Hi All,
I am running a GoFundMe campaign to purchase the historical 1:50k
topographic map series for Namibia.
Any support would be appreciated:
https://www.gofundme.com/namibian-topographic-maps
The map sheets were produced during the 1970s and 1980s by the
Surveyor-General of South West
Hi All,
There is a project to map all the building in Knysna to potentially
help with the relief effort:
http://tasks.teachosm.org/project/390
I've grabbed a square already ;-)
Happy Mapping.
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Hi All,
This is some impressive mapping details in Cape Town:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/-33.88991/18.59125
Nice work!
Kind regards,
Grant
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Hi All,
There is a South African task on the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Task Manager:
http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/2403
Please check it help and help map a square. More information and
details are available on the above link.
Kind regards,
Grant
Hi All,
New Table Mountain cycle routes
We should map them! :)
https://www.sanparks.org/docs/general/emp_mountain_biking.pdf
Kind regards,
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h to spot some great bird flying
> formations :-)
>
> regards,
> Dawid
>
>
> On 07/09/2016 16:05, Grant Slater wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Yup... I forgot to move osm.org.za + openstreetmap.org.za by the
>> suspend deadline. I had a real adventure moving them to a new
ng I can do to assist.
>
> --K
>
> On 5 September 2016 at 18:04, Grant Slater <openstreet...@firefishy.com>
> wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> And of course I experience an issue as soon as I sent this...
>> openstreetmap.org.za DNS has issues, give me a few d
Hi All,
And of course I experience an issue as soon as I sent this...
openstreetmap.org.za DNS has issues, give me a few days to fix.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
Kind regards,
Grant
On 5 September 2016 at 14:38, Grant Slater <openstreet...@firefishy.com> wrote:
> Hi OpenStr
Hi OpenStreetMap ZA,
I've been able to get permission for OpenStreetMap to use the City of
Cape Town's very high resolution 2015 aerial imagery (8cm). I
collected a copy of the imagery last month.
It will be available in JOSM and iD in a few weeks time.
In the mean time, here is a quick
Hi All,
I have started compiling a list of Open Geo data providers in South Africa.
Any help expanding the list would be appreciated.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TRldpu2DfLgTENQxGY8tKpkBK181FnECcA_zX4wfE9Q/edit#gid=0
Kind regards,
Grant
Hi All,
There is some amazing on-the-ground micro mapping of a location in Cape
Town. They are using GPS & fieldpapers
https://twitter.com/osmcbba/status/636146688701374464
Map: http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/-34.02332/18.65585
A big welcome to our new mappers :-)
Kind regards,
Grant
-- Forwarded message --
From: alyssa wright alyssapwri...@gmail.com
Date: 5 March 2015 at 16:03
Subject: invitation
To: talk-za-ow...@openstreetmap.org
I would love to extend the invite to SOTM US to members of your
community. Let me know if you have any questions.
Hi!
Hi,
On 2 May 2014 16:15, John john@gmail.com wrote:
I may be able to get a list of all bus stops including GPS coordinates
directly from Gautrain.
Awesome! Do it, we are still lacking the locations of most of the Gautrain
Bus stops... Rea Vaya bus stops are even worse.
Two questions:
Hi mtb,
They offer a complete set of high resolution sheets on 3x DVD. The set
is available at cost from their offices in Cape Town (and likely
others).
Unfortunately the sheets are not cropped and include the collar
(title, map key etc). I haven't yet tried to automate the copping.
I have a
Hi All,
Interesting piece...
Lesotho mapping Fire Hydrants using OpenStreetMap:
http://rustyb.github.io/lesotho/2014/02/14/fire-hydrants.html
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On 10 February 2014 09:47, m...@martinb.za.net wrote:
Hi all,
I came across this the other day:
http://www.education.gov.za/EMIS/EMISDownloads/tabid/466/Default.aspx
It is spatial data for all the schools in the country. I am not sure whether
this can be used or not, but it might be useful
On 21 November 2013 04:37, John john@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks Grant,
1) I really like the live map. I have been looking for a browser based map
showing live buses!! I am sitting on the bus now and it is accurate
including buses going in the opposite direction. Sometimes it is less good
Hi Christoff,
Do you have an extract or sample of the data we could look at?
Approximately how much data in total?
Was there an initial failed import which needs reverting?
