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South African Geodata

2008-10-05T01:41:15Z

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= Introduction =

For the [http://www.foss4g2008.org/ FOSS4G2008 conference] in Cape Town, South Africa (September 29 - Oct 3, 2008) the OSGeo [[Public Geospatial Data Committee]] would like to pull together a catalog of local data from the area around Cape Town so that there would be a readily available pool of services and local datasets for Exhibitors and Presenters to use during the conference. The hope is that this will bring attention to the efforts being
made by the [[Public Geospatial Data Committee]] committee. Benefits to the conference would be fast access to services (if we were to host them somewhere locally during the conference), an increased local feel, and a resource so that we could see different applications all working with the same data.

= Data Custodians =

== Government ==

=== National ===
:[http://w3sli.wcape.gov.za/ Chief Directorate: Surveys and Mapping].
Lots of free GIS data, not many if any web services?
* Comment: Where is the free data on this site? I can't find any
:[http://www.dwaf.gov.za/iwqs/gis_data/ecoregions/get-ecoregions.htm/ Ecoregions of Department of Water Affairs and Forestry].
:[http://www.dwaf.gov.za/iwqs/gis_data/river/rivs500k.html/ Rivers (1:500 000) of Department of Water Affairs and Forestry].
:[http://www.dwaf.gov.za/iwqs/wms/data/000key.htm/ Monitoring sites of Department of Water Affairs and Forestry].
Manual downloads, no web services.

=== Provincial ===
:[http://www.capegateway.gov.za/ Western Cape Provincial Government]. Any GIS?

=== Local ===
:[http://www.capetown.gov.za/en/stats/Pages/default.aspx#corp_gis City of Cape Town Corporate GIS]
:[http://www.stellenbosch.gov.za/sbmun/jsp/home.jsp Stellenbosch]

==Meraka Institute==
===Advanced Fire Information System (AFIS) WMS===
near-realtime and time series fire points for southern Africa: http://afis.meraka.org.za:8080/geoserver/wms

==OpenStreetMap==
http://www.openstreetmap.org

== Commercial ==
:Various companies and organizations, whether they are South African or not, may have data that they would be willing to provide for free.

===Courtesy of Maurizio at Madmappers===
Here is a link to 4 sample CDSM 50k maps for the Cape Town area:

http://www.madmappers.com/upload/EKM/3318CD_2000_ED9_GEO.zip 16.4 MB

http://www.madmappers.com/upload/EKM/3318DC_2000_ED9_GEO.zip 51.0 MB

http://www.madmappers.com/upload/EKM/3418AB&AD_2000_ED7_GEO.zip 37.7 MB

http://www.madmappers.com/upload/EKM/3418BA_2000_ED7_GEO.zip 13.8 MB

===Worldwind or Madmappers services===

(Maurizio please add the missing links below)

====AFRICAN DATA AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD FROM MadMappers WEB SERVER:====

1)Russian topographic maps scale 1:500 000 - full African coverage 
[http://www.madmappers.com/mapset.php?MS=182 Northern Africa] (334 maps) 
[http://www.madmappers.com/mapset.php?MS=183 Southern Africa] (181 maps)
 

2)South African topographic maps (courtesy of CDSM - Chief Directorate of Surveys & Mapping) 
[http://www.madmappers.com/mapset.php?MS=10 South Africa - scale 1:250 000] (70 maps) 
South Africa - scale 1:50 000 
[http://www.madmappers.com/mapset.php?MS=12 Eastern Cape](299 maps) 
[http://www.madmappers.com/mapset.php?MS=13 Free State](226 maps) 
[http://www.madmappers.com/mapset.php?MS=14 Gauteng](40 maps) 
[http://www.madmappers.com/mapset.php?MS=15 Kwazulu Natal](167 maps) 
[http://www.madmappers.com/mapset.php?MS=16 Limpopo](217 maps) 
[http://www.madmappers.com/mapset.php?MS=17 Mpumalanga](152 maps) 
[http://www.madmappers.com/mapset.php?MS=18 North West](209 maps) 
[http://www.madmappers.com/mapset.php?MS=19 Northern Cape](618 maps) 
[http://www.madmappers.com/mapset.php?MS=20 Western Cape](247 maps) 

 
====AFRICAN DATA ACCESSIBLE FOR BROWSING FROM MadMappers Tileservice:====

1) MadMap viewer
The viewer lists a number of layers which are accessible also by WorlWind and other clients (e.g.

