[OSM-talk] Pretoria, South Africa

[Andy Robinson]

Nick Black wrote:
>Sent: 27 January 2007 10:11 AM
>To: Nic Roets
>Cc: talk at openstreetmap.org
>Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Pretoria, South Africa
>
>Hi Nic,
>
>It looks pretty good - did you do that all yourself?  Thats a whole
>load of cycling/driving.  I think it'll look really nice when its
>rendered:
>

Pretoria is one of those lucky locations to have Yahoo! imagery, so
presumably that is the source origin of most of the base mapping? But that's
still a lot of street names to collect in a week, even though they don't all
appear to be named yet!

Cheers

Andy

Andy Robinson
Andy_J_Robinson at blueyonder.co.uk

>http://www.openstreetmap.org/index.html?lat=-
>25.779306583591687&lon=28.247936449414347&zoom=12
>
>You can really enhance the rendering by adding areas, particularly
>things like parks and open spaces, then you have nice green areas that
>add some colour to the map.  One thing to note though, when i tried to
>download the GPS traces for the area, not all of the roads you have
>drawn have GPS traces associated - if you derived the vectors from GPS
>traces, its best to upload them to OSM - so that we have "proof" that
>you actually went out and did the leg work (all becuase of copyright
>issues).  If you derived them from an old map or something, or if SA
>doesnt have the same copyright laws as the UK and most countries in
>Europe, than thats cool.
>
>The roads look good though - but you've got a lot of work ahead ;-) -
>as I remember it the entire N1 coridor from J'berg to Pretoria is
>surrounded by housing estates.  SA is a good example of how OSM can
>really kick ass in getting the most up-to-date geo-data around - as
>there are so many new developments.
>
>Also, OSM's flexible ontology and history features fit well for a
>country like SA, where you have in some cases different names for the
>same places in different languages.
>
>So, good mapping - its always cool to see OSM coverage expanding into
>new areas.  Hey, if you have any contacts in Durban or Cape Town, I'd
>fancy a mapping weekend there.  Jan 2008 maybe!
>
>Nick
>
>On 1/27/07, Nic Roets <nroets at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I've added my home city (Pretoria) to OSM during the last week or so
>> (approximately 100^2 km). Take a look and tell me if my tagging is OK.
>>
>> Particularly, I've taken liberty with road classification : Most roads
>> are "residential". Then I made all the roads with high traffic
>> congestion "secondary", even though they are not all wider than a
>> typical "residential" road. That way it's much easier to read the map.
>>
>> lat=-25.84541 to -25.70357
>> lon=28.09826 to 28.43496
>>
>> It will be nice to see it properly rendered at some point.
>>
>> Trivia : Pretoria has the second most embassies, after Washington D.C.
>>
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