[OSGeo Africa] Africa pre-colonial map

[Tim Sutton]

Hi Chris



> On 30 Jul 2018, at 09:29, Chris <chris at airphotoafrica.co.za> wrote:
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> Tim ;
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> I have cced you in this reply of mine as it appears that my posts seem to disappear. No idea why ? or who the "moderator" is that decides to -- junk them ?


Gavin (in CC) is moderator, let's see if he can help.

> 
> WHY involve something technical and scientific with something political ?

I don’t take any specific public position on the content of the map but the technical considerations and cartography are interesting I think and hopefully of general interest to those on this list since it pertains both to Africa and OSGEO. Having a good understanding of pre-colonial political / tribal boundaries would probably contribute a lot to a more informed debate in the South African context too. I wonder if anyone knows of public pre-colonial political boundary datasets like this that I can open in my trusty QGIS and share on online?

I would suggest you take any discussion of the topic to the upstream OSGEO list if possible:

https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Upstream thread is here:

https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2018-July/037675.html

> 
> IF you want serious maps ( even of Africa ) why not try the International Cartographic Society
> 
> https://icaci.org


Thanks for sharing the link!

Regards

Tim


> 
> Cheers
> 
> Chris
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> 
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> And so have all Lordes , that landes do possesse.
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>        Yet do I not wrong but measure all trueley.
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> On 30 Jul 2018 at 8:59, Tim Sutton wrote:
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> > Hi List
> >
> > There is some discussion going on in the OSGEO Discuss and OSGEO Live
> > mailing lists about potentially using this pre-colonial map of Africa for
> > the OSGEO-Live CD Cover. If you live in Africa (I guess that is a check
> > mark for most of us) take the time to visit the link below, look at the
> > thought provoking maps and share your voice with the OSGEO Live team! See
> > email below:
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> > Regards
> >
> > Tim
> >
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> > >
> > > Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeoLive] Suggestions for a background
> > > image for next OSGeoLive - with an African theme
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I take this occasion to share this map of Africa that I like. It was
> > > Africa if colonialism had not occurred as imagined by Nikolaj Cyon :
> > >
> > > https://www.cyon.se/#/alkebulan-1260-ah/
> > > <https://www.cyon.se/#/alkebulan-1260-ah/>
> > >
> > > If the Africa Local Chapter and the Dar es Salaam LOC likes it too, we
> > > could try to contact the artist and see if we can use it...
> > >
> > > Kind Regards,
> > > Maë//e
> >
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