[okfn-za] South Africa Street Database

[Rufus Pollock]

On 10 February 2012 08:03, Adi Eyal <adi at burgercom.co.za> wrote:
> Hi All
>
> Does anyone know if an open database of streets in South Africa exists
> somewhere? Even better would be a database that includes houses or at

I don't know how good the coverage but Open Street Map have some data, see e.g.:

<http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=-33.995&lon=18.558&zoom=11&layers=M>

DataHub dataset: <http://thedatahub.org/dataset/osm>

> least legal numbers in each street. And an even better database would
> give me units as well (e.g. flat 2a)

The government may have that (it certainly exists in the UK) though it
usually isn't open or even public.

Rufus

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