OpenLayers).
Aerial photography is available for Johannesburg.

2) Somalia Water and Land Information Management viewer

Somap was originally aimed as quick reference tool for planning of relief efforts in times of floods. On the

aftermaths of the Somali conflict it became widely used by NGO's and international organizations for planning

relief efforts of displaced population.

The but incidentally became . floodings t set up by MadMappers to monitor for SWALIM

====WORLDWIND AFRICA LAYERS FROM MadMappers and WorldWindCentral Tileservice:====

1) South African Space Organization WorlWind South Africa portal
The South Africa add-on is a set of topographical maps covering Southern Africa, in addition a few areas also

have othophotos.

2) Add-on:ZoomIt!
This add-on provided by World Wind Central gives access to up to date high resolution imagery for various

parts of the world.
In particular:
South Africa - 10 meter natural-color SPOT 5 mosaic (2005) Copyright Madmappers and SpotImage
Robben Island - 0.5 meter natural-color mosaic Copyright Madmappers
Johanesburg - 2.5 meter natural-color mosaic Copyright Madmappers

2) Add-on:Somalia-SWALIM
The Somalia add-on is a set of topographical maps covering Somalia in 100k and 200k resolution, vector data of

Mogadishu streets and general data, and displays areas affected by flooding.

3) Add-on:Mogadishu Refugee Migration Add-On
This add-on is based on data gathered from the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR). An equivalent add-on for Google

earth is also available.

= DataSets =

== Requested Datasets ==
If there is a particular South African dataset that you would like to see be available at FOSS4G2008, add your request to this section.
Please include the following information:
* Dataset information:
** dataset name
** link to dataset information (e.g. metadata)
** link to dataset location (if publicly available)
* Your information:
** your name (and optionally organization), and a way to contact you
** your role in the FOSS4G2008 conference (e.g. attendee, workshop/lab instructor, sponsor, etc.)
** why you are requesting the dataset

Request by jlivni (Josh Livni, a workshop presenter) for the following datasets for use in FOSS4G workshops. Datasets should cover, as applicable, the Western Cape at least, but preferably all of SA. In order of my personal preference/importance
* Province Boundaries
* Municipalities
* Capetown suburbs, subcouncils, and wards
* 2006 Census shapes and attributes (preferably all, but as above, Wards at the least)
* Streets / Other transportation (bus lines?)
* Any aerial imagery
* Informal Settlements
* Any spatial data related to urban renewal programme

== Dataset Sources ==
While the authoritative source for a dataset is the dataset's custodian, for FOSS4G2008 the goal is to have copies of datasets, or partial datasets, on local servers at the conference. To accomplish that, local people will have to do the work of obtaining those copies and loading them onto the local servers.

If you can help with this by providing the conference organizers with a copy of all or part of one or more of the Requested Datasets, add your information to the section below.

[[Category:FOSS4G]]
[[Category:FOSS4G2008]]
[[Category:Public Geospatial Data Committee]]

South African Geodata

2008-10-05T01:36:10Z

Wiki-Maurizio:

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= Introduction =

For the [http://www.foss4g2008.org/ FOSS4G2008 conference] in Cape Town, South Africa (September 29 - Oct 3, 2008) the OSGeo [[Public Geospatial Data Committee]] would like to pull together a catalog of local data from the area around Cape Town so that there would be a readily available pool of services and local datasets for Exhibitors and Presenters to use during the conference. The hope is that this will bring attention to the efforts being
made by the [[Public Geospatial Data Committee]] committee. Benefits to the conference would be fast access to services (if we were to host them somewhere locally during the conference), an increased local feel, and a resource so that we could see different applications all working with the same data.

