[OSM-Talk-ZA] Durban import

2009-08-10 Thread Russell Cloran
Hi all, Great to see the Brainstorm article, good work Heather! It reminded me that we have some data from eThekwini and I haven't heard anything from anybody about it in a while. I've just had a look at the map of Durban, and it seems like someone is doing some excellent work around the Berea an

Re: [OSM-Talk-ZA] Durban import

2009-08-10 Thread Brendan Barrett
I saw some discussion on the TALK mailing list about similar problems with TIGER (and other) data not aligning with Yahoo!, so we are not alone. I vote going with the Municipal data over Yahoo! imagery everywhere we have municipal data. I'd hate to slow down progress due to uncertainty, and we

Re: [OSM-Talk-ZA] Durban import

2009-08-10 Thread Nic Roets
Hi Russell, Grant spoke to someone from Y! Maps at SOTM09 about it. He said Grant should email him and he would pass it on. Another way would be to change Potlatch. It's a pity that no one else added this functionality already. So I think the most practical would be to import the data and get th

Re: [OSM-Talk-ZA] Durban import

2009-08-10 Thread Grant Slater
2009/8/10 Nic Roets : > Hi Russell, > > Grant spoke to someone from Y! Maps at SOTM09 about it. He said Grant should > email him and he would pass it on. > "Director of Engineering, Yahoo! Geo Technologies" Which I then promptly forgot about I'll email him now... fingers crossed it'll be fixe

Re: [OSM-Talk-ZA] Durban import

2009-08-10 Thread Brendan Barrett
Grant, That's great. If we spot other areas that are misaligned, would we be able to pass those on as well? Don't have any off hand, but curious to know if we could pass them on when we find them? Regards, Brendan Barrett -- From: "Grant Slater"

Re: [OSM-Talk-ZA] Durban import

2009-08-10 Thread Russell Cloran
Hi, On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Nic Roets wrote: > So I think the most practical would be to import the data and get the word > out that everyone should be cautious. Put something on OpenStreetBugs and > something on the South African part of the wiki. Perhaps add "note" or other > tags. Gr