I'm keen.
-Original Message-
From: Grant Slater
Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2012 9:33 PM
To: Openstreetmap ZA
Subject: [OSM-Talk-ZA] Mapping Party in Cape Town area?
Talk-ZA,
Anyone up for an OpenStreetMap mapping party in the Cape Town area
around the beginning of November?
Guidelines page helps for things like M / R / N
classifications, but we still need to use the main page for ones that aren't
South African specific.
Hope this helps. Someone else please correct me if I am wrong with any of this.
Regards,
Brendan Barrett
From: Rickus Viljoen
Sent: Wednesday
, so I don't think we'll
have a problem finding a nice spot. If someone get's hungry, i'm sure there
will be space.
Thoughts?
Regards,
Brendan Barrett
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From: Grant Slater openstreet...@firefishy.com
Sent: Monday, January 11, 2010 1:04 PM
Hey Grant, I am definitely in. Not fussy where.
Can you confirm if you mean the 18th or 28th? (subject line says 18th).
Regards,
Brendan Barrett
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From: Grant Slater openstreet...@firefishy.com
Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2010 12:47 AM
Last time I was there was about a year ago (was definitely not an adult
entertainment facility:P).
Not sure about the website:/ I just tried to call, and got no answer. I can
try again later.
Regards,
Brendan Barrett
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From: Grant Slater
as any to
ask permission again.
I'm pretty swamped with work at the moment, but let me see what contact
details I can dig up and let's see where this goes.
I'll mail you directly later this morning.
Regards,
Brendan Barrett
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From: Grant Slater
Hmmm... so we wait for the Welcome to ... signs to change:P
Regards,
Brendan Barrett
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From: Grant Slater openstreet...@firefishy.com
Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2009 4:19 PM
To: Brendan Barrett brendanbarr...@live.co.za
Cc: Openstreetmap ZA talk
Barrett
From: Trevor Hughes
Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2009 1:38 PM
To: Brendan Barrett
Subject: Re: [OSM-Talk-ZA] Cape Town Mapping Party
On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 7:47 PM, Brendan Barrett brendanbarr...@live.co.za
wrote:
Hey
Does anyone need a GPS for the 20th? (Assuming the 20th is ok
This is a very good article Heather.
In my opinion, you have framed the issue perfectly. Thanks for writing about
this.
Regards,
Brendan Barrett
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From: Heather Ford hfor...@gmail.com
Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 4:02 AM
To: Openstreetmap
Hey
Does anyone need a GPS for the 20th? (Assuming the 20th is ok for everyone).
Grant has offered to ship 3 (possibly 4) down if we need them.
On a side note, I'm going to check out the areas this weekend if I have time
and i'll try find a meeting spot.
Regards,
Brendan
need a tally, i'll kick the
vote off with Bloudberg / Sunningdale / Parklands.
I suppose once we have a general area, we can get a few suggestions together
for a meeting point.
Regards,
Brendan Barrett
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From: Grant Slater openstreet
://www.openstreetmap.org) when you click on the edit tab. I don't use it,
so I can't comment on it much.
Good luck
Regards,
Brendan Barrett
From: Zakiyya Ismail
Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2009 12:10 PM
To: talk-za@openstreetmap.org
Subject: [OSM-Talk-ZA] New Member Intro
Hi Everybody
I'm Zakiyya
://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Beginners%27_Guide ?
Regards,
Brendan Barrett
From: Eduard Grebe
Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 3:21 PM
To: talk-za@openstreetmap.org
Subject: [OSM-Talk-ZA] Introduction
Dear All
I apologise for bombarding your mailboxes. I am very keen on OSM, but am a
complete beginner
Nice idea, but I really wouldn't want to see OSM data polluted /
innaccurate. It would set a precedent. Unless of course we force that user
to stay on that street (then we would just be mapping what we see on the
ground):P
Regards,
Brendan Barrett
, is there not a risk of every newbie wanting their own road?
Where do we draw the line?
