Re: [OSM-Talk-ZA] Rivers in South Africa

2013-01-28 Thread Gerhardus Geldenhuis
Hi I would gladly help doing work on imports if needed, thus volunteering time and skills. I have spend significant time tracing river banks for the Vaal river so would certainly not like to see that effort going to waste. The original reason that prompted my email was that I noted that a large se

Re: [OSM-Talk-ZA] Rivers in South Africa

2013-01-27 Thread Lance Burger
This data comes from CD:NGI. It is either the same data or a lower resolution data from the shape files that we obtained from CD:NGI under the agreement OSM Foundation has with CD:NGI. I suggest that you rather use the shapefiles that we have and import those. In terms of the agreement all those

[OSM-Talk-ZA] Rivers in South Africa

2013-01-27 Thread Gerhardus Geldenhuis
Hi I just came accross this link: http://www.dwaf.gov.za/iwqs/gis_data/river/rivs500k.html The information is made available "as is" with no copyright mentioned that I could see. Given the lack of good river tracing covering the whole of South Africa would this be worthwhile spending some time o