Take a look here... Grant has already started the Wiki Page: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_South_Africa/Cape_Town_Import
Regards Brendan On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 3:07 PM, Adrian Frith <adr...@frith.co.za> wrote: > I'm going to try, as a first step, to convert the whole shapefile to OSM, > render it with mapnik and set up a custom openlayers on my webserver, so we > can all see what the data looks like. I'm hopeful that I may be able to get > it done this weekend. > > I've taken a quick look at the data, and it has: > - "SegName" and "Suffix", which gives the name of the street > - "Seg_Type", which seems to be about access, and can be Public, Private or > Complex > - "Route_No", which is the road number we see on the map (R300, M5, etc.) > - "Class", which is their classification of the road; we'll need to work out > an appropriate mapping to OSM "highway" values > - "Road_No", which is some kind of internal road numbering > - "Drive", which also seems to be some kind of classification, but is mostly > empty > - "Speed", which is the limit in km/hr > - a bunch of other fields which aren't really relevant for us > > I'm still at work now, but once I get home I'll start looking at the values > - 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 have explained that the data will >> be available to anyone that wants it via the project, corporate and >> personal alike. They both said that the disclaimer if for their >> protection. It looks like their concern is that property developers >> and the like do not take them to task for inaccurate data. I asked for >> the letter confirming our distribution of the data via Open Street Map >> and Mark said that he's given us the data, and that we can use it... >> they don't seem bothered about the letter. >> >> As far as uploading into OSM is concerned. If someone would like to >> take that role, i'd be relieved. I haven't managed an import yet >> (still new to OSM). perhaps you would like to coordinate the upload? >> I'd appreciate the direction. >> >> Regards, >> Brendan >> >> On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Grant Slater >> <openstreet...@firefishy.com> wrote: >> >>> >>> Brendan Barrett wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> Hi Ryan, Grant >>>> >>>> >>>> I have set up a user account in OSM for the import "Cape Town Import". >>>> There is also it's own email account at gmail. Please use this username >>>> when >>>> importing this Cape Town Data. If there is a problem down the road, it >>>> will >>>> allow us to identify data from the import. The user name and password >>>> are: >>>> >>>> >>>> User Name: capetownimp...@gmail.com >>>> >>>> Password: 6S7tn9n9 >>>> >>>> >>>> Adrian Frith suggested we use "source=City of Cape Town" to attribute >>>> the >>>> data, i'd like to stick with that if possible. >>>> >>>> The data is available to import into OSM, but I wouldn't use it for any >>>> other use as I haven't asked for permission for anything other than OSM >>>> import. I'm not sure what copyright issues we'll get into if we do. We >>>> can >>>> of course use the OSM stuff after the import. IANAL etc. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> Brendan, >>> >>> I HIGHLY recommend that only one person is responsible for the uploading >>> to >>> OSM. Lets not rush uploading anything. >>> >>> I am a little worried about the "copyright and disclaimer form.doc" file. >>> Do >>> they realise once the data is uploaded to OSM, the data is available >>> under >>> the OpenStreetMap license to anyone? The OSM license specially allows >>> commercial usage and redistribution. >>> >>> regards >>> Grant >>> >>> > > _______________________________________________ Talk-ZA mailing list Talk-ZA@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-za
