[OSGeo Africa] South Africa Cadastral Data

[Grant Slater]

I have finally got access to a complete national dataset.

Very quick test rendering:
http://aerial.openstreetmap.org.za/erf.html (Aerial background)
http://aerial.openstreetmap.org.za/erf.html?layers=0BT (OpenStreetMap
background)

Thank you all for the help.

Regards
 Grant

On 2 October 2013 17:44, Walter Smit <walter.s at sa-solutions.co.za> wrote:
> We obviously get access to the raw vector data...perhaps we can make an
> arrangement. Send me a private email and I will see what we can get approval
> for.
>
>
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> -------- Original message --------
> From: Grant Slater <openstreetmap at firefishy.com>
> Date: 02/10/2013 16:43 (GMT+02:00)
> To: Africa local chapter discussions <africa at lists.osgeo.org>
> Subject: Re: [OSGeo Africa] South Africa Cadastral Data
>
>
> Hi Walter,
>
> On 2 October 2013 13:22, Walter Smit <walter.s at sa-solutions.co.za> wrote:
>> Hi Grant
>>
>> I can only speak for the Northern Cape and Freestate provinces - where the
>> SG makes all their data freely available on the web. And you can already
>> overlay it over several sources of aerial imagery (NGI, Google, Bing, topo
>> maps). Loosely based on Openlayers. The SG data displayed there are
>> automatically linked to the SG office internal system - updates run every
>> 2
>> weeks.
>>
>> You can register and access it here:
>>
>> http://spisys.gov.za/ - click on the Public View link.
>>
>
> Impressive site. Pleased to see OpenStreetMap (I am part of the OSM
> sysadmin team*) and my CD:NGI aerial imagery site listed as layers.
>
> *: We are all volunteers.
>
>> We could share the vector layers with you via WMS -if we get approval from
>> Dept Rural Development (under which CD:NGI and SPLUMB fall).
>>
>
> WMS wouldn't be sufficient. I want to get access to the
> unprocessed/un-rendered lines + polygon data. I have a few ideas for
> analysis.
> OpenStreetMap already has a basic data sharing agreement with CD:NGI
> via Dept Rural Development.
> I wonder how Google got the data.
>
> Regards
> Grant
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