[OSGeo Africa] Historic Topographic Map Series of Namibia now online

[Tim Sutton]

Hi Immo and others interested:

I made a little blog post showing how to add the NGI toposheets and the Nambia toposheets to QGIS here:

http://kartoza.com/en/blog/how-to-easily-add-south-african-and-namibian-toposheets-as-xyz-tiles-to-qgis/

Regards

Tim

> On 09 Jan 2019, at 11:21, Immo Blecher <immob19 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Thank you Grant,
> 
> Nice work!!!
> 
> @Tim: Any idea how to get the South African version working  on QGIS. I tried https://htonl.dev.openstreetmap.org/ngi-tiles/tiles/50k/ <https://htonl.dev.openstreetmap.org/ngi-tiles/tiles/50k/>{z}/{x}/{y}.png but it does not work. I guess I'm doing something wrong.
> 
> I would love to get more people to see the good work and maybe contribute/donate to the project (QGIS list).
> 
> Regards
> 
> Immo
> 
> On 2019/01/08 13:53, Tim Sutton wrote:
>> Hi
>> 
>> Wow that is really cool! I was able to easily add the Nambia toposheet tiles to QGIS 3.x using this XYZ Connection URL:
>> 
>> https://namibia-topo.openstreetmap.org.za/layer/na_sgswa_topo_50k/{z}/{x}/{y}.png <https://namibia-topo.openstreetmap.org.za/layer/na_sgswa_topo_50k/%7Bz%7D/%7Bx%7D/%7By%7D.png>
>> 
>> @Grant any chance you can make the non map areas transparent instead of black?
>> 
>> Regards
>> 
>> Tim
>> 
>>> On 08 Jan 2019, at 13:10, Grant Slater <openstreetmap at firefishy.com <mailto:openstreetmap at firefishy.com>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi All,
>>> 
>>> I am very pleased to say I now have the 1970s / 1980s 1:50k
>>> topographic series of Namibia online:
>>> 
>>> https://namibia-topo.openstreetmap.org.za/ <https://namibia-topo.openstreetmap.org.za/>
>>> 
>>> I was able to purchase scans of 1218 of the required 1221 sheets from
>>> Madmappers.com and run a nearly successful GoFundMe campaign to recoup
>>> costs, which will allow me follow up with other countries:
>>> https://www.gofundme.com/namibian-topographic-maps <https://www.gofundme.com/namibian-topographic-maps>
>>> 
>>> If anyone is able to help me get good scans of the following sheets it
>>> would be very much appreciated.
>>> 
>>> * Sheet 1712CC (missing)
>>> * Sheet 1819BB (missing)
>>> * Sheet 1820AA (missing)
>>> * Sheet 1712BD_Okakora_Ed-1-sgswa_1980 (poor quality scan)
>>> * Sheet 2214CB-DA-Swakopmund_Ed-1-sgswa_1981 (poor quality scan)
>>> * Sheet 2214CD-DC_Walvisbaai_Ed-1-sgswa_1981  (poor quality scan)
>>> * Sheet 2314CB-DA_photomap_Ed-1-sgswa_1980  (poor quality scan)
>>> 
>>> Any feedback or comment?
>>> 
>>> Any recommendations on which country to try next? Any help greatly appreciated.
>>> 
>>> Kind regards,
>>> 
>>> Grant
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