Esri South Africa for providing a framework and collection of available open data sources in South Africa: Data in a Box - Esri South Africa (esri-southafrica.com)
Municipal Demarcation Board: Municipal Demarcation Board (arcgis.com)
The Humanitarian Data Exchange: South Africa - Subnational Administrative Boundaries - Humanitarian Data Exchange (humdata.org)
Department of Forestry, fisheries & the Environment: GIS Data Downloads | EGIS (environment.gov.za) and GIS Data Downloads | Environmental Geographical Information Systems (E-GIS)
Department of Agriculture, Land Reform & Rural Development: (dalrrd.gov.za)
Openstreetmap.Org (www.openstreetmap.org)
National Geo-spatial Information (Department of Rural Development and Land Reform)
(If any data custodian was omitted from the list, please do not hesitate to contact the map library)
DISCLAIMER: The data sets are open data sets and made available as obtained from various data custodians and vendors. We do not accept responsibility for inaccurate, erroneous or outdated data sets. The data sets are used at your discretion and at own risk.
The following data is available on hard drive. Please bring your own storage device and make an appointment with Mrs Lotz potgice@unisa.ac.za
Census 2011 Spatial data
Contours 5m 2013
Contours 5m 2016
Demarcations board 2012
Demarcations board 2016
Topo50 Vector
Arial photos 2010
SA geology 2002
Shapefiles 2006 full cover
You will require PlanetGIS Explorer 7.1 to open the data. Download for free. Full updated data sets can also be downloaded on the PlanetGIS website.
Africa map
Full cover Cadastral 2014
Full cover Cadastral 2015
Full cover Cadastral 2016
Contours 5m selected cover
Contours 20m
Landcover South Africa
Landsat7
Orthophotos full cover
Topographical South Africa
Toposheets full cover
World map
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