Re: [OSM-Talk-ZA] Cadastral information

2013-10-01 Thread Grant Slater
On 1 October 2013 18:41, Dawid Loubser wrote: > I know that Norman would be more than willing to get in > touch with the right people if some sort of agreement is required > (somewhat a speciality of his :-) > DO IT! :) > I can barely contain my excitement for the prospect of getting this data

Re: [OSM-Talk-ZA] Cadastral information

2013-10-01 Thread Dawid Loubser
Hi Lance, Any links to the terms of the copyright? And if needs be, let's enter into such an agreement with the Surveyor-General! I see no conceptual difference in "manually copying" (tracing by hand) information that is effectively in the public domain in South Africa, versus "programatically tr

Re: [OSM-Talk-ZA] Cadastral information

2013-10-01 Thread Grant Slater
I am working on exactly this at the moment. Rendered "slippy" map. Similar to http://aerial.openstreetmap.org.za/ I have received a national dataset containing ERF cadastral polygons + numbers. I am still a little unclear on copyright or usage terms. Surveyor-General has an online version here: h

Re: [OSM-Talk-ZA] Cadastral information

2013-10-01 Thread Lance Burger
Copyright. The information is subject to state copyright. The OSM Foundation has an agreement with the Chief Directorate: National Geo-Spatial Information to use their data (which is also subject to state copyright), but that does not include data held by other departments, such as the Survey

[OSM-Talk-ZA] Cadastral information

2013-10-01 Thread Norman Woodward
I live in the district of Mossel Bay. I obtained from the local council the cadastral erf co-ordinates and erf numbers, which I am told comes from general surveys office. I would like to convert the gps data to a layer, which would mean that the data layer now only containing the streets would also