Regards,
Brendan Barrett
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From: Elizabeth Dodd ed...@billiau.net
Sent: Sunday, August 23, 2009 1:18 PM
To: talk@openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Awards
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Regards,
Brendan Barrett
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From: Adrian Moisey adr...@changeover.za.net
Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 9:10 AM
To: talk-za@openstreetmap.org
Subject: [OSM-Talk-ZA] Table View road names
Hi
I've noticed that the Table View area (http://osm.org
Grant,
That's great.
If we spot other areas that are misaligned, would we be able to pass those
on as well? Don't have any off hand, but curious to know if we could pass
them on when we find them?
Regards,
Brendan Barrett
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From: Grant Slater
have been very difficult to spot
otherwise. Check it out some time... but please be careful, fixing errors
becomes addictive!
Regards,
Brendan Barrett
Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2009 12:53:31 +0200
From: e9625...@gmx.at
To: t...@openstreetmap.org
Subject: [OSM
Seconded. It looks like a pretty straightforward area to map. The parks in the
area might make for an easy meeting place (looks like there's a shopping mall
near the N7 as well).
Regards,
Brendan Barrett
From: adr...@frith.co.za
To: talk-za
been following the mailing list, you'll notice
that no dates have been set, and venues are open to change.
Regards,
Brendan Barrett
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I agree with Martin. It would be nice to keep the map prominent on the
home page... but add more interactivity. Permalinks with markers would
be a big advantage as it would make the map more functional without
adding too much overhead. When I want to point something out to
someone, I send the URL
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 10:52 PM, Shaun
McDonaldsh...@shaunmcdonald.me.uk wrote:
Would zooming based on IP Address be a good idea?
Already done to the country level.
I'm in South Africa... and it defaults to the UK for me. Obviously if
I return to the site, then the cookie kicks in and the map
Those things are great... drive past them up the west coast every time
I go. If no-one has mapped them by next time I go, then i'll
definitely do so (might be a little while still till I go next).
They're just off the R27 up at the Darling turn off. The last time I
went up, the blades were
Ok, I couldn't wait and emailed Mr Oelsner for the coordinates.
I'll let you know if I get them.
Regards,
Brendan Barrett
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 10:32 AM, brendan barrettshogun...@gmail.com wrote:
Those things are great... drive past them up the west coast every time
I go. If no-one has
Agreed, we want to keep whiter than white, which is why we've been
going to great lengths to get permission from gov (SG, CD, SITA)...
even though the municipalities (and even some private mapping
companies - in Stellies and Mpumalanga) are literally throwing data at
us. I've got CD's and emailed
Is it just me or is Cape Town starting to look pretty good! I see
there are one or two new users adding to the Northern Suburbs by
tagging schools and parks etc. I think the addition of these area
shapes is starting to add a little more substance to the map.
This evening I mapped out Tygerberg
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Stephan Plepelits
sk...@xover.htu.tuwien.ac.at wrote:
Which are the countries with german language?
- Germany (ok, that's easy)
- Austria (people who don't confuse it with Austrlia should know)
- Switzerland (but not in all parts)
- Some villages in Brazil I
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 12:16 AM, Grant Slater
openstreet...@firefishy.com wrote:
If there is a demand, maybe we can look into a local download server for
data / tiles / etc.
That's an interesting question... Can we take a short survey? Might
help to determine local demand.
I download updates
Thanks
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Adrian Frith adr...@frith.co.za wrote:
Hi all,
In preparation for the API 0.6 upgrade I've converted the various import
files that we're using to the 0.6 format. They are available at
http://adrian.frith.co.za/osm-import/
Cheers,
Adrian
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Adrian
,
Adrian
On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 17:41 +0200, brendan barrett wrote:
I've been down with the flu and have slacked off my emails a bit.
Thanks for putting up that page. I gave it a quick update with regards
to the West Coast.
I received the data yesterday (Saldanha Municipality - WC014
So I may or may not have the West Coast Spatial Development
Department's spatial data for the West Coast (Saldanha municipality -
including Paternoster, St Helena, Langebaan, Vredenberg etc). The
files are public domain and there are no issues with us importing it.
