Has links to vegetation/forest maps of Africa, South Africa, and other
countries. Links to a Southern
Africa forest & protected
area map. Compiled by Claire Englander of the Univ. of California-Berkeley,
University & Jepson Herbaria/SMