Hi John, yes you are right, this is the place, pretty much unmapped :-) Bing sucks in that area, I was there last week and did some mapping, plus I have NGI aerial photo...
Plus we have some local guys helping us to map in an old way - paper based mapping and then digitalisation to the OSM. Jirka 2012/8/21 John <[email protected]>: > Hi Jirka, > > To get some context is this the Koffiekraal you are referring to? > > http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=-25.529&lon=27.416&zoom=9&mlat=-25.27556&mlon=26.42222&layers=M > > If so it it pretty unmapped!! Bing only covers it at lowest resolution. > > Do you plan to camp out there?? It will definitely need local support. > > All the best, > > Regards, > John > > On 21 August 2012 10:33, Jirka Panek <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I am a GIS researcher from the Czech Republic >> (http://www.development.upol.cz/cs_CZ/lide/jiri-panek) and currently I >> am visiting the University of South Africa (UNISA), where we do >> participatory mapping/GIS in village called Koffiekraal (NW). We would >> like to use this place as an example how participatory community >> mapping can look like in order to empower local communities and "place >> it on a map". >> >> I wanted to ask, if there are any volunteers who would like to help me >> mapping the Koffiejkraal village, as there is basically nothing on OSM >> so far. >> >> Thanks and keep well >> >> JirkaPanek >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-ZA mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-za > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-ZA mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-za _______________________________________________ Talk-ZA mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-za
