Firefishy's Diary

Help purchase 1:50k Topographic series of Swaziland?

Posted by Firefishy on 1 December 2023 in English.

A few years back, I successfully led a crowdfunding effort to raise £975 to purchase scans of the 1970s / 1980s 1:50k topographic map series of South West Africa / Namibia from a commercial map archive. It was a great success and I put them online: https://namibia-topo.openstreetmap.org.za/

Recently I have been speaking to the archive again about purchasing similar map series for other African countries. The map series vary per country from the 1960s to 1990s. Many were created with support from the United Kingdom’s former Directorate of Overseas Surveys (DOS).

The 1991 1:50k Topographic series of Swaziland (now Eswatini) published by the Swaziland’s Surveyor General is available. It is made up of 31 sheets in total. The scans are supplied clipped and unclipped. Total price is US$ 400 for the scans.

It would be fantastic to get these maps online. Would you be willing to support this purchase?

Link: Worldcat reference for the 1991 Swaziland map series.

Example of the join between 4 cropped sheets: Example of 4 cropped sheets joining

Location: Extension 3, Mbabane, Inkhundla Mbabane, Hhohho Region, H100, Eswatini

Update OpenStreetMap's OS Street View instance

Posted by Firefishy on 10 September 2012 in English.

I recently updated http://os.openstreetmap.org/

Announced here: http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-gb/2012-September/013789.html

Location: Greenhill, Wealdstone, London Borough of Harrow, London, Greater London, England, HA1 2JX, United Kingdom

First Post :-)

Posted by Firefishy on 4 April 2012 in English.

New server database server Ramoth is now online.

OSM South Africa growing rapidly

Posted by Firefishy on 6 August 2009 in English.

Paarl & Wellington are being improved rapidly, looks very impressive.

Great work guys.

/ Grant

Location: Drakenstein Ward 23, Paarl, Drakenstein Local Municipality, Cape Winelands District Municipality, Western Cape, South Africa

Test

Posted by Firefishy on 22 June 2009 in English.

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Test

Posted by Firefishy on 21 April 2009 in English.

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