They cover everything from
Frith adr...@frith.co.za wrote:
Where are you thinking of that should have more blue? Outside the
cities, very little of the national road network (except for the N3) is
divided highway as far as I can tell.
Cheers,
Adrian
On Sat, 2009-03-21 at 21:44 +0200, brendan barrett wrote:
Thanks
Thanks, that all makes sense. In that case, there should probably be a
lot more blue on the national routes. I suppose that the freeway
sections can only really be marked from ground observation - hence all
the green.
Regards,
Brendan
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 6:41 PM, Grant Slater
Please forgive the stupid question... but what is the criteria for
determining where a national route is a freeway, and when it isn't?
I see a lot of green national routes (highway=trunk) on the OSM site,
and i'm wondering why I am not seeing a lot of blue instead
(highway=motorway)?
Regards,
, rather it has
on-off ramps and bridges.
This makes them qualify for a blue stripe!
Regards,
Mark
- Original Message - From: brendan barrett shogun...@gmail.com
To: talk-za talk-za@openstreetmap.org
Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 2:45 PM
Subject: [OSM-Talk-ZA] National Routes - when
,
Brendan
If you are looking for more info on this, I suggest contacting the department.
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 11:06 PM, Grant Slater
openstreet...@firefishy.com wrote:
brendan barrett wrote:
There's no need to chat to them about feeding data back as they are
not going to maintain their data
a point of precedent.
At the moment you can get 1 in 50 thou shapefiles of the whole of
South Africa for a couple of hundred bucks.
If this were to be privatised, I'm sure that the price would go up
hundredfold, probably thousandfold.
2009/3/19 brendan barrett shogun...@gmail.com:
Grant
I
a walled garden. Pay or stay out and don't think of distributing
unless you pay megabucks more and stick to the license agreement. Forget
about innovating unless you have very deep pockets.
/ Grant
brendan barrett wrote:
Yeah, but without any details, I don't want to ring any alarm bells
there to whom this sounds interesting, who'd
like to work with some amazing (bright and super enthusiastic)
learners in Khayelitsha (aged 16 - 22), please contact me!
Thanks,
Joy
2009/3/17 brendan barrett shogun...@gmail.com
There's no need to chat to them about feeding data back
I have to say i'm siding with those in favour of validation as well.
Not for everything, but at the very least some kind of spell
checking utility when uploading from the editors. I've seen a number
of spelling mistakes when residential was clearly the intended tag
value. I have nearly uploaded
Hi everyone
I have received the street level maps for the Cape Town Metro from the
City. They have been quite helpful about it and don't mind us putting
the data into the Open Street Map project. I have already given this
data to a few people who requested it. If there is anyone else that
would
Got an FTP site I can put it up on?
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Jan de Jager jan...@mail2web.com wrote:
Could you add the data to an ftp site for us?
Regards
Jan de Jager
On 16 Jan 2009, at 11:01 AM, brendan barrett shogun...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi everyone
I have received the street
- particularly the Class values - and write up a Wiki page about the data.
Cheers,
Adrian
brendan barrett wrote:
Hey Grant,
I spoke to Dr. Solomon T Bhunu (Manager: Corporate Geo-Information
Systems) this morning again, and Mark Van de Marwe (head of Corporate
GIS for Cape Town) over the phone. I
Yeah, because none of us have any idea what we're doing, we're just a
bunch of clueless fuckwits that are intent on buggering up
everything.
I think this was a little harsh. When i'm working on a project, I
welcome any input I can get. It doesn't mean I stop doing what i'm
doing. It never hurts
I'm not going to speculate on the fruits of such an exercise. My point
is simply that if someone is willing to do so, then why stop them or
belittle their effort.
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 11:19 PM, Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu wrote:
brendan barrett wrote:
Yeah, because none of us have any idea
? Rather not reply at all.
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 12:32 AM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote:
Hi,
brendan barrett wrote:
I'm not going to speculate on the fruits of such an exercise. My point
is simply that if someone is willing to do so, then why stop them or
belittle their effort
I'm all in!
