Re: [OSM-Talk-ZA] Mapping traditional councils as boundary=aboriginal_lands

2019-07-14 Thread Adrian Frith
@Grant Slater you're on the DWG, right? And you have experience getting SA government people to release data. Do you have advice on how we should request and what form of release we need? I have a contact at DRDLR who sent me the shapefile. On Thu, 11 Jul 2019 at 20:51, Adrian Frith wrote

Re: [OSM-Talk-ZA] Mapping traditional councils as boundary=aboriginal_lands

2019-07-11 Thread Adrian Frith
d I'll > gladly support the effort. > > Do you have a rough idea of how many there are? > > Best, Reuben > > On Mon, 1 Jul 2019 at 15:20, Adrian Frith wrote: >> >> Hi talk-za, >> >> Do you think it would be appropriate for us to map the tr

[OSM-Talk-ZA] Mapping traditional councils as boundary=aboriginal_lands

2019-07-01 Thread Adrian Frith
Hi talk-za, Do you think it would be appropriate for us to map the traditional councils (formerly "tribal authorities") with the tag boundary=aboriginal_lands[1]? I have mapped one as an example (Batlhaping ba ga Mothibi) which you can see on the map at [2]. If we were to go ahead I suppose we

Re: [OSM-Talk-ZA] M1 looks weird

2012-07-24 Thread Adrian Frith
Hi talk-za, Speaking of the M1, I know that at least part of it is named the De Villiers Graaff Motorway. Does anyone know what section that name applies to? The whole thing from the end of the Golden Highway all the way to Buccleuch Interchange? Or maybe from the CBD to Buccleuch? Cheers,

[OSM-legal-talk] Some questions about using ODbL Produced Work maps in Wikipedia

2012-07-21 Thread Adrian Frith
attribution requirements of that license? Thanks, Adrian Frith ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Some questions about using ODbL Produced Work maps in Wikipedia

2012-07-21 Thread Adrian Frith
Hi again, On 21 July 2012 20:10, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: On 21.07.2012 18:19, Adrian Frith wrote: Do we really have to include the full notice Contains information from OpenStreetMap, which is made available here under the Open Database License (ODbL) in the caption of every

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Some questions about using ODbL Produced Work maps in Wikipedia

2012-07-21 Thread Adrian Frith
Hi, On 21 July 2012 21:04, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: On 21.07.2012 20:44, Adrian Frith wrote: If it were any different, you could team up with a co-publisher, publish your ODbL Produced Works to him and he forwards them to the world without you ever having to release anything

Re: [OSM-Talk-ZA] South African Suburbs?

2011-12-27 Thread Adrian Frith
On 25 November 2011 14:18, Dawid Loubser da...@travellinck.com wrote: First post on this list! I have a question: In analysing the OpenStreetmap data for South Africa, it appears as if only the central points of Suburbs exist, and not the polygons (boundaries). Am I missing something? Any idea

[OSM-Talk-ZA] New municipal boundaries

2011-04-05 Thread Adrian Frith
As you may know, lots of municipal boundaries will be changing after the elections on 18 May. I've got the new boundary data and I'm ready to upload it once the changes go into effect. I'd like to request in advance that no-one edits anything tagged boundary=administrative for a few days before

Re: [OSM-Talk-ZA] OSM sightings

2010-11-17 Thread Adrian Frith
On Tuesday 16 November 2010 18:36:58 Grant Slater wrote: On 15 November 2010 20:34, Adrian Frith adr...@frith.co.za wrote: First one on the Daily Mail website, on the article about the tourist murdered in Gugulethu: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1329885/Pictured- wedding-day

Re: [OSM-Talk-ZA] Table View road names

2009-08-19 Thread Adrian Frith
://htonl.dev.openstreetmap.org/cape-town/ (it was broken by an OpenLayers update, but I've fixed it now). Cheers, Adrian (Frith) -- Adrian Frith - adrian.fr...@uct.ac.za - +27 21 650 3205 Laboratory of Foundational Aspects in Computer Science Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics

[OSM-Talk-ZA] API 0.6-ready import files

2009-04-17 Thread Adrian Frith
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 -- Adrian Frith E-mail: adr...@frith.co.za Jabber: adr...@frith.co.za Website: http

[OSM-Talk-ZA] [Fwd: [OSM-talk] IMPORTANT - OSM API upgrade - Read Only access mode from 09:00 UTC Fri 17th April]

