[OSGeo Africa] Free South African Aerial Imagey WMS Layer

[Gerhardus Geldenhuis]

Hi Graeme,
OSM has indeed received fantastic contributions from NGI which has really
helped to improve the OSM dataset. We have been working on importing a lot
of the data and doing conflation against existing OSM data. There is so
much good data available in SA but unfortunately a lot of it is only
commercially available or has restrictive licensing. Eskom for example has
a great database that covers all dwellings in SA but it is strictly
protected. I would love to see a more open and unrestricted approach from
business in South Africa with regards to sharing their data with no strings
attached. OSM has had great contributions from vehicle tracking companies
that provide anonymised vehicle tracking information which is used by other
tools to suggest corrections for roads and can be used by navigation tools
to calculate traffic flow and speed.

The address database in SA is also not what it should be and we have been
working hard as OSM volunteers to improve it. It certainly has the
potential to be better than anything you can get commercially, certainly
more up to date but it is not there yet.

Regards



On 23 September 2014 12:10, Graeme McFerren <gmcferren at csir.co.za> wrote:

> Kudos to NGI for helping to make this kind of data openly available on the
> Internet. It would be a really nice story to tell about some of the other
> NGI contributions to OSM (I am assuming there are other contributions) or
> other databases.
>
>
> Regards
> Graeme
>
>
> >>> Frank Sokolic <sokolic at worldonline.co.za> 09/23/14 12:17 PM >>>
>
> Hi Chlodwik,
>
> Try using the file I've attached. In QGIS go to Add Raster Layer, set
> files to All Files then open this file. It pulls aerial photos from the
> aerial.openstreetmap.org.za website.
>
> Regards, Frank.
>
>
> On 23/09/2014 11:00, Chlodwik Rossouw wrote:
> > Hi all
> >
> > Would anyone perhaps know of a free aerial imagery WMS layer (Highest
> > resolution possible coastal or national South African coverage) that I
> > will be able to pull into QGIS?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Chlodwik
> >
> >
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