= Data Custodians =

== Government ==

=== National ===
:[http://w3sli.wcape.gov.za/ Chief Directorate: Surveys and Mapping].
Lots of free GIS data, not many if any web services?
* Comment: Where is the free data on this site? I can't find any
:[http://www.dwaf.gov.za/iwqs/gis_data/ecoregions/get-ecoregions.htm/ Ecoregions of Department of Water Affairs and Forestry].
:[http://www.dwaf.gov.za/iwqs/gis_data/river/rivs500k.html/ Rivers (1:500 000) of Department of Water Affairs and Forestry].
:[http://www.dwaf.gov.za/iwqs/wms/data/000key.htm/ Monitoring sites of Department of Water Affairs and Forestry].
Manual downloads, no web services.

=== Provincial ===
:[http://www.capegateway.gov.za/ Western Cape Provincial Government]. Any GIS?

=== Local ===
:[http://www.capetown.gov.za/en/stats/Pages/default.aspx#corp_gis City of Cape Town Corporate GIS]
:[http://www.stellenbosch.gov.za/sbmun/jsp/home.jsp Stellenbosch]

==Meraka Institute==
===Advanced Fire Information System (AFIS) WMS===
near-realtime and time series fire points for southern Africa: http://afis.meraka.org.za:8080/geoserver/wms

==OpenStreetMap==
http://www.openstreetmap.org

== Commercial ==
:Various companies and organizations, whether they are South African or not, may have data that they would be willing to provide for free.

===Courtesy of Maurizio at Madmappers===
Here is a link to 4 sample CDSM 50k maps for the Cape Town area:

http://www.madmappers.com/upload/EKM/3318CD_2000_ED9_GEO.zip 16.4 MB

http://www.madmappers.com/upload/EKM/3318DC_2000_ED9_GEO.zip 51.0 MB

http://www.madmappers.com/upload/EKM/3418AB&AD_2000_ED7_GEO.zip 37.7 MB

http://www.madmappers.com/upload/EKM/3418BA_2000_ED7_GEO.zip 13.8 MB

===Worldwind or Madmapper services===

(Maurizio please add the missing links below)

A) AFRICAN DATA AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD FROM MadMappers WEB SERVER:

1)Russian topographic maps scale 1:500 000 - full African coverage 
[http://www.madmappers.com/mapset.php?MS=182 Northern Africa] (334 maps) 
[http://www.madmappers.com/mapset.php?MS=183 Southern Africa] (181 maps)
 

2)South African topographic maps (courtesy of CDSM - Chief Directorate of Surveys & Mapping) 
[http://www.madmappers.com/mapset.php?MS=10 South Africa - scale 1:250 000] (70 maps) 
South Africa - scale 1:50 000 
[http://www.madmappers.com/mapset.php?MS=12 Eastern Cape](299 maps) 
[http://www.madmappers.com/mapset.php?MS=13 Free State](226 maps) 
[http://www.madmappers.com/mapset.php?MS=14 Gauteng](40 maps) 
[http://www.madmappers.com/mapset.php?MS=15 Kwazulu Natal](167 maps) 
[http://www.madmappers.com/mapset.php?MS=16 Limpopo](217 maps) 
[http://www.madmappers.com/mapset.php?MS=17 Mpumalanga](152 maps) 
[http://www.madmappers.com/mapset.php?MS=18 North West](209 maps) 
[http://www.madmappers.com/mapset.php?MS=19 Northern Cape](618 maps) 
[http://www.madmappers.com/mapset.php?MS=20 Western Cape](247 maps) 

 
B) AFRICAN DATA ACCESSIBLE FOR BROWSING FROM MadMappers Tileservice:

1) MadMap viewer
The viewer lists a number of layers which are accessible also by WorlWind and other clients (e.g.

OpenLayers).
Aerial photography is available for Johannesburg.