Regards
Grant
On 27 November 2013 07:07, Christoff Pretorius pretoriu...@gmail.com wrote:
Good Day
I am looking at
On 22 November 2013 06:36, Dawid Loubser da...@travellinck.com wrote:
How poignant after the recent attempts of the ANC to hide information about
this disgrace.
Oh? I hadn't noticed /sarcasm ;-)
Most of the photos published over the last few months are taken from
along this track:
Hi Talk-ZA,
The location of the Nkandla homestead is difficult to find, so I've
added it to OpenStreetMap:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/2539583622
Aerial imagery before major construction:
http://aerial.openstreetmap.org.za/?zoom=17lat=-28.84371lon=31.0988
Bing aerial imagery is
Hi Talk-ZA,
A few of us (DawidLoubser, Gerhardus Geldenhuis, johng likely
others) have recently added all the Gautrain Bus routes.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_South_Africa/Public_transport_routes#Gautrain_Bus
I have hacked together a live map for viewing buses on the routes
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 editor here:
http://bl.ocks.org/ericfischer/raw/713d24985c9a4a085629/#6/-28.4/22.5
The traces are coloured by direction:
Eastbound movement in
On 25 October 2013 12:38, Dawid Loubser da...@travellinck.com wrote:
I was wondering - is there any way to, in - say the iD editor - obtain
more information about the GPX traces? And is there any way to see the
waypoints / information about the waypoints?
The waypoints often contain very
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) imagery in would be the icing on the cake.
:)
How often do they perform aerial surveys?
At as guess, approximately 20% of
Talk-ZA,
http://aerial.openstreetmap.org.za/ imagery (available in iD,
Potlatch2 JOSM) is now seamless.
No ugly black strips while zoomed out.
Happy to describe setup if anyone is interested. (gdal vrt, gdalwarp,
mapserver...)
Gerhardus Geldenhuis also recently popped into CD:NGI in Cape Town
Hi Talk-ZA,
Does this road North of Pretoria exist?
It seems to be a new road. Aerial imagery for the area is out of date.
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?way=241110385
There is a linked note: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/note/13398
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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 welcome to join in.
/ Grant
On 11 September 2013 15:31, David Richfield davidrichfi...@gmail.com
Those edits have already been reverted.
/ Grant
On 21 August 2013 16:53, Gerhardus Geldenhuis
gerhardus.geldenh...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi
Yes it would be easier to just revert the changes but the process can drag
out a bit, so might be quicker to just manually undo the changes.
Regards
On
Talk-ZA,
I recently heard a rumour that Garmin South Africa has since April
2013 begun bundling an OpenStreetMap basemap with all their outdoor
devices.
The bundled OSM basemap is claimed to cover all of Africa, unroutable,
topographic styled (with contours) and supplied on an sdcard.
Is anyone
restaurants and bars, 8,800
car parks, 7,800 schools and universities, 6,600 accommodations and
many more.
Download size: 1,60 GB
Regards
Grant
On 5 July 2013 16:01, Grant Slater openstreet...@firefishy.com wrote:
Talk-ZA,
I recently heard a rumour that Garmin South Africa has since April
2013 begun
Talk-ZA,
Others might find this useful...
Overpass is a fantastic service for querying OSM data:
Example:
Find all the hospitals in the Western Cape
http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/or
or
All the schools...
http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/ov
Regards
Grant
On 21 May 2013 22:03, Grant Slater openstreet...@firefishy.com wrote:
There is also a South African section coming to
http://forum.openstreetmap.org/ soon.
The South Africa section is now available on the forum:
http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewforum.php?id=75
Login using your
Talk-ZA,
There is a new IRC (chat) channel for OpenStreetMap South Africa.
http://irc.openstreetmap.org/ channel is #osm-za (irc.OFTC.net network)
For anyone not familiar with IRC... it is a live interactive group
chat, anyone can join in at any time and ask questions or discuss
relevant topics
On 18 May 2013 19:29, Gerhardus Geldenhuis
gerhardus.geldenh...@gmail.com wrote:
I saw a note of mine being resolved that did not look very resolved to me.
;-)
Worth raising an unresolve button as a feature request somewhere? Perhaps in
the git repository for the website.
Sure, makes sense,
Hi Talk-ZA,
The Bordeaux suburb in Joburg is completely missing! It was one of the
first suburbs mapped in Joburg but was unfortunately removed during
the OSM license change because the person who originally mapped it was
uncontactable.
