[ubuntu-za] Navit is a open source (GPL) car navigation system with routing engine

[Nic Roets]

On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 2:01 PM, William Walter Kinghorn
<williamk at dut.ac.za> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> some of you guys might find this interesting
>
> http://www.navit-project.org/
>
> Navit is a car navigation system with routing engine.

Yes, Navit should do routing well, now that Durban has been imported
into OSM. (See below)

But last time I checked, the searching of Navit did not work in South
Africa because so few objects has correctly been tagged with the is_in
tag.

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Hi all,

I'd like to introduce myself to everyone on the Talk ZA list, my name
is Paul Boreham and have been a contributor to OSM for a few years
now. I'm an expat, living in Dublin (Ireland) and thought I'd helpout
with mapping ZA.

I have been working on importing some of the eThekwini data (with Ryan
Peel). The road import is nearing completion, with a few outstanding
areas to import.

A few general queries regarding the data that has been made available to OSM:

Firstly, What data are we allowed to use from eThekwini? Just the
roads or are we also able to use POI's and rivers etc? Any details
would be appreciated.

Secondly, the shapefile data on the KZN DOT website, do we have
permission to use this data?

Thirdly, I have located "free" data on the Department of Environmental
affairs and Tourism website. They are shapefiles for Nature Reserves,
RAMSAR sites etc. See link:

http://soer.deat.gov.za/themes.aspx?m=669

Have we got the official ok to use this data or should we seek
official approval?

Regards,
Paul