Re: [OSM-Talk-ZA] Fwd: WiFi Hotspots in SA

If you're writing a native app (e.g. Java, Android) there are similar libraries, but I have no experience with them. good luck! Dawid Loubser On 06/07/2016 11:38, Michael Graaf wrote: > > > -- Forwarded message -- > From: *Michael Graaf* <graaf.mich...@gmail.com &g

Re: [OSM-Talk-ZA] More JHB streets being renamed

On a non-OSM-note: This is totally absurd. I just finished reading a book on the history of Johannesburg, and those streets have such rich, non-Apartheid history. Such a middle finger to the people by the current government to totally disrespect that history, and perform costly re-naming, instead

Re: [OSM-Talk-ZA] University of Pretoria mapping

Nice! I'm giving a guest lecture today to the Computer Science students, I'll definitely mention this also :-) On 14/09/2014 14:57, Grant Slater wrote: Hi Talk-ZA, New University of Pretoria students mappers are out mapping Pretoria Around 15 new mappers...

Re: [OSM-Talk-ZA] Mozambique Gas Pipeline

OpenStreetMap link or it didn't happen :-) But seriously - I know you've been looking at mapping pipelines for a while now, and I think it's awesome! -- Dawid Loubser da...@travellinck.com Op Di, 2013-12-03 om 22:35 + skryf Gerhardus Geldenhuis: Hi I have recently finished a first draft

Re: [OSM-Talk-ZA] Mozambique Gas Pipeline

Just switch to the underground layer? Oh wait, that's in Sim City... I wonder if it makes sense for one of the other renderings (especially MapQuest's Transport Map) to indicate pipelines, dashed lines underground, solid lines overground. Pipes do, after all, transport stuff. -- Dawid Loubser

Re: [OSM-Talk-ZA] Gautrain Bus Mapping

out the JOSM editor for finer-grained editing tasks like these. Happy mapping! (or do we say Merry Mapping this time of year...?) -- Dawid Loubser da...@travellinck.com Op Do, 2013-11-21 om 06:37 +0200 skryf John: Thanks Grant, 1) I really like the live map. I have been looking

Re: [OSM-Talk-ZA] Nkandla on OpenStreetMap

How poignant after the recent attempts of the ANC to hide information about this disgrace. Thanks for that, Grant! I see somebody has already started with some nice micromapping of the buildings, helipads etc Information wants to be free. -- Dawid Loubser da...@travellinck.com Op Do, 2013-11

Re: [OSM-Talk-ZA] Gautrain Bus Mapping

, now that he's added a state secret (Nkandla) to the map :-) -- Dawid Loubser da...@travellinck.com Op Do, 2013-11-21 om 20:46 + skryf Gerhardus Geldenhuis: Well ideally you should travel with GPS in hand and map the stops. That way there is not licensing dispute at all and where the busses

Re: [OSM-Talk-ZA] Gautrain Bus Mapping

of obtaining an 'official' data feed? -- Dawid Loubser da...@travellinck.com Op Do, 2013-11-07 om 12:18 + skryf Gerhardus Geldenhuis: Thanks Grant, Route J1 and J2 should be good examples for all of the tags needed if you want to have the stops and routes display on all the maps

Re: [OSM-Talk-ZA] stop emails

Dear stryd...@iafrica.com ☺ As per the footer in all the mails: To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-za or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to talk-za-requ...@openstreetmap.org Sorry to see you

Re: [OSM-Talk-ZA] Gautrain Bus Mapping

Thanks for clarifying, Grant. By this logic, the Gautrain bus master route relation is then definitely not the correct usage of the tag. I think it should be removed, and only used for *variants* of the same route, as stated before (i.e. different day / night routes or stops, or weekday vs

Re: [OSM-Talk-ZA] Name does not on display on view map using Id

) * Append /dirty to submit for re-rendering (and others like /status to see when it was last updated etc) -- Dawid Loubser da...@travellinck.com Op Ma, 2013-11-04 om 11:05 + skryf Grant Slater: Hi Norman, The data looks good. I think the issue is the zoomed-out rendering can take ages