It is a nice leafy residential suburb.
Anyone up for
OSM ZA,
During November I spend a day cycling around the new development in
Sunningdale, Cape Town. I have now added most of the mapping...
http://osm.org/?lat=-33.797lon=18.483zoom=17layers=M
If there are any mappers in the area or you have friends in the area
it would be great get the
On 10 February 2013 09:05, David Schneider d.schnei...@tradermail.info wrote:
Hi List!
I searched an address in the eastern parts of Cape Town, and I was
suprised that nomatim didn't report it as residential. I checked the
data, and found that vast parts of Cape Town's residential areas are
Hi Marlon,
On 5 February 2013 08:55, Marlon v/d Linde vesuv...@kbye.co.za wrote:
Hi there
This will probably be a very dull and narrow question, but I am having a
hard time setting up a tile server.
I actually do have it running, but no amount of googling is helping me in
understanding the
On 31 January 2013 19:35, Gerhardus Geldenhuis
gerhardus.geldenh...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi
Is there an easy way of seeing the age of the CD:NGI image in JOSM? Show
tile info only shows the tile name and zoom level.
Not currently. I'm working on adding an overlay (transparent layer)
which will
Talk-ZA,
Recent Garmin GPS units can display Custom Maps [1]
As a quick test I have created a Custom Map using the NGI aerial
imagery for the Cape Town City Bowl (CBD).
Install Instructions:
1) Download:
http://aerial.openstreetmap.org.za/Garmin-Custom-Map-CT-City-Bowl-Test-17012013.kmz
(18MB)
On 10 January 2013 13:59, Craig Leat craig.l...@gmail.com wrote:
I tried pulling the new aerial imagery into qgis using the TMS driver,
but the data is not scaling correctly.
Here's the content of my xml file:
GDAL_WMS
Service name=TMS
Hi OSM ZA,
Updated: http://aerial.openstreetmap.org.za/
Contains new imagery (collect from CD:NGI during November 2012) and
I've finally filled in most of the missing areas.
Percentage of the imagery captured in the year:
- 2012: 17.8%
- 2011: 27.6%
- 2010: 21.1%
- 2009: 28.8%
- 2008: 4.7%
Talk-ZA,
Linfiniti Consulting is sponsoring 3 students to map buildings in Swellendam...
- http://linfiniti.com/2012/12/holiday-openstreetmap-project-for-swellendam/
Is Swellendam going to be the best mapped town in South Africa? ;-)
It is about time Underberg had some competition:
Talk-ZA,
OWL (OpenStreetMap Watch List) is a good service for monitoring
changes to OSM. It wasn't available for a few months, but has returned
looking much better than before:
South Africa:
http://owl.osm.org/#6/-27.713/22.961
Wiki:
http://wiki.osm.org/wiki/OWL_%28OpenStreetMap_Watch_List%29
OSM Capetonians,
Details for the mapping party this Sunday 4th Nov 2012:
Meeting at the Wimpy at Westcoast Village in Sandown at 10:30 to
around 11:30 for coffee and to divide up the area to map.
Location: Wimpy, Sandown Road, Blouberg / Sandown
GPS: -33.8048, 18.485
OSM Map:
5114459
E: malmor...@gmail.com
On 25 October 2012 13:50, Grant Slater openstreet...@firefishy.com
wrote:
OSM South Africa,
Any suggestions for where we should have a mapping party? Nothing like
leaving it to the last minute...
Saturday 3rd November 2012.
Potential Areas:
* City Bowl
Talk-ZA,
How best to map major intercity Taxi routes?
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I am pleased to announce the availability of new aerial imagery for mappers.
http://aerial.openstreetmap.org.za/
The imagery was kindly provided by Chief Directorate of National
Geographic Information (CD:NGI)
The imagery is 0.5m per pixel, with very accurate position.
There are a few
Talk-ZA,
Ilya Zverev just announced a rendering of the OpenStreetMap GPS data:
http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2012-September/064081.html
South Africa looks good, but we do have a few major routes that lack
GPS coverage:
South Africa:
Talk-ZA,
Anyone up for an OpenStreetMap mapping party in the Cape Town area
around the beginning of November? I'll be in town.
Any suggestions for a venue?
There are many fresh faces and it will be good to have a fun, social
mapping meet.
