Well I have not seen an official announcement on this maybe i missed it. NGI aerial imagery is available as a backdrop on OSM, not sure about vector data though.
Kudos to all involved. On 25 November 2011 12:27, Grant Slater <openstreet...@firefishy.com> wrote: > On 25 November 2011 07:22, Stephan Knauss <o...@stephans-server.de> wrote: > > On 25.11.2011 01:29, maning sambale wrote: > >> > >> Sharing this news: > >> > >> > http://afrispatial.co.za/open-data/osm-to-become-a-distributor-of-ngis-south-african-topo-data/ > > > > sounds like another massive data import. > > > > Is the community involved? > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_South_Africa > > > > Yes, some of us from the South African community have been involved. > The announcement from afrispatial.co.za is badly timed and wasn't > expected, we have our own announcement lined up. A formal agreement > is in the final stages. > > We haven't yet fully considered exactly what bits of the data we'll > use. We'll consider when ripe. A blanket import is out of the > question. > > Regards > Grant > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >
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