Re: [OSM-Talk-ZA] New OSM GPS Trace Map

contain very useful context information. -- Dawid Loubser da...@travellinck.com Op Vr, 2013-10-25 om 10:54 +0100 skryf Grant Slater: Talk-ZA, OSM now has a new GPS trace map... Available as an overlay layer in the iD editor... (and likely JOSM soon) It can be viewed outside of the iD

Re: [OSM-Talk-ZA] New OSM GPS Trace Map

Richfield: Oh, right, it has to be on the local computer - you'd have to download again. On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 3:20 PM, Dawid Loubser da...@travellinck.com wrote: I thought that only works with locally-loaded GPX files. Can JOSM access my uploaded-to-OSM traces, and see their waypoints

Re: [OSM-Talk-ZA] http://aerial.openstreetmap.org.za/ now seamless

Excellent news Grant, thank you for the wonderful work you do. To get updated (more recent) imagery in would be the icing on the cake. How often do they perform aerial surveys? -- Dawid Loubser da...@travellinck.com Op So, 2013-10-13 om 15:50 +0100 skryf Grant Slater: Talk-ZA, http

Re: [OSM-Talk-ZA] http://aerial.openstreetmap.org.za/ now seamless

of date with the reality on the ground… -- Dawid Loubser da...@travellinck.com Op Ma, 2013-10-14 om 10:14 +0100 skryf Grant Slater: Hi, On 14 October 2013 09:32, Dawid Loubser da...@travellinck.com wrote: Excellent news Grant, thank you for the wonderful work you do. To get updated (more recent

Re: [OSM-Talk-ZA] Cadastral information

for the prospect of getting this data into OSM. kind regards, -- DAWID LOUBSER Systems Architect - Travellinck International Johannesburg, South Africa --- mailto:da...@travellinck.com (E-Mail) tel:+27-82-655-0876 (Mobile) http

Re: [OSM-Talk-ZA] Using umap for Wiki Loves Monuments

! -- Dawid Loubser da...@travellinck.com Op Ma, 2013-09-30 om 02:46 +0100 skryf Grant Slater: I raise you one... I have been adding the SAHRA (national monuments) directly into OpenStreetMap... Sample so far: http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/18R I am using tag: sahra = *sahra ref number* Others

[OSM-Talk-ZA] Administrative regions of Johannesburg?

delivery (hospitals, clinics, police stations, etc) with them. If somebody could confirm that they are, in fact, absent (I might just be missing them) - does anybody have access to the correct geometry for these regions, or do we just add them in by hand? kind regards, -- Dawid Loubser da

Re: [OSM-Talk-ZA] Overpass

Grant, that is phenomenally useful and cool, thanks for sharing! -- DAWID LOUBSER Systems Architect - Travellinck International http://www.travellinck.com(World Wide Web) mailto:da...@travellinck.com (E-Mail) xmpp:dawid.loub...@gmail.com (Google Talk) skype:dawid.loubser

[OSM-Talk-ZA] associatedStreet relation vs Nodes with addr:street

half an hour per day to fix up the areas that I know). thanks! -- DAWID LOUBSER Systems Architect - Travellinck International http://www.travellinck.com(World Wide Web) tel:+27-82-655-0876 (Mobile phone) mailto:da...@travellinck.com (E-Mail) xmpp:dawid.loub...@gmail.com (Google

Re: [OSM-Talk-ZA] Download OSM map of KZN

a nifty map viewer - unless you're up for the challenge of hosting your own map server as per above. Dawid Loubser Travellinck International On 28 Mar 2012, at 10:58 AM, William Walter Kinghorn wrote: Hi Tomas, I want to be able to view the data offline ( possibly raw data ) I like to take

Re: [OSM-Talk-ZA] Unpaved roads in Kruger

have a go) regards, DAWID LOUBSER Systems Architect Travellinck +27 (011) 236-4901 (ext 219) da...@travellinck.com http://www.travellinck.com/ On 02 Dec 2011, at 3:58 PM, Tomas Straupis wrote: Hello Haven't found anything relevant therefore I will try asking here. In Kruger park main

[OSM-Talk-ZA] South African Suburbs?

Good afternoon, First post on this list! I have a question: In analysing the OpenStreetmap data for South Africa, it appears as if only the central points of Suburbs exist, and not the polygons (boundaries). Am I missing something? Any idea how we can get the suburbs polygons for South