Dear OpenStreetMap ZA contributors,
A few of us have negotiated an agreement with Chief Directorate:
National Geo-Spacial Information ("CD:NGI") (part of the South African
Department of Rural Development and Land Reform) to make some of their
mapping datasets available to the project. The agreement does not
include data collected and held by municipalities.
In terms of the agreement we have to let CD:NGI know of any
inaccuracies in their data or changes to the data imported from
CD:NGI. All data we use must be tagged with "source=CD:NGI".
This is a huge amount of data, in effect it means that we can
comprehensively map the whole of South Africa at least to the level of
the 1:50 000 topographic maps, and probably a lot more detail.
The vector data is in shapefile format (12.6 GB). We also have access
to rectified national aerial imagery of between 0.5m and 1m, captured
between 2007 and 2011.
The difficulty is setting up a process and method for importing the
data in an effective way, while merging it with our better existing
data. We need help. If you have experience with python, java, Open
Source GIS etc your help would be appreciated.
Who can help?
Regards
Grant Slater
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