Talk:Cape Town

Archive 1: 2005-2008

Cape Town Virtual Map link removed

Hi, I added information to the tourism section with an external link to a virtual street and suburb map of Cape Town - www.capetown4u.co.za/capetownmap.aspx. I feel this link and info is very relevant and particularly useful as it allows you to zoom and pan and scroll up to street level.

This link has been removed twice and I think their is merit in having it there, as there is no advertising on this map and it cannot benefit from search ranking because of no-follow directives, it is specific to Cape Town and is extremely useful because of it's virtual features.

It is always very handy to have a virtual map of a place that is not static, but virtual live, which can help people find their way in Cape Town.

Kind Regards Ryan —Preceding unsigned comment added by 196.25.159.216 (talk) 12:51, 22 June 2009 (UTC)

Because:

1. The map you linked to doesn't actually have most of the streets in Cape Town. Scroll up to street level, and much of the map is just blank spaces where streets should be. This means that it's not actually particularly useful for finding your way in Cape Town.
2. It's actually just Microsoft's Bing Maps loaded onto the page with Javascript. It's not actually specific to Cape Town; it just starts out with Cape Town as the default location.
3. Why should we choose that map rather than streetmaps.co.za or Google Maps or OpenStreetMap, particularly since they all have more comprehensive coverage of Cape Town?
4. In what way does a link to a scrollable map actually enhance the Wikipedia article? It's an encyclopaedia article, not a tourist guide.

- htonl (talk) 18:46, 22 June 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the contribution Ryan. However, there is already a comprehensive list of maps available if you click on the geo-coordinates in the top right. If a map did need to be linked elsewhere, the best choice of map would be one with a more compatible licence, such as OpenStreetMap, rather than a copyrighted one from Microsoft. Also, see Wikipedia:COI and WP:SPAM for policies relevant here. Greenman (talk) 13:25, 23 June 2009 (UTC)

Demographics are out of date

Atleast the education is.

http://www.capetown.gov.za/en/stats/CityReports/Documents/2007%20Community%20Survey%20Summary.pdf (page 5) Ages 20+ 2007: No schooling 2.0% Grade 0 - 3 2.9% Grade 4 - 7 14.3% Grade 8 - 11 40.1% Grade 12 20.9% Certificate/Diploma 9.6% Degree 8.8% Unspecified 1.4%

I'm not interested in changing it, maybe someone else will. ^__^ —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.228.13.117 (talk) 20:47, 7 July 2009 (UTC)

Picture of Cape flats / shanty towns

I believe that this wiki page of Cape Town is not representative of the city as a whole. It's quite clear that the majority of the city's residents live in shacks and insanitary conditions in the cape flat region and I think a picture of this needs to be included on the Cape Town article to indicate to visitors (and maybe residents!) that most people don't live in the pretty and heavenly city of cape town. It's almost as if the majority of the city residents have been pushed aside and forgotten about because they've not got the money that the minority living in the city centre and toward cape point have.

Just my thought. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.157.19.213 (talk) 07:47, 23 August 2009 (UTC)

After seeing this I added an entire section on the Cape Flats.(Wikimastername (talk) 16:26, 11 November 2009 (UTC)).