<div dir="ltr">Excellent - thanks again for the great introductions here. I have started a simple list of datalayers on the wiki, but it is likely others who are more knowledgeable regarding local datasets will add (or subtract). In the meantime, here are the layers that came to my mind that might be available for Cape Town, in order of importance/interest:<div>
<div> * Province Boundary</div><div> * City Boundary</div><div> * Cape Town suburbs, subcouncils, and wards<br></div><div> * Any aerial imagery</div><div> * 2006 Census shapes and attributes (preferably all, but as above, Wards at the least)</div>
<div> * Streets / Other transportation (bus lines?)</div><div> * Informal Settlements ?<br></div><div> * Any spatial data related to urban renewal programme</div><div><br></div></div><div>For my workshop, we will be creating a simple database driven application, and it would be great to at least do simple proof-of-concept things (eg show all pts in a particular suburb), and possibly more complex things if data is easily available. My guess is that for most workshops, basic admin boundaries and any aerial imagery would be most interesting. For some of us, the extra detailed layers just mean we have more options.<br>
<br></div><div>Russell - would it be a problem to get any/all of the above layers? Is there a list of other layers you are aware of that might be available? In general, the more the merrier if it is not much extra trouble.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks so much for your assistance!</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div><div> -Josh</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 11:16 PM, Russell Hope <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Russell.Hope@capetown.gov.za">Russell.Hope@capetown.gov.za</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Hello Josh </span></font></p>
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<p><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">For City of Cape Town
data, please contact Mark van der Merwe; he will gladly assist with disseminating
City of Cape Town
data.</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">I have cc Mark in on this e-mail so you
can contact him directly, re format, data layers and acknowledgements </span></font></p>
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<p><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Regards </span></font></p>
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<p><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Russell
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<p><b><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold">From:</span></font></b><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma">
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[mailto:<a href="mailto:foss4g2008loc-bounces@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">foss4g2008loc-bounces@lists.osgeo.org</a>] <b><span style="font-weight:bold">On Behalf Of </span></b>Josh Livni<br>
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2008 5:03 PM<br>
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<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> [Foss4g2008loc] Local GIS
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<p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Hi,<br>
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I think it would be great if there was some repository of local (South Africa / Cape Town based ) GIS data available for
workshop presenters to integrate, as applicable.<br>
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In the workshop I am assisting with it would be great to provide local data to
integrate with. For example, if we could have some census, zoning,
street, or even the general municipality boundaries to work with, it would mean
our demo app could be aimed at the local region, which I think would be nice. <br>
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I was going to contact the GIS folks listed on the <a href="http://capetown.gov.za/" target="_blank">capetown.gov.za</a> site, but
figured I would check in here first to see if any of you locals or others have
already hit them up (what was their response?) or otherwise have located a public
download site for this type of data.<br>
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Obviously this is not an urgent matter for any workshops -- we can easily focus
on an area where there's lots of freely available data. But as long as
we're a bunch of GIS folks in Cape
Town, I figure we may as well see about getting our
hands on the local stuff.<br>
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Cheers,</span></font></p></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div>