OpenGovAfrica/oga-local-service-atlas

An auditable, geospatial civic platform to track, verify, and monitor the status of public infrastructure and service delivery at the local government level across African contexts. ### OGA Local Service Atlas Tracker This repository is part of the OpenGov Africa (OGA) ecosystem and contains the Local Government Service Atlas Tracker, a geospatial civic platform designed to track, verify, and monitor public infrastructure and service delivery across African local government contexts. It prioritizes auditability, data quality, and long-term reuse. It is designed to support urban and rural environments, low-connectivity usage, and multiple data sources including citizens, governments, and NGOs. The project is built with a focus on long-term sustainability, public collaboration, and clear accountability. All development follows OGA-wide project standards to ensure the work remains maintainable, auditable, and reusable beyond any single contributor or cohort. This repository is intentionally scaffold-first. Early contributors will be laying the foundations & no prior environment or infrastructure is assumed. --- ### Project Goals - Create a normalized, geospatial registry of public infrastructure assets - Enable citizen and institutional reporting with strong evidence and provenance - Support verification, moderation, and discrepancy detection workflows - Make service delivery failures visible, queryable, and actionable - Produce reusable civic data suitable for research, advocacy, and governance ### Technical Overview The platform is built around a geospatial-first, auditable data model with strong provenance guarantees. Core technical principles: - All spatial data uses GeoJSON and PostGIS - GeoJSON as the standard interchange format for all spatial data - All records are attributable to a source and time - State changes are explicit, validated, and auditable - Citizen-submitted data is verifiable, not assumed true - Official and community data can coexist and be compared - Normalized geographic areas (no free-text locations) - Strong provenance and audit trails for all reports and verification actions - Clear separation between data ing …