Hello Community, I was contacted by Aaron Young (copied) of kaartgroup.com a while back here is an extract from his email:
My organization, Kaart.com <http://kaart.com/> is currently in the process of updating road names for South Africa in OpenStreetMap.org <http://openstreetmap.org/>. You can see our most recent work in Cape Town and Durban. Would you be able to provide street names to fill in missing names for users of OpenStreetMap? We are more than happy to do the import ourselves if you are able to provide the data to us. We are most insterested in East London, Grahamstown, and other rural towns in the Eastern Cape. http://qa.poole.ch/?zoom=8&lat=-32.51065&lon=27.48572&layers=TFFFB0 In response I provided him with the following information: The Provincial Department of Transport embarked on a project sometime in 2010 to 2014 - here is the project website - http://www.roadclass.co.za/ The individual files per municipality are found in this link - http://www.roadclass.co.za/index.php/kmz-downloads/ I have though created a geopackage available here - https://drive.google.com/open?id=1S2IzsppDZlXXLCRp5q6Q2pC5ZF83dGv1 This data excludes the datasets for Nelson Mandela Metro and Buffalo City Metro. I generally use this data with OSM - please review it. In South Africa data generated by government is Public Data, but if you have licensing considerations I can try and clear them with the Provincial Department of Transport. Please also not a while back I facilitated the provision of address data to the openaddress project for the entire country based on data from Statistics South Africa. What if we leveraged this data to get road names? I am also available to work with your team to address any other issue you might have in improving the data on OSM. We then subsequently agreed to move this discussion to solicit ideas and involvement by the community. Regards, Sindile Bidla
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