[OSM-talk] Pretoria, South Africa

[Nick Black]

On 1/27/07, Nic Roets <nroets at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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
>
> I added a few. My osmrenderer + firefox does not show areas with
> leisure=nature_reserve, nor areas with amenity=school. leisure=park
> does work.
>
> There are quite a number of unused areas, which are not official
> nature reserves. Should I tag them as nature reserves ? Actually I'm a
> bit worried that tourists will see a nature reserve on my map, start
> walking / hiking / driving there and then get mugged by some of the
> vagrants. And that even goes for some of the official nature reserves.
>
> > 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
>
> Done. I hope keeping them private will be OK.

Great - thats a whole load of mapping you've been doing.
>
> > issues).  If you derived them from an old map or something, or if SA
>
> It's not impossible that we will be able to strike a deal similar to
> the Yahoo! one with www.madmappers.com and / or
> http://w3sli.wcape.gov.za/ and get access to 1:50000 topographical
> maps.

Checked out madmappers - cant seem to see what the copyright issues
are on the russian maps though.

>
> Alternatively we can investigate the possibility that, when these maps
> were created a few decades ago, they fell in the public domain. This
> would mean that we will be able to buy up secondhand maps and use them
> without restriction.
>
> But then I won't get my exercise, and the data won't be up to date.
>
> > 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
>
> These housing estates all have access control. If I'm able to sneak
> in, I may not be able to sneak back out again. They typically only
> have one entrance and people always list the road the entrance is in,
> in their address. So even without data for their insides, OSM will
> still be a good navigational / routing tool.
>
> I'll rather concentrate on the suburbs North of -25.73
>
> > new areas.  Hey, if you have any contacts in Durban or Cape Town, I'd
> > fancy a mapping weekend there.  Jan 2008 maybe!
>
> Perhaps George, which is also a very popular tourist destination.
> Wouter Brand lives there. Perhaps you'll be able to persuade him to
> share the tracks he collects for Track4Africa.

Doubtfull...
>


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