<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Hi Ryk<div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On 15 Aug 2016, at 9:59 AM, Ryk Taljaard <<a href="mailto:ryk@boundaryhunter.co.za" class="">ryk@boundaryhunter.co.za</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">Hi Tim,<br class=""><br class="">thank you for the summary.<br class=""><br class="">The 1st time I heard about this event was only between 10 days and 2 weeks before it happened.<br class="">Any chance of maybe an earlier warning next time such an event takes place?<br class=""></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Yes we will certainly try do do that next time!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Regards</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Tim</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class="">Thanks again & Best regards<br class=""><br class="">RYK TALJAARD<br class="">Boundary Hunter<br class="">Mobile: 082 895 2906 Fax2Email: 086 621 1336<br class="">P.O. Box 7352 P Noorder-Paarl 7623 SOUTH AFRICA<br class="">Web: <a href="http://www.boundaryhunter.co.za" class="">www.boundaryhunter.co.za</a> Email: <a href="mailto:ryk@boundaryhunter.co.za" class="">ryk@boundaryhunter.co.za</a><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">-----Original Message-----<br class="">From: Africa [<a href="mailto:africa-bounces@lists.osgeo.org" class="">mailto:africa-bounces@lists.osgeo.org</a>] On Behalf Of <a href="mailto:africa-request@lists.osgeo.org" class="">africa-request@lists.osgeo.org</a><br class="">Sent: 15 August 2016 09:09 AM<br class="">To: <a href="mailto:africa@lists.osgeo.org" class="">africa@lists.osgeo.org</a><br class="">Subject: Africa Digest, Vol 114, Issue 17<br class=""><br class="">Send Africa mailing list submissions to<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="mailto:africa@lists.osgeo.org" class="">africa@lists.osgeo.org</a><br class=""><br class="">To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/africa<br class="">or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>africa-request@lists.osgeo.org<br class=""><br class="">You can reach the person managing the list at<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>africa-owner@lists.osgeo.org<br class=""><br class="">When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific<br class="">than "Re: Contents of Africa digest..."<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Today's Topics:<br class=""><br class=""> 1. Some feedback on the Open GIS data day held at NGI<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>on Friday<br class=""> (Tim Sutton)<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">----------------------------------------------------------------------<br class=""><br class="">Message: 1<br class="">Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2016 09:09:00 +0200<br class="">From: Tim Sutton <tim@kartoza.com><br class="">To: Africa local chapter discussions <africa@lists.osgeo.org><br class="">Subject: [OSGeo Africa] Some feedback on the Open GIS data day held at<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>NGI<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>on Friday<br class="">Message-ID: <6EB8F806-347E-42FF-B9C0-C8FC0021A8DB@kartoza.com><br class="">Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"<br class=""><br class="">Hi All<br class=""><br class="">I just wanted to give a little feedback on the open day held at NGI on friday. There were around 30 attendees and a variety of talks about open data and all the cool stuff you can do with it. I think the main take home for me is that in general (though not always) there is great willingness to share data within South African National and local government but there is room for improvement, especially in these areas:<br class=""><br class="">* Providing adequate metadata with data so we can see what the data is, when it was created / last updated etc. and whether the data is canonical or not<br class="">* Making data more easily accessible - especially with 'clip and ship' and tiling / OGC services for spatial data<br class="">* Making people in public office understand that it is good for the wellbeing of your citizens and local economy to share data gathered with tax payer money so that more data can be opened up (e.g. especially from smaller communities)<br class=""><br class="">The talks highlighted some great examples of how interesting insights can be obtained from public data.<br class=""><br class="">Following the talks there was an open discussion segment, and I particularly enjoyed the chat about projections with Aslam Parker. It inspired me to have a play around a bit more with projections in QGIS...one thing led to another and I landed up doing this:<br class=""><br class="">https://gist.github.com/timlinux/1057c2c6b5ebda6ed2b5aa8c5aa21372<br class=""><br class="">I'm looking forward to future meet ups with he FOSS GIS / Open Data community - Aslam has kindly offered the venue at NGI for future meet ups, so watch this space!<br class=""><br class="">Regards<br class=""><br class="">Tim<br class="">—<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Tim Sutton<br class=""><br class="">Co-founder: Kartoza<br class="">Project chair: QGIS.org<br class=""><br class="">Visit http://kartoza.com <http://kartoza.com/> to find out about open source:<br class=""><br class="">Desktop GIS programming services<br class="">Geospatial web development<br class="">GIS Training<br class="">Consulting Services<br class=""><br class="">Skype: timlinux<br class="">IRC: timlinux on #qgis at freenode.net<br class=""><br class="">Kartoza is a merger between Linfiniti and Afrispatial<br class=""><br class="">-------------- next part --------------<br class="">An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<br class="">URL: <http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/africa/attachments/20160815/8b215fd1/attachment.html><br class="">-------------- next part --------------<br class="">A non-text attachment was scrubbed...<br class="">Name: KartozaNewLogoThumbnail.jpg<br class="">Type: image/jpeg<br class="">Size: 6122 bytes<br class="">Desc: not available<br class="">URL: <http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/africa/attachments/20160815/8b215fd1/attachment.jpg><br class="">-------------- next part --------------<br class="">A non-text attachment was scrubbed...<br class="">Name: signature.asc<br class="">Type: application/pgp-signature<br class="">Size: 455 bytes<br class="">Desc: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail<br class="">URL: <http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/africa/attachments/20160815/8b215fd1/attachment.sig><br class=""><br class="">------------------------------<br class=""><br class="">Subject: Digest Footer<br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Africa mailing list<br class="">Africa@lists.osgeo.org<br class="">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/africa<br class=""><br class="">------------------------------<br class=""><br class="">End of Africa Digest, Vol 114, Issue 17<br class="">***************************************<br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Africa mailing list<br class="">Africa@lists.osgeo.org<br class="">You can UNSUBSCRIBE at http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/africa<br class=""></blockquote><br class=""><div class=""><span>—</span><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); 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font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; margin: 0px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><b class="">Tim Sutton</b></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; margin: 0px; line-height: normal; 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