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 OpenStreetMap Talk South Africa mailing list and introduce yourself.
- Tagging roads? Read the South African Tagging Guidelines.
- Looking for something to fix? Check out this Keepright map, then zoom into your area of interest.
- See the Beginners' Guide if your new to OpenStreetMap.
Goals
- Getting secondary regional (Rxxx) routes mapped
- Improving accuracy of existing roads by adding dual carrageways and other important characteristics.
- Improving and completing key cities/towns
- Creating specialist maps:
- 4x4 trails eg. Dewild Eco Trail
- Tourist maps
- Diving maps
- Game parks
- City navigator maps
- Mountain Bike routes, like Dark & Dirty Rock & Roll, Dam2Dam, Northern Farms and Logwood.
- Adding speed limits, speed traps, and fixed traffic cameras.
- Adding danger spots:
- Highjack hotspots
- High accident zones
- Steep climbs/descents
- Sharp turns
- Adding more information about residential areas
- Adding and naming housing complexes, flats, and office parks
- Adding house numbers
- Uploading GPS traces
- Mapping major stadiums
- Mapping power lines
Completed Goals
- Getting all the national highways mapped.
- Getting all primary regional routes mapped.
Progress tracking
Mapping Parties
Join an event listed below. If there aren't any, find out how to run your own.
Upcoming
(no events listed at this time)
Past Mapping Parties
- Pretoria March 2011 Meetup - 26 March 2011
- Worldcup 2010 Mapping Party Johannesburg - 20th March 2010.
- Cape Town Mapping Party - September 2009
- Gauteng Mapping Party - September 2009
- Cape Town Mapping Party Sunday 28 September 2008
- 29 September 2008 - 3 October 2008 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.
- 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 - Tectonic - Mapping the world, one street at a time
- February 27, 2007 - CapeInfo - Take ownership of your streets!
- August 2, 2007 - Spatial Data Infrastructure - Africa Newsletter
- August 1, 2009 - Brainstorm Magazine - While governments debate, people create (print/online)
- September 1, 2009 - Getaway Magazine - Help map the world (print/online)
- September 1, 2009 - Brainstorm Magazine - Mapping the world class African city (OSM related)
- February 25, 2010 - The lie of the land - The ambitious volunteer-based OpenStreetMap has now mapped more than 120,000 km of South African roads.
- September 21, 2010 - Lets Talk Geek - LTG Episode 23: Open Street Maps [sic] - Chat with Nic Roets (South Africa)
See also: OpenStreetMap South Africa Press Pack - PDF, 14 July 2009
Interacting with others
- Mailing list: [1].
- IRC discussion: irc.Atrum.org #osm-za.
- OpenStreetMap Forum (worldwide)
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
- Glen Wilson
- Brendan Barrett
- David Way
- Ryan Peel
- Rickus Viljoen
- Pieter Smit
- Marlon Van Der Linde
- Eon van Zyl
- Andrew Gillespie
Import Coordination
- City of Cape Town - Mostly Complete, time to map.
- eThekwini (Durban)
Provinces
South Africa has 9 provinces:
- Gauteng
- Includes city of Johannesburg 1.65 M
- Includes city of Pretoria 1.23 M
- Includes city of Soweto 1.22 M
- North West
- Mpumalanga
- Limpopo
- Western Cape
- Includes city of Cape Town 2.69 M
- Eastern Cape
- Includes city of Port Elizabeth 834 K
- Northern Cape
- Free State
- KwaZulu-Natal
- Includes city of Durban 2.35 M
Useful Resources
Don't copy from other maps! Please respect the copyright of these sites.
Related Resources
South African 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
- City of Tshwane GIS portal They also host an ArcIMS server.
Other Mapping Resources
- Madmappers
- gData, beta version Free GIS data for any country in the world (including roads).
Translating street signs
South African street signs give names in English and/or Afrikaans, and they're often abbreviated, so some translation may be necessary:
| English | Afrikaans | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Abbreviations | Name | Abbreviations | Name |
| AVE | avenue | laan | |
| CRES | crescent | ||
| DR | drive | rylaan | |
| RD | road | weg | |
| ST, STR | street | ||