2) Somalia Water and Land Information Management viewer

Somap was originally aimed as quick reference tool for planning of relief efforts in times of floods. On the

aftermaths of the Somali conflict it became widely used by NGO's and international organizations for planning

relief efforts of displaced population.

The but incidentally became . floodings t set up by MadMappers to monitor for SWALIM

C) WORLDWIND AFRICA LAYERS FROM MadMappers and WorldWindCentral Tileservice:

1) South African Space Organization WorlWind South Africa portal
The South Africa add-on is a set of topographical maps covering Southern Africa, in addition a few areas also

have othophotos.

2) Add-on:ZoomIt!
This add-on provided by World Wind Central gives access to up to date high resolution imagery for various

parts of the world.
In particular:
South Africa - 10 meter natural-color SPOT 5 mosaic (2005) Copyright Madmappers and SpotImage
Robben Island - 0.5 meter natural-color mosaic Copyright Madmappers
Johanesburg - 2.5 meter natural-color mosaic Copyright Madmappers

2) Add-on:Somalia-SWALIM
The Somalia add-on is a set of topographical maps covering Somalia in 100k and 200k resolution, vector data of

Mogadishu streets and general data, and displays areas affected by flooding.

3) Add-on:Mogadishu Refugee Migration Add-On
This add-on is based on data gathered from the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR). An equivalent add-on for Google

earth is also available.

= DataSets =

== Requested Datasets ==
If there is a particular South African dataset that you would like to see be available at FOSS4G2008, add your request to this section.
Please include the following information:
* Dataset information:
** dataset name
** link to dataset information (e.g. metadata)
** link to dataset location (if publicly available)
* Your information:
** your name (and optionally organization), and a way to contact you
** your role in the FOSS4G2008 conference (e.g. attendee, workshop/lab instructor, sponsor, etc.)
** why you are requesting the dataset

Request by jlivni (Josh Livni, a workshop presenter) for the following datasets for use in FOSS4G workshops. Datasets should cover, as applicable, the Western Cape at least, but preferably all of SA. In order of my personal preference/importance
* Province Boundaries
* Municipalities
* Capetown suburbs, subcouncils, and wards
* 2006 Census shapes and attributes (preferably all, but as above, Wards at the least)
* Streets / Other transportation (bus lines?)
* Any aerial imagery
* Informal Settlements
* Any spatial data related to urban renewal programme

== Dataset Sources ==
While the authoritative source for a dataset is the dataset's custodian, for FOSS4G2008 the goal is to have copies of datasets, or partial datasets, on local servers at the conference. To accomplish that, local people will have to do the work of obtaining those copies and loading them onto the local servers.

If you can help with this by providing the conference organizers with a copy of all or part of one or more of the Requested Datasets, add your information to the section below.

[[Category:FOSS4G]]
[[Category:FOSS4G2008]]
[[Category:Public Geospatial Data Committee]]

FOSS4G2008 Demos

2008-09-27T21:32:13Z

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One of the great attractions to an international conference like this is a chance to show off your work. At FOSS4G 2007 there was a room dedicated to the demo theatre, with facilities and schedule of its own. In 2008 we will have a demo theatre set up right in the Exhibition Hall. Viewers can take in their food and drinks and be informed and entertained by live demonstrations.

== Organisers & Volunteers ==

* Tim Sutton
* ?

Where possible we will try and have community leaders introduce the members of their community that are offering demos.

[[FOSS4G2008_LocMembers]]

= Demo Theatre =

== Demo Venue ==

A demo theatre will be constructed at one end of the Exhibition Hall.

== Demo Facilities ==

* We will have two overhead projectors (so one team can set up as another is presenting).
* a table will be provided for handouts or marketing material

== Who can demo? ==

Any person registered for the conference can do a demo (no discount for doing a demo). The best deals if you want to attend the conference purely to give a demo are to register for just one day or with a students / academic discount if you qualify. Of course we encourage you to attend the whole conference if you can!