Regards
Grant
On 21 August 2012 14:21, Jirka Panek jirkapa...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Lance,
Yeah, the NGI photo is good, what do you exactly mean by hosting - do
you just need space on server? If so, I can provide that...
I am currently trying to get a server + hosting for the ~3100GB* of
the processed
On 16 August 2012 12:36, Craig Leat craig.l...@gmail.com wrote:
Nice work Grant! I found gaps too and most resulted from incorrect
georeferencing embedded in the sid or tif file. The world files were
correct, but gdal ignores them and gives precedence to the embedded
georeferencing. I had to
On 30 March 2012 15:06, Andrew Gillespie m...@andrew.nom.za wrote:
If I have made changes to something created by one of the users who have not
accepted, like when they traced from sat and then I refined it after driving
the road, will the content still be deleted?
Yes in some cases. Hence the
On 30 March 2012 22:11, John john@gmail.com wrote:
Misread the table first time. Nonetheless got one positive response.
http://odbl.poole.ch/south_africa_and_lesotho-20120213-20120328-poly.html
Have now sent messages to the eight on your list and next 4, down to
Thys (rank 217)
On 13 December 2011 11:33, Dawid Loubser da...@travellinck.com wrote:
Hi Tomas,
I think there are only two members of this mailing list - you... and I...
:-)
This list has 128 subscribers. (91 non-digest, 37 digest.)
...
Question: is marking of such roads as highway=track ok or it would
OpenStreetMap South Africa,
I'm pleased to see that Stats SA / Census 2011 is using OpenStreetMap
on their Verify Census Fieldworker website:
http://interactive.statssa.gov.za:8088/kyfw/
Regards
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On 19 October 2011 10:08, babyan...@gmail.com wrote:
Good day
I am looking to compare the datasets for South Africa from 2007 to 2011, but
I cannot download the full file with our internet connection. Is there
anyone who has the data so that I can copy the data?
The
Hi Guys,
With help from Lance, we have converted a large set of old, out of
copyright government topographic map sheets into a web slippy map.
See them here:
http://grant.dev.openstreetmap.org/za-ooc-slippy/
The map sheets are mostly 1st edition from the 1940s and 1950s. No freeways!
It is
Talk-ZA,
OpenStreetMap is use.
The University of Pretoria is currently busy with mass transit
simulation of a number of cities in South Africa as part of their
transport development research. One of the products of this research
was that all the metro-rail data in these cities is being captured
On 8 June 2011 17:48, Mikel Maron mikel_ma...@yahoo.com wrote:
How do you know they use OSM?
They are using OpenLayers and parts of the Mapnik rendering stack but
as far as I know they are using purely their own data.
It took them many months to get a decent coastline.
I wouldn't be surprised
Hi,
Myself along with some others have been adding the power grid network.
Bing imagery is high enough resolution in many areas to see the
pylons.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Power_networks/South_Africa
Regards
Grant
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On 25 January 2011 16:23, Anton Damhuis antondamh...@cybersmart.co.za wrote:
What phone at Game are you referring to?
I have been looking at getting a new phone with GPS, and R1000.00 seems
reasonable to pay.
Likely the Vodafone VF845.
Tech Specs:
* Processor: Qualcomm 528MHz
* OS: Android
On 30 November 2010 19:28, Nic Roets nro...@gmail.com wrote:
Microsoft has given OSM permission to trace from their Bing aerial images,
subject to certain restrictions on the editor being used. For the
foreseeable future it will only be available under the Potlatch 2 editor
which is currently
Talk-ZA,
Geofabrik recently made some videos showing European mapping progress:
http://opengeodata.org/see-the-openstreetmap-coverage-evolving
Not to be outdone, I asked for a South Africa video:
http://vimeo.com/16105837
It is a bit zoomed out, but fun none-the-less.
There is also an animation
On 16 August 2010 15:05, Nic Roets nro...@gmail.com wrote:
We've been invited back to software freedom day and I said yes. It's on 18
September at the Department of Science and Techonology on the CSIR campus.
http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2010/Africa/SouthAfrica/Pretoria
Awesome. Anyone
On 16 August 2010 16:01, Nic Roets nro...@gmail.com wrote:
There is also this map:
http://openmtbmap.x-nation.de/maps/africa/mtbsouth_africa_and_lesotho.exe
My personal preference is: (German but easy enough to navigate)
http://download.raumbezug.eu/garmin/osmGarmin.php?id=3
Hi Guys,
City of Joburg seems to be offering a GIS course to the public later
in the year. Might be of interest to some OpenStreetMappers.
