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

2019-07-14 Thread Sindile Bidla
Hi List, This would be a great effort. I do not think though that the tag boundary=aboriginal_lands is appropriate in the case of South Africa in particular when one considers its definition - https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:boundary%3Daboriginal_lands To emphasize my point none of

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
There are 800 in the shapefile that I have from DRLDR. I guess the next step is to get permission from them and then talk to the Data Working Group. On Sat, 6 Jul 2019 at 10:47, Reuben Honigwachs via Talk-ZA wrote: > > Since nobody has chimed in, yet, let me say this is a wonderful idea and I'll

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

2019-07-06 Thread Reuben Honigwachs via Talk-ZA
Since nobody has chimed in, yet, let me say this is a wonderful idea and 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

[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