Open stephenfrank opened 10 years ago
adieyal
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10 years ago Hi Stephen
What data are you looking for? The census contains information on subplaces and mainplaces (which are more or less analogous to suburbs and towns).
with regards to parsing shape files - I generally use pyshp ([1]) but I'm not sure what the equivalent php tool is.
Happy to help more if I can
j-norwood-young
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10 years ago Hey Stephen
I've been using Topojson to generate stuff I can use straight on the unterwebs. It runs on Node.js, but should work through Homebrew. (I just popped up a Vagrant instance for it, based on https://github.com/semmypurewal/node-dev-bootstrap, but I had that lying around.)
Also check out Tilemill, you can import the shape files straight in there and start making cool maps right away. http://www.mapbox.com/tilemill/
What OS you on? Adi knows all the cool Linux tools, and I'm starting to get my head around the Mac tools.
J
On 26 Sep 2013, at 6:24 PM, stephenfrank notifications@github.com wrote:
Hey Jason,
I'm working on a project requiring a city/suburb data and this data looks pretty accurate (or about as accurate as SA can be). This is after I bought the www.geopostcodes.com data and was pretty disappointed with it.
Firstly, is there any one-stop (hopefully free) source for this data?
If not, do you have any hot tips for parsing these .shx, .shp and *.dbf files into something manageable so that I can build this database?
I've opened up the .dbf files but they lack the lng/lat data. I've used this parsing library (https://github.com/fillerwriter/PHP5-Shape-File-Parser) which is able to read the .shp file but doesn't seem to combine that with the .dbf data. Argh!
-Stephen
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stephenfrank
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10 years ago @adieyal I was looking to use the "main places" and "sub places" as something analogous to towns/suburbs though I can see how they might not be exactly the same thing. I'm willing to see how it turns out.
@j-norwood-young I'm on OSX/Linux and will check out those tools.
That all being said, I've just noticed that the .dbf file opens in OpenOffice and has a column "OBJECTID,N,9,0" that correlates to the exactly to the number of polygons in the .shp file. I'm going to take a crack at munging them together.
adieyal
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10 years ago Yup - dbf/shp are an archaic format. The only index between them is line number. If you just need to extract the data, then openoffice is fine. If you need to do anything more than that, I really suggest you find an appropriate library. You're walking down a well travelled path.
Regarding main places vs sub places - know that in a metro area such as Cape Town, large suburbs are considered to be main places. For instance Khayelitsha is a main place
Adi
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On 27 September 2013 10:25, stephenfrank notifications@github.com wrote:
@adieyal https://github.com/adieyal I was looking to use the "main places" and "sub places" as something analogous to towns/suburbs though I can see how they might not be exactly the same thing. I'm willing to see how it turns out.
@j-norwood-young https://github.com/j-norwood-young I'm on OSX/Linux and will check out those tools.
That all being said, I've just noticed that the .dbf file opens in OpenOffice and has a column "OBJECTID,N,9,0" that correlates to the exactly to the number of polygons in the .shp file. I'm going to take a crack at munging them together.
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WillemBadenhorst
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1 year ago Dear Jason. Seems like there is an issue with the zipped voting districts files. Can you please reload or is it me that doesn't know how to download?
Kind regards Willem
MotsumiDarts
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1 year ago You can get updated Cadastral data directly from the state. Really simple fill in a form send it in they will provide a shared drive and download it. About 13G of data.
Would be awesome to get a way to get continously updated data. Seems like all data available still is a few months old??
Regards
D
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Kind regards Willem
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You can get updated Cadastral data directly from the state. Really simple fill in a form send it in they will provide a shared drive and download it. About 13G of data.
Would be awesome to get a way to get continously updated data. Seems like all data available still is a few months old??
Regards
D
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Hey Jason,
I'm working on a project requiring a city/suburb data and this data looks pretty accurate (or about as accurate as SA can be). This is after I bought the www.geopostcodes.com data and was pretty disappointed with it.
Firstly, is there any one-stop (hopefully free) source for this data?
If not, do you have any hot tips for parsing these .shx, .shp and *.dbf files into something manageable so that I can build this database?
I've opened up the .dbf files but they lack the lng/lat data. I've used this parsing library (https://github.com/fillerwriter/PHP5-Shape-File-Parser) which is able to read the .shp file but doesn't seem to combine that with the .dbf data. Argh!
-Stephen