WikiProject South Africa
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Welcome!
This is the starting point for all things related to OpenStreetMap in South Africa!
Getting involved
- Subscribe to the OSM-Talk-ZA mailing list
- Introduce yourself on the OSM-Talk-ZA list :)
- Please try to keep to the South African Tagging Standards when tagging roads
- Beginners' Guide
- Join the IRC channel on irc.furion.org #osm-za
Goals
Getting all primary national routes mapped
- R101 etc
Improve accuracy of existing
- Make highways and main roads double
Create Specialist Maps
- 4x4
- Tourist
- Diving
- Game Parks
- City Navigator
Improving and completing key cities/towns
- * Cities marked by an asterisk have high resolution imagery available.
Speed Traps
- Adding speed limits to all roads
- Fixed Cameras
Danger Spots
- Highjacking
- Accidents
- Steep Hills
- Sharp turns
Complex's
- Townhouse
- Flats
- Office parks
Completed Goals
- Getting all the national highways mapped.
Mapping Parties
- Cape Town Mapping Party Sunday 28 September
- 29 September - 3 October FOSS4G 2008 at the Cape Town International Convention Centre. Register now and meet Andrew, Mikel, Schuyler and more characters from the OSM and other Free and Open Source GIS communities. If you're interested in Open data, Open standards, Open Source, or GIS in general, this is the conference to attend.
- After FOSS4G how about running mapping parties in other cities in South Africa? Organise here.
- Want to run a Mapping Party? Great! Mapping Weekend Howto
Past Mapping Parties
- Cape Town meet - 5th April 2008 - Meet
- Johannesburg Pub Meet - 7th April 2008 - Meet some of the guys mapping Gauteng
- Noordhoek, Cape Town - 10th November 2007 - 1st South African Mapping Party
Press
- February 19, 2007 - Mapping the world, one street at a time [1]
- February 27, 2007 - Take ownership of your streets! [2]
- August 2, 2007 - Spatial Data Infrastructure - Africa Newsletter
Mailing List
There is a South Africa specific Mailinglist. See: http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk-za
National Routes Progress (N)
Regional Routes Progress (R)
Provinces
South Africa has 9 provinces as follows in no particular order
- Gauteng
- North West
- Mpumalanga
- Limpopo
- Western Cape
- Eastern Cape
- Northern Cape
- Free State
- KwaZulu-Natal
Major cities and their population: Cape Town 2.69 M, Durban 2.35 M, Johannesburg 1.65 M, Port Elizabeth 834 K, Pretoria 1.23 M, Soweto 1.22 M.
People interested in South Africa
- Grant Slater
- Ray Booysen
- Roland Elferink
- Brett Hairbottle
- Adrian Frith
- Nic Roets
- Angus Anderson
- Heinz Meulke
- Adrian Moisey
- Russell Cloran
- Deon Erasmus
- Carl Sutton
- Anton Damhuis
- Peter le Roux
- Hendrik Stheeman
Useful Resources
As always, please respect the copyright of these sites!
Related Resources
Government Resources
- Chief Directorate : Surveys and Mapping of South Africa (see data access here)
- E-sales site for CDSM - online shop for all mapping products
- Municipal Demarcation Board - Provincal, Municipal and Ward Boundries.
- South African Geographical Names System - Official Names
- KZN Department of Transport ArcIMS server showing road class and surface, and high resolution aerial imagery
- Free geographic (GIS) data for any country in the world including roads.
