Hi I would gladly help doing work on imports if needed, thus volunteering time and skills. I have spend significant time tracing river banks for the Vaal river so would certainly not like to see that effort going to waste.
The original reason that prompted my email was that I noted that a large section of the Vaal River was not even traced (East of Standerton). Then I wondered were the river actually started and could not find an easy answer. A google revealed the dwaf.gov.za site which prompted me to send the email. I have spend time tracing other rivers and streams and would love to add the correct and official names to these and the dwaf.gov.za data would seem from my brief glance to be usefull. Regards On 28 January 2013 06:52, Lance Burger <[email protected]> wrote: > ** > This data comes from CD:NGI. It is either the same data or a lower > resolution data from the shape files that we obtained from CD:NGI under the > agreement OSM Foundation has with CD:NGI. I suggest that you rather use > the shapefiles that we have and import those. In terms of the agreement > all those imports need the tag "source=CD:NGI" > > The tracing from aerial photograph needs the tag, but I cannot remember > what tag we agreed on. > > Grant, was it: "source=aerialCDNGI"? > > We should put this information on the South Africa Wiki. > > The imports will have to be by small areas at a time, so as to make sure > that we do not over write better data that we already have. Grant Slater > asked for some help doing the import some time ago, but I am not sure how > many takers there were, if any. > > Lance Burger > > > On Sun, 2013-01-27 at 21:10 +0000, Gerhardus Geldenhuis wrote: > > Hi > > I just came accross this link: > > > http://www.dwaf.gov.za/iwqs/gis_data/river/rivs500k.html > > > > The information is made available "as is" with no copyright mentioned > that I could see. Given the lack of good river tracing covering the whole > of South Africa would this be worthwhile spending some time on importing > if the legal side is clean? > > > > Regards > > -- > Gerhardus Geldenhuis > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-ZA mailing > [email protected]http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-za > > > -- Gerhardus Geldenhuis
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