[OSGeo Africa] Urban vs Rural municipalities

[Zoltan Szecsei]

On 2014/09/15 21:39, Aslam Parker wrote:
> Dear Colleagues
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> We have been asked to map existing  outstanding land claims according this to rural/urban.
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> I have made the assumption that all claims in Metros are urban. Now for the remaining claims.
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> I would sincerely appreciate your urgent advise on how to determine this.
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Hi Aslam,

Would you care to share what your base information/knowledge about the 
locations of the land claim(ed) parcels is?
Looking at the previous responses you have had, we are all just stabbing 
in the dark.

For example:

      * The date of the land claim is very relevant.  What was rural
        then, might well be urban now (due to urban crawl)
      * Do (all?) the Land Claims actually have geo-referencing? - Or
        are we still looking at claims like: "I used to graze my cattle
        from this tree to that bit of erosion"
        Yes, it's likely that that form of description might beg the
        simplicity of "Oh, that's definitely Rural" - but what about the
        (not thaaat much) earlier Constantia, Phillipi and other similar
        "was agricultural, now built-up" areas around the country?

What I'm trying to say, is that what is urban now, might not have been 
urban at the time of forced removal of occupants.
I'm also guessing that those "was rural now urban" claims are going to 
be the hot ones, due to the value of the "improvements" on those pieces 
of land.

So if you'd care to paint us a more detailed picture, I'm sure this 
community will likely come up with some novel thoughts.

Kind regards,
Zoltan

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