2009-04-16 Thread Adrian Frith
Forwarded Message From: Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) ajrli...@googlemail.com To: t...@openstreetmap.org Subject: [OSM-talk] IMPORTANT - OSM API upgrade - Read Only access mode from 09:00 UTC Fri 17th April Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 11:28:45 +0100 Dear OpenStreetMap Users, This

Re: [OSM-Talk-ZA] municipality contact tracking via wiki

2009-04-08 Thread Adrian Frith
Talk-ZA@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-za ___ Talk-ZA mailing list Talk-ZA@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-za -- Adrian Frith E-mail: adr...@frith.co.za Jabber: adr...@frith.co.za

Re: [OSM-Talk-ZA] National Routes - when are they freeways?

2009-03-22 Thread Adrian Frith
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, that all makes sense. In that case,

[OSM-talk] Computing the 12-mile line

2009-02-20 Thread Adrian Frith
For those of you who have been adding the 12-mile territorial waters line: did you calculate that data by offsetting the coastline/baseline? And if so, how did you do it? I mean: what software did you use, and how? Thanks, Adrian ___ talk mailing list

Re: [OSM-Talk-ZA] Tagging: Minibus Taxi Rank

2009-01-31 Thread Adrian Frith
On Sun, 2009-02-01 at 02:25 +0200, Nic Roets wrote: My vote is for anything that includes amenity=bus_station, e.g. amenity=bus_station minibus_taxi_rank=yes Then it will show up on more renderers and public transport queries. I agree; minibus taxis are in a sense just smaller buses.

[OSM-Talk-ZA] a note about projections

2009-01-16 Thread Adrian Frith
If you're working with the City of Cape Town data, you may have noticed that it's in a Transverse Mercator projection rather than WGS84 coordinates. I've discovered that you can produce a WGS84 shapefile by running: ogr2ogr -t_srs WGS84 Roads-WGS84.shp Roads.shp on a Linux system with GDAL

[OSM-Talk-ZA] Initial render of Cape Town data

2009-01-16 Thread Adrian Frith
Hi folks, I've converted the City of Cape Town data to OSM format and run it through Mapnik; you can see an initial render at http://adrian.frith.co.za/capetown-city-data-render.png (warning: 1MB PNG). I'm busy now rendering tiles so I can set up a slippy map view of the data. If anyone wants

Re: [OSM-Talk-ZA] Tagging

2008-11-24 Thread Adrian Frith
Mark Williams wrote: Hi Guys, Perhaps in certain cases the physical functionality of the road may need to have higher priority than its network classification (as in Nics' example). I think we all know of roads that are unclassified or secondary etc. that seem to be major routes! This

Re: [OSM-talk] mapping houses

2008-08-01 Thread Adrian Frith
On Friday 01 August 2008 11:14:18 Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: Hi, apart from landuse=residential, there is are no tags for differentiating residential buildings. Given that the largest number of buildings are residential there is a case for tags for types of buildings: [snip] comments

[OSM-talk] administrative boundaries that run along roads - in the Mapnik layer

2008-02-10 Thread Adrian Frith
Hi All, In Cape Town we've been mapping the suburb boundaries (which are official) as boundary=administrative admin_level=10. These boundaries run often down the middle of roads, railways or rivers. They show up very nicely on the Osmarender/[EMAIL PROTECTED] layer as dashed red lines - see for

Re: [OSM-talk] administrative boundaries that run along roads - in the Mapnik layer

2008-02-10 Thread Adrian Frith
On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 10:46 +1300, Robin Paulson wrote: I'd rather vote to prefer highways. Administrative boundaries are only useful for... the administration. maybe, maybe not. but if we represent them with a fine enough line, they should not interfere with roads, which physically need

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] Osmarender requested enhancements

2008-01-24 Thread Adrian Frith
On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 13:16 +1300, Robin Paulson wrote: On 25/01/2008, Robert Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 17/01/2008, Gervase Markham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [As always, please redirect me if necessary.] Could osmarender please be taught to render highway=ford? There are

[OSM-Talk-ZA] Getting free data from the City of Cape Town

2007-11-16 Thread Adrian Frith
Hey all, I was thinking - Simon Grindrod expressed his support for OSM mapping Cape Town in that CapeInfo newsletter[1]. Maybe we can get him to actually get the city administration to provide us with the data that backs up the streetfinder[2] in a format that we could use to directly import to