Clare van Zwieten of PositionIT Magazine posted these brief details:
http://twitter.com/clarevanzwieten/statuses/20129815832
If anyone goes, please poke
2010/7/19 David Richfield davidrichfi...@gmail.com:
4) Cairo to Germiston Fails. Cape to Cairo is still our goal!!!
I've been working on these long distance routes in the past. The
problem is Egypt closed the road borders with Sudan many years ago.
The route taken by the 4x4 crowd is via an
Which mega hospital should we do next?
- Grant
On 5/21/10, David Richfield davidrichfi...@gmail.com wrote:
And the history shows that the heroes are mbuege and FK270673 , both
from Germany. Strange. I've complimented them by private message.
2010/5/21 David Richfield
2010/5/4 Stef Steiner stef_stei...@hotmail.com:
I ordered one Nokia N900 from this website www.like188.com one weeks ago,
today I've got it .
haha sorry what? 1 week for international shipping.
Beware guys, spam as John Grant said. Keep away from like188.com
Stef, time to choose a better
If I get a chance, I'll have a go at re-projecting and turning into a slippymap.
Also happy to help someone else do this.
Basic steps:
1) Crop images to borders
2) Add control points via gdal_translate (jpg - geotiff)
3) gdal_warp to EPSG:900913 (reproject)
4) tile... using patched gdal2tiles
On 22 April 2010 12:36, Nic Roets nro...@gmail.com wrote:
If you are on a slow connection and you want to quickly zoom in with a
slippy map, there is a trick : Double click on the location (the more
accurate, the better). This will center the map on that location. Then
select a high zoom level
OSM-ZA,
Just noticed the OSM project of the week...
It is adding sports facilities to the map, with a particular focus on
2010 World Cup facilities.
http://opengeodata.org/project-of-the-week-of-march-14-2010-sport-fa
The actual project page:
Talk-ZA,
And the quickest place growing in mapping in quantity and quality is Vryheid.
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=-27.7786lon=30.8084zoom=14
Awesome stuff.
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Talk-ZA,
After the recent MyBroadband article...
There has been an amazing jump in the number of people contributing to
OpenStreetMap in South Africa.
We have had at least 60 new people contributing data all over South
Africa. PE, Cape Town, JHB, Durban, Pretoria, Stellenbosch, Paarl,
2010/1/5 Brendan Barrett brendanbarr...@live.co.za:
Can you confirm if you mean the 18th or 28th? (subject line says 18th).
woops.
18th Jan 2010 @ 6pm.
All welcome, the more the merrier. Please come along even if you are
completely new to OpenStreetMap.
Can anyone in Cape Town confirm if
Capetonians,
I'm in Cape Town on the 28th Jan, how about a mappers meet in Cape
Town? The Joburg meet was a great success.
Can anyone recommend a simple venue? Open in the evening, quietish and
near beer. Southern Suburbs or City Bowl prefered.
What is Relish in Tamboerskloof like?
Its on! Live in JHB or surrounds come join us...
Where: Jolly Roger in Parkhurst, Jozi.
http://www.osm.org/?node=195088752
When: 28th December 2009 from 6pm.
Who: YOU. (I'll be the guy with the GPS)
Regards
Grant
2009/12/8 Grant Slater openstreet...@firefishy.com:
Hi Guys,
Anyone up
2009/11/30 Grant Slater openstreet...@firefishy.com:
http://grant.dev.openstreetmap.org/cdsm-tiles-test-DO-NOT-USE/
Most of the Western Cape is now done. (zoom levels 5-8 and 15 are
still generating)
Next up Northern Cape and then the full Eastern Cape.
Western Cape, Northern Cape, North
2009/11/29 Grant Slater openstreet...@firefishy.com:
As a short term experiment, I've turned [1] a selection of them into a
slippy. (My bit of the Eastern Cape)
http://grant.dev.openstreetmap.org/cdsm-tiles-test-DO-NOT-USE/
Most of the Western Cape is now done. (zoom levels 5-8 and 15
Hullo,
Ek vertaal www.OpenStreetMap.org maar ek soek hulp.
