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I will be working on wind farm projects near Richards Bay and Hluhluwe next week from 27 February to 2 March. Booking flights, accommodation and vehicles now.

I'll try to check email regularly.

The Provincial Spatial Development Plan - Eastern Cape provides SDFs (yes, you guessed it, Spatial Development Frameworks) for the Eastern Cape and they also host a very usefull spatial data set on the site (in shapefile format):

http://drupal6dev15.econsultant.co.za/content/home-page

The site hasn't always been accessible, but it definitely is at the moment.

At the moment things are going a bit crazy in the map(this); office. I'm working on a couple of projects - writing a report for the Vleesbaai wind farm, preparing for a field trip to Kwazulu Natal for two wind farms there and keeping an eye on the Saldanha desalination plant project.

That is not all, of course, since there are always changes to be made to previous reports as various parties (affected or not) make comments and expect changes.

There is an interesting aspect of visual impact assessments of wind farm projects that I've encountered which I would like to discuss (and research a bit more carefully) in the near future. The issue relates to photomontages and their role in the VIA process.

I've created a Google Fusion table and map of visual impact assessments conducted and completed by map(this);. Short discussion here.

I think it makes more sense to use a real blog engine so I can provide pictures and maps. I will therefore link to blogposts at WordPress from these entries rather than use the very limited capabilities of the Imaginet Site Builder.

And so today, a photomontage entry at map(this); WordPress blog for a proposed wind farm near Grahamstown.