<div dir="ltr">Hi Grant (and Aslam)<div><br></div><div>I downloaded this from <a href="https://ngigeoportal.dlrrd.gov.za/cdngiportal/" target="_blank">https://ngigeoportal.dlrrd.gov.za/cdngiportal/</a>.</div><div><br></div><div>Instead of downloading the 2528CA 1:50 000 map from the portal, which I am very familiar with, I must have clicked somewhere that I indeed up with a provisioned file of around 25GB with the zip containing the files 2528CA_0.ige, 2528CA_0.img and 2528CA_0.pyrx.</div><div><br></div><div>I later went through the whole portal, and especially looked in the Imagery/Aerial Photography and Imagery/Ortho_rectified subsections, but could not find anything close to what I ended up with. </div><div><br></div><div>I have downloaded numerous data sets from the portal including imagery, and the provisioning of the download file took not a lot of time. Imagery was always in tiff format, but this one ended up in .img format, and took over three hours before I got the download link.</div><div><br></div><div>I downloaded the 2528CA and 2528CC maps late yesterday, and also ended up with .img files, so I do not know why it is supplied in .img format now. Maps I downloaded (if I can recall, as my last map download was on the old portal, over a year ago, and that was in tiff)</div><div><br></div><div>If this helps, the provisioned file was named provision-C923hluRQbKsSqfGW38hAQ.zip, so the provision job was provision-C923hluRQbKsSqfGW38hAQ.</div><div><br></div><div>Pieter</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jun 11, 2026 at 2:13 PM Aslam Parker <<a href="mailto:Aslam.Parker@dlrrd.gov.za" target="_blank">Aslam.Parker@dlrrd.gov.za</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Gandalf the Gray via Africa<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 11 June 2026 13:36<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [OSGeo Africa] Being dumb<u></u><u></u></span>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I have not received any response from CDNGI.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Tue, Jun 9, 2026 at 9:13<span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span>PM Gandalf the Gray <<a href="mailto:pjduplooy.gis@gmail.com" target="_blank">pjduplooy.gis@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear Great GeoWizard<u></u><u></u></p>
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<a href="mailto:sales@dlrrd.gov.za" target="_blank">sales@dlrrd.gov.za</a> for support and assistance with the portal.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">You can browse the catalogue and download the .tif file as well.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Aslam Parker</span></b><u></u><u></u></p>
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• <a href="http://www.ngi.dlrrd.gov.za/" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">www.ngi.dlrrd.gov.za</span></a></span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">From:<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> Africa <<a href="mailto:africa-bounces@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">africa-bounces@lists.osgeo.org</a>>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Gandalf the Gray via Africa<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 09 June 2026 19:57<br>
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<b>Cc:</b> Gandalf the Gray <<a href="mailto:pjduplooy.gis@gmail.com" target="_blank">pjduplooy.gis@gmail.com</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [OSGeo Africa] Being dumb</span><span lang="EN-GB"> </span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I wanted to download a 50K map from CDNGI today, and in stead downloaded a product of which I cannot find the origin layer on the CDNGI portal.<u></u><u></u></p>
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