The portal consists of GeoNetwork OpenSource on a PostgreSQL  database and with the SAEON GeoServer instance as its main source of OGC WMS (web map service) layers.