[OSM-Talk-ZA] South African Suburbs?

Adrian Frith adrian at adrianfrith.com
Tue Dec 27 17:15:50 GMT 2011


On 25 November 2011 14:18, Dawid Loubser <dawid at travellinck.com> wrote:
> 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 Africa into OSM?

Late reply, but: I don't know if suburbs always have well-defined
boundaries. I know that the City of Cape Town has a "suburb" layer in
their GIS which divides the whole city into suburbs, but I don't know
if such official boundaries exist for other cities.

Cheers,
Adrian



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