[OSGeo Africa] CRS in use in South Africa

[Jason Pretorius]

Hi Peter,

A lot of people use those coordinates for a number of things.

And in a lot of cases it is easier to retrive a diagram and capture the
coordinates from there, than to wait for a reply from the SGO.

Regards,

Jason Pretorius

On 24 January 2018 at 12:18, Peter Newmarch <newmarch at land-surveyors.com>
wrote:

> Dear all,
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> I am interested in peoples thoughts on the Coordinates on diagrams and
> general plans. For surveyors its simply duplicated work and plays no part
> in the registration of the diagram or general plan. From what I can see it
> was needed in an era of time to assist in plotting things by hand on paper.
> Land Surveyors don’t use coordinates in reconstructing properties and
> replacing beacons so they really serve no purpose on the diagram or general
> plan. The information is still in the survey records as a separate
> coordinate list so the SG can plot the property appropriately.
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> What are peoples thoughts about removing them and relying only on the SGO
> spatial data for such ?
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> Regards
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> *Peter Newmarch*
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