It would be nice to approach government on behalf of OSM as a
voluntary association or the like. This will help especially with all
the rest of the government data that we'd like to access.
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 1:32 PM, Grant Slater
openstreet...@firefishy.com wrote:
Adrian Frith
Thanx
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 8:32 PM, Grant Slater
openstreet...@firefishy.com wrote:
brendan barrett wrote:
Does anybody know why the ZA IRC channel isn't working? Or is it just me?
furion.org went away...
ZA channel now on Atrum:
irc://irc.Atrum.org/osm-za
Web based chat here:
http
I've only just joined the OSM Talk Mailing list and wanted to respond
to this message... so i've pasted some of it below the jump. 80n... if
you're bored in the evenings, how about thinking far away from home?
South Africa has good aerial photography for the major cities (Yahoo
Imagery)... wanna
De: talk-boun...@openstreetmap.org en nombre de brendan barrett
Enviado el: mar 30/12/2008 18:03
Para: talk@openstreetmap.org
Asunto: [OSM-talk] Where have all the contributors gone?
I've only just joined the OSM Talk Mailing list and wanted to respond
to this message... so i've pasted
On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 7:52 AM, Tanveer Singh tanveer1...@gmail.com wrote:
what is sad about it? In India only the very big cities have yahoo imagery -
and work is going on fairly well there. The rest of the country is a big
blank, and GPS instruments are not all that affordable. As the price
don't think the aerial photos will be a big loss, since we have the
Yahoo! satellite imagery covering Cape Town.
Cheers,
Adrian
On Tue, 2008-12-30 at 08:59 +0200, brendan barrett wrote:
Just to let you guys know, we've got permission to use the street
level data from the government
far:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=-29.8422lon=30.9316zoom=12
I'll gladly answer any questions you might have.
Regards
Grant Slater
OpenStreetMap South Africa.
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Regards
Grant
brendan barrett wrote:
FYI... I emailed someone from the Cape Town
I would ask what their license is on this data (if there is one), or
if it is in the public domain. Perhaps explain that the project would
allow others to use the data as well.
This sounds like a great idea. I might try this in Cape Town. Let me
know how this turns out.
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at
I found their agreement here:
http://citymaps.durban.gov.za/license_agreement.htm
Perhaps that helps others here with their advice.
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 5:40 PM, Grant Slater
openstreet...@firefishy.com wrote:
Legal,
On behalf of OpenStreetMap I asked a large city council (Durban, South
, brendan barrett shogun...@gmail.com wrote:
I found their agreement here:
http://citymaps.durban.gov.za/license_agreement.htm
Perhaps that helps others here with their advice.
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 5:40 PM, Grant Slater
openstreet...@firefishy.com wrote:
Legal,
On behalf of OpenStreetMap I
Hey
I've had an entertaining morning going through pretty much all of the
posts to this forum, and many of my initial questions are answered
already (OSM newbie here). I do have a question or two which i am
hoping someone here can help me answer.
I'm busy building an application that is looking
Thanks for the super quick reply.
On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 3:03 PM, Rob Myers wrote:
I am not a lawyer, this is not legal advice.
Understood.
On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 12:48 PM, brendan barrett wrote:
1. Would I be allowed to leave out the user and timestamp tags in
the version that I create
Yeah... but the maps won't go on the devices. they will go into the
software that runs on the desktop / laptop (Windows at first... then
later Linux Mac etc).
Thanks for the explanation. If they really want it we'd probably
release an API (and source for the API) in any case down the line, if
a
Come to think of it... that's not a bad idea. Perhaps we'll look at
allowing people to import their own maps into our software down the
line (provided they convert to our format... hence and API:P). We
might do that if it takes off.
Thanks.
On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 6:04 PM, brendan barrett wrote
If people want to reverse engineer it... that's fine:P I'm not sure
it's worth the effort as the files won't have anything extra in them.
They're just wasting time and effort that they could be putting
towards making OSM better. There won't be anything in the files that
isn't from the planet and
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