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Web mapping: making geoinformation more widely available Three innovative web-mapping pages have been included on the GIS Centre's web mapping facility at http://www.hsrc.ac.za/gis/webMapping/dataSets.html. The Ageing Minimum Data Set allows people to look in more detail at the elderly population in South Africa. It includes detailed demographics from the 1996 census as well as information on facilities that serve elderly people including: retirement homes, adult basic education and training centres, schools, clinics and hospitals and police stations. Recently, the results and publication of this project was presented to the Department of Health and several stakeholder organizations. The name of the publication is “Ageing in South Africa: Report on the minimum data set, March 2002”. Need to know more about the location and information about arts and cultural facilities in South Africa? Visit the Arts and Culture GIS for South Africa. It is the only known web page that combines the ability to view maps, photographs, text and even video on arts and culture facilities via the web as well as allowing people from the industry to update information on their own facilities using the web. The GIS Centre collected the information for the Department of Arts and Culture and Azilla designed the technology. Working with the Unilever Institute of Strategic Management at the University of Cape Town, the GIS Centre provided much of the data for the South African Marketers Map web page. This ‘geo-visualisation’ web page provides demographic and Living Standard Measure (LSM) data to subscribers and tried to encourage marketers to get a much better understanding of the distribution and characteristics of consumers in the country. The GIS Centre is also planning to have its crime mapping web page up soon, which will provide detailed crime statistics at a police station level for the entire country.
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