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AfriSpatial

Open Source Geospatial Solutions

AfriSpatial can help you…

  • Design and implement Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
  • Develop custom geospatial applications
  • Train and develop your staff with FOSS (Free and Open Source) GIS tools
  • Integrate diverse GIS software and data in your enterprise
  • Migrate from proprietary (privative) software to FOSS software
  • With system and staff support
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A belated Open Data Hackathon announcement: AfriSpatial has released a project for the public to contribute to styling South African National map data as supplied by NGI. Read more about it, clone it and contribute at https://github.com/AfriSpatial/topostyle. It is all about serving up 1:50000 topographical map data styled just like the familiar paper map sheets, as one seamless layer for the whole country. And of course enabling anyone else to do the same. If you like it and use it we hope you will contribute to improving the map for everyone’s benefit.

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If you just want to see the map, you can register on http://1map.co.za and switch on the “NGI/NGI Topographical” layer. Zoom in to 1:64000 or closer anywhere in the country and check it out. I know one thing: Geography teachers are going to love it. While you’re at it, switch to the “NGI Aerial Photography” base layer and adjust the topo layer’s opacity with the slider.

Happy styling!

An ICA-OSGeo FOSS GIS lab was recently launched at the University of Pretoria’s Centre for Geoinformation Science (CGIS). AfriSpatial will be extending the reach of the  CGIS online Certificate Course in Introductory Geographic Information Systems by presenting the course workshops in Cape Town,  using FOSS GIS of course (mainly QGIS and PostGIS). The course runs from Feb – June 2013. For more details see the course brochure.

Gavin will also be presenting the CGIS Spatial databases with PostGIS course in March next year. For more details see here.

These are non-degree courses yet are university-based and include formal assessment.