== Demo Schedule ==

Some things we will take into consideration when scheduling demos:
* Primary spots are during Lunches and Tea breaks (these time slots have the most walk-by traffic to feed on)
* Additional timeslots will be opened up if needed
* We will group similar content together (both to allow direct comparison and to let those interested in a topic to mark off a block of time)
* We will need to be sure not to conflict with the presentation program (setting up cool examples of GRASS opposite the GRASS track would not be a good thing)
* Demos are the last thing to be Scheduled in terms of conference priorities (we need to be sure that Labs and Presentations are accounted for first)
* If you would like to do a demonstration in the theatre, please contact the theatre coordinator (Tim Sutton - tim@linfiniti.com) or add your name and contact details below.

== Registering for your demo ==

If you would like to do a demonstration please email tim@linfiniti.com providing your name, email address, topic / title for your presentation and your preferred time slot. Tim will then add you to the timetable below, and communicate with you if there are scheduling conflicts.

Example email to book a slot:

----

Dear Tim

My name is Joe Bloggs (joe.bloggs at bloggspot.com) and I would like to present a demo on Tuesday September 20, Lunch Break slot 3, entitled:

'Making high resolution maps of cheese deposits on the moon using mapserver, QGIS and visual basic."

Please note I'll be leaving the conference on the wednesday night so please don't adjust my time slot to thursday if you need to reschedule it.

Regards

Joe Bloggs

----

== Provisional Timetable ==

Please note that we reserve the right to alter the order of presentations as organisational constraints require - we will do this in collaboration with you. Exhibitors and sponsors will have priority on times. Please do not edit the schedule below yourself, but rather communicate your change requests to Tim Sutton (tim@linfiniti.com).

'''Tuesday September 30 (15 slots)'''
----

''Tea Break 10:00-10:30''

* Slot 1 NASA WorldWind: Evolution from .net application to Java SDK - Maurizio de Felice <maurizio AT madmappers.com>
* Slot 2 QGIS
* Slot 3 Mapbender project in a live environment. - Arnulf Christl

''Lunch Break 12 - 13.30 ''

* Slot 1 - Markus Neteler - Grass demo
* Slot 2 - Daniel Kastl (kastl at orkney.co.jp) 'WebRoutingService - a RESTful interface for pgRouting'
* Slot 3 - Suha Ulgen, United Nations - "UNHCR's Web-GIS: FOSS4G from data collection to end users." <ulgen AT un.org>
* Slot 4 - Raj Singh - WFS Simple (rsingh AT opengeospatial.org)
* Slot 5 - GIMS - ArcServer and its standards compliance
* Slot 6 - AUTODESK
* Slot 7 - Sahana: Using GIS to support Humanitarian Relief Operations. - Fran Boon <flavour AT partyvibe.com>
* Slot 8 - GeoExt: Bringing geo-enabled components to the Ext JavaScript framework- Tim Schaub <tschaub AT opengeo.org>
* Slot 9 - OpenGeoPortail v2, a french open-source atlas using Ext JS, OpenLayers and MapFish - Nicolas Bozon <nicolas dot bozon at gmail dot com>

''Tea Break 15 - 15.30''

* Slot 1 - Advanced Fire Information System (AFIS) - Graeme Mcferren
* Slot 2 - Using the Drupal CMS for web mapping with a Mapping kit, OpenLayers, Mapserver/Mapscript, and PostGIS. - John Pulles <john.pulles AT geodan.nl>
* Slot 3 - Development of an Agricultural Information Management System (AIMS) for the SADC region - Sjaak Dieleman <sjaakdieleman AT gmail.com>

'''Wednesday October 1 (15 Slots)'''
----

''Tea Break 10:00-10:30''

* Slot 1 - M.A.P. - Map Access Protocol ... a sleek viewer for my maps - Maurizio de Felice <maurizio AT madmappers.com>
* Slot 2 - eWQMS Water Quality Management system - Philip de Souza of Emanti Management <philipds AT emanti.co.za>
* Slot 3

''Lunch Break 12 - 1.30''

