Grant, thanks for your awesome work! These will be *so* useful - I wonder when / if we could get similar for other provinces?
P.S. Has anybody spotted an interesting shark or whale in the water yet? I'm trying. But the res is good enough to spot some great bird flying formations :-) regards, Dawid On 07/09/2016 16:05, Grant Slater wrote: > Hi, > > Yup... I forgot to move osm.org.za + openstreetmap.org.za by the > suspend deadline. I had a real adventure moving them to a new > registrar and getting them unblocked. > I was in good company: > http://firefishy.com/orgza-domains-suspended-05092016-top.txt ;-) > > Yes, the City of Cape Town aerial imagery is AWESOME! If you squint at > the aerial imagery of Sandy Bay, it is just about possible to tell if > someone is wearing a swimming costume. ;-) > Link reminder: http://coct.aerial.openstreetmap.org.za/ > > I haven't updated the NGI aerial imagery since 2014. *hides in shame* > I've received updated source files from NGI and plan to update it soon. > > Kind regards, > > Grant > > > On 7 September 2016 at 13:54, Kieron Thwaites <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Thanks for the effort Grant -- DNS appears fixed on my side (were you >> one of the victims of the .org.za mess?), and the imagery looks >> amazing. Already looking forward to putting it to good use. >> >> On a semi-related note, our imagery from NGI is starting to show its >> age. I'm within walking distance of the Mowbray office, so if >> updating this imagery is on your radar, let me know if there's >> anything I can do to assist. >> >> --K >> >> On 5 September 2016 at 18:04, Grant Slater <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> Hi All, >>> >>> And of course I experience an issue as soon as I sent this... >>> openstreetmap.org.za DNS has issues, give me a few days to fix. >>> Sorry for the inconvenience. >>> >>> Kind regards, >>> >>> Grant >>> >>> >>> On 5 September 2016 at 14:38, Grant Slater <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>>> Hi OpenStreetMap ZA, >>>> >>>> I've been able to get permission for OpenStreetMap to use the City of >>>> Cape Town's very high resolution 2015 aerial imagery (8cm). I >>>> collected a copy of the imagery last month. >>>> >>>> It will be available in JOSM and iD in a few weeks time. >>>> >>>> In the mean time, here is a quick preview: >>>> http://coct.aerial.openstreetmap.org.za/ >>>> >>>> The imagery is expressly ONLY FOR OPENSTREETMAP USAGE. I would have >>>> preferred it be open to all, but wasn't able to negotiate this with >>>> CoCT. >>>> Note CoCT list the imagery on their Open Data portal: >>>> https://web1.capetown.gov.za/web1/OpenDataPortal/DatasetDetail?DatasetName=Aerial%20photography >>>> >>>> Due to continental drift and the conversion between Hartbeeshoek94 and >>>> WGS84 (as used by OSM) the imagery is *currently* around 66cm offset >>>> (2016 - 1994 = 22 years. Drift ~3cm per year). I am busy processing >>>> the imagery to correct this, hence the delay in getting it into OSM >>>> editors. >>>> >>>> Kind regards, >>>> >>>> Grant >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 > _______________________________________________ > 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
