[OSGeo Africa] Address DB

[S Coetzer]

Hi

I'm trying to find some opinions on two methods of address "geolocation" in
SA.

 Serena Coetzee wrote a paper (2008) based on the SANS 1883 standard with
what seems to be a logical UML design to allow you to assign addresses to
an SG land parcel. (Adhering to a standard is the focus).

The current day Google Geolocation has an API which allows you to (with
help of JQuery) type an address that presents you with an x/y location of
this address and can pin point the exact land parcel. With the Google
public open licence an application may use up to 1000 address geolocations
searches per day.(Google receives its data from ?)

Why would an user want to implement SANS 1883 ?

Are there any SANS 1883 address DBs on a public domain accessible via an
API ?

If we decide to do an SANS 1883 address system, perhaps we should provide
an API.

Regards

Sarel Coetzer
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