* Slot 1
* Slot 2
* Slot 3 - NSIF
* Slot 4 - Remote sensing and GIS in Environmental sensitivity mapping of a Nigerian coastline oil spill - Dr. Oluseyi Fabiyi <seyifabiyi AT gmail.com>
* Slot 5 - Geoinformatica, a geospatial application platform built on Gtk+, Perl, and GDAL - Ari Jolma <ari.jolma AT tkk.fi>
* Slot 6 -
* Slot 7
* Slot 8
* Slot 9

''Tea Break 15 - 15.30''

* Slot 1 - Custom Application Creation using the MapWindow ActiveX Control, Harold Dunsford <hadunsford AT gmail.com> and the mapwindow team
* Slot 2 - Live demo of the Community Image Data portal (European Commission - JRC) - Paul Hasenohr <paul.hasenohr AT jrc.it>
* Slot 3 - SITA - FOSS4G the way forward - Bonakele Mbhele <Bonakele.Mbhele At sita.co.za>

'''Thursday October 2 (12 Slots)''' - Demos on Thursday will be subject to Tues & Weds filling up first.
----

''Tea Break''

* Slot 1
* Slot 2
* Slot 3

''Lunch Break''

* Slot 1
* Slot 2
* Slot 3
* Slot 4
* Slot 5
* Slot 6
* Slot 7
* Slot 8
* Slot 9

Closed for closing plenary

= Giving a Demo =

The first step is to have something to demo:
* You have 10 minutes
* You must demo live software (really - it is an open source software conference). No presentation slides.
* Show us, rather that talk. It is better to show software and leave time for questions than to try and handle this as a presentation.
* Source code is hard to read and does not qualify for "show us"
* You will have 5 mins to set up prior, and 5 mins to tear down. Please be prompt as there is someone waiting to start after you.
* Sponsors (or anyone starting a session): you will have access to the room for a bit before the session starts - if you want to take the time drag in a poster (or put hand outs on the chairs) more power to you.

The second step is to email us:
* Contact Tim Sutton - tim@linfiniti.com
* Let us know of any schedule constraints (perhaps you are presenting or giving a lab)
* We will get back to you with a timeslot (we will be organizing the demos according to subject matter or community).

== Suggestions ==

Is this your first time doing a demo?
* If you are used to doing presentations; try this approach: Show the software and hand out your presentation in paper form.
* Be excited, what you are showing is *cool* and meeting people like you is why we come to these conferences anyways
* Hang around to the end of the session, many people that would like to ask you questions will be hesitant to walk out of the room to chase you down.

You may also wish to bring:
* Something to hand out (Your business card, demo-CDs, academic papers, t-shirts)

If you would like to have someone introduce you please warn them before hand:
- Your professor? Your company's marketing department? Your open source project lead?

Let people know where to find you:
* For sponsors - be sure to include a slide showing the location of your booth
* For academics - let them know if you have a poster up

== Warning ==

Bring your own laptop, do not expect to install software during your demo (you only have 10 minutes).
* This advice can be ignored if you want to demo the fact you have a slick installer now
* You may wish to make a back up "flash" demo (use wink) in case the worst happens
* Turn off virus checkers, ebay bidding tools, email applications and anything else that is going to leap up and ask for attention in an embarrassing manner

With respect to the Internet:
* Ensure you can connect to the wireless network before starting your presentation
* We will try and have a LAN drop for you
* Expect the Internet to be slow (there are a lot of fun toys at a conference like this all of which want their piece of the packet pie)
* Run from a local service installed on your laptop if you can

== Questions ==

==== Is there a PC with Internet? ====

Please bring your own laptop (that way you can be sure it is set up correctly for your demo), there will be a LAN drop (or you can make use of the conference wireless).

==== How long should a demo be? ====

The demo slot is 10 mins, you may want to use the entire time to show your application. Or you may want to show the application for for 5 mins and answer a few questions.

If your community has several "new exciting features" then please present each in its own demo.

==== Do demo's have to be visual? ====

It depends on what you are showing, if you want to show that "Using JTS Prepaired Geometry is 120% faster" a simple JUnit test and a code example may be all that is needed.

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