1) registreer here: http://translatewiki.net/wiki/Special:CreateAccount
2) http://translatewiki.net/wiki/Project:Translator (lees en volg die
'Prerequisites')
3)
2009/9/18 Nic Roets nro...@gmail.com:
I'm building a stand for us at the DST building. I've constructed a 1.4m x
1.4m 49 megapixel colour map of Pretoria out of 49 A4 sheets and tonight I'm
make a 1m x 1m map of Northern Jhb. I'll also have printouts for Cape Town,
Kempton Park, Walking Papers
2009/9/16 Brendan Barrett brendanbarr...@live.co.za:
Have you tried the South African Extract that Cloudmade offers?
http://downloads.cloudmade.com/
Or the daily updated Geofabrik ZA extracts:
http://download.geofabrik.de/osm/africa/
/ Grant
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Comeon guys, who is in with Nic?
How often do you get to brag about how super awesome OpenStreetMap is!
OSM Gauteng looks amazing.
The day's events should be quite good too...
/ Grant
2009/8/12 Nic Roets nro...@gmail.com:
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 1:35 PM, Grant Slater openstreet
2009/8/10 Nic Roets nro...@gmail.com:
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
2009/7/31 Heinz Meulke heinz.meu...@gmail.com:
I currently have a Garmin Extrex GPS and I am always keen to log trips
wherever I drive, but it only keeps points and I frequently manage to
fill it up.
I need something that can record lots(unlimited) points. So should I travel
for 2
Talk-ZA,
OpenStreetMap South Africa is starting to hot up... There are 2
magazine articles discussing OSM South Africa coming out in the next
couple of months. New Tracks4Africa converts... Time is ripe to
introduce new comers to mapping, tools and getting involved.
Can anyone suggest any venues
brendan barrett wrote:
Ok, I couldn't wait and emailed Mr Oelsner for the coordinates.
That is the spirit!
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brendan barrett wrote:
Darling Wind Farm on top of Moedmag Kopi
33 18' 81 S 18 15'79 E
246 above sea level
Added! -33.3135, 18.263167
Should appear here soon:
www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=-33.3135mlon=18.263167zoom=13
OpenCycleMap with Hill shading looks impressive:
Wind Turbines - WC
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/8097882.stm
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OSM ZA,
A few of us have been trying to get government data to include in OSM...
While the Public Access to Information Act allows us to get the data
relatively easily it does not answer the question of copyright and usage
terms...
I recently found the following draft(?) policy which might be
Talk-ZA,
OpenStreetMap.org now supports translations... anyone feeling brave?
http://svn.openstreetmap.org/sites/rails_port/config/locales/
en.yml is master
/ Grant
PS: www.osm.org now redirects to www.openstreetmap.org
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OSM ZA,
State of the Map Conference Scholarship Winners have been announced!
http://www.opengeodata.org/?p=496
Congrads to Nic Roets!
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Hi Guys,
Interesting post about level of mapping in Namibia:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/wallclimber21/diary/6433
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OSM ZA,
Could someone put themselves forward for the Local contacts mailing list?
Quote SteveC:
In order to more efficiently and clearly trickle down announcements
like server downtime to the local lists, we've created a 'list of
lists' for people to help take announcements and translate
OSM ZA (and Southern Africa),
OpenStreetMap Foundation has just announced the availability of a
limited number of travel scholarships to the State of the Map 2009
Conference in Amsterdam, July 10th, 11th and 12th.
Full announcement here:
Tomas Straupis wrote:
One more question.
Is there a place to download frequently updated OSM data for South
Africa? (Other than main OSM server).
Cloudmade only updates data every week or so with a data which is a
number of days old at the date of update. This gives me an average of
Dave Coventry wrote:
Hi,
I'm interested in getting a functioning representation of the South
African Openstreetmaps on my web page.
Brilliant!
Yes there are a number of ways of doing it... in increasing complexity
Option 1) www.openstreetmap.org, zoom to correct area, click export tab,
Looks good, great work guys.
/ Grant
Adrian Frith wrote:
OK folks, first rendering of the West Coast data is at
http://htonl.dev.openstreetmap.org/west-coast/
Currently only up to z12, increased zoom levels coming as soon as I can
render them.
cheers,
Adrian
Hi,
Started a page to track the data release by the municipalities:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_South_Africa/municipalities
If someone has a chance, could you please wiki-fy the rest of sections?
Regards
Grant
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