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Pretoria: Surveyor-General Office

GauScan Project (1996 - 1997)

This project focused on the scanning of erf diagrams, general plans and sectional title plans. The project officially started on 21 February 1996 with some cleaning and numbering and indexing staff. The scanning hardware and software only arrived on 4 March 1996 which is when the scanning and quality control processes began. The project ended on 27 March 1997.

This project employed approximately 28 contractors (this number varied as the workload increased or decreased) for the project time-period. The contractors were divided into three time-slots for the project, namely:

  • Messengers, indexing and final quality control staff worked a full day shift i.e. 8.5 hours
  • Scanning and quality control staff worked a half day morning shift i.e. 6 hours
  • Scanning and quality control staff worked a half day afternoon shift i.e. 6 hours

These contractors were representative of the South African population in that at least two thirds are from previously disadvantaged communities.

The total project time for this project was 11 months.

Gau-FarmScan Project (1998 - 1999)

This project focused on the scanning of farm diagrams and sectional title plans. The project officially started in September 1998 and ended in March 1999.

The Pretoria office had to scan A3 and A2 farms diagrams as well as the outstanding sectional title plans. The A2 farm diagrams were found to present problems during the scanning process as they were too large for A3 scanners and thus tested on different A0 scanner configurations. These diagrams are drawn on very thick paper and have binding strips attached to them. The binding strip, being of a different material, causes the diagram to "corrugate" and this produces a completely unacceptable image. After investigation it was found that it was better to photostat these diagrams and then scan them.

This project employed approximately 21 contractors and 3 Surveyor General personnel.

These contractors were representative of the South African population in that at least two thirds are from previously disadvantaged communities.

The total project time for this project was 7 months.

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