Hi Lance, Any links to the terms of the copyright? And if needs be, let's enter into such an agreement with the Surveyor-General!
I see no conceptual difference in "manually copying" (tracing by hand) information that is effectively in the public domain in South Africa, versus "programatically tracing" them (i.e. converting the data for direct upload). With our country's liberal "open data" policies, I am sure an amicable agreement could be entered into - but first, I would actually like to understand the limitations that state copyright imposes for myself. Having the cadastral information for South Africa missing from OpenStreetMap is the primary area where Google Maps has us beat. If we can get this in, it will transform the ability of this map to power truly useful navigational software, and simply take the map to another level. In my personal opinion, there can be no greater goal than this at this time! My programmer's hands are willing and able to assist where and if necessary, and I know that Norman would be more than willing to get in touch with the right people if some sort of agreement is required (somewhat a speciality of his :-) I can barely contain my excitement for the prospect of getting this data into OSM. kind regards, -- DAWID LOUBSER Systems Architect - Travellinck International Johannesburg, South Africa ------------------------------------------------------- mailto:[email protected] (E-Mail) tel:+27-82-655-0876 (Mobile) http://www.travellinck.com (Web) xmpp:[email protected] (Jabber) xmpp:[email protected] (Google Talk, deprecated) skype:dawid.loubser (Skype) ------------------------------------------------------- Op Di, 2013-10-01 om 17:54 +0200 skryf Lance Burger: > Copyright. The information is subject to state copyright. The OSM > Foundation has an agreement with the Chief Directorate: National > Geo-Spatial Information to use their data (which is also subject to > state copyright), but that does not include data held by other > departments, such as the Surveyor-General. Unless a similar agreement > is entered into with the Surveyor-General you cannot use the data. > > Lance Burger > > > On 01/10/2013 17:24, Norman Woodward wrote: > > > I live in the district of Mossel Bay. I obtained from the local council > > the cadastral erf co-ordinates and erf numbers, which I am told comes > > from general surveys office. I would like to convert the gps data to a > > layer, which would mean that the data layer now only containing the > > streets would also contain the drawn layout of all the erf's. My > > question is that I can not see that anyone else has done it and wonder why? > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Talk-ZA mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-za > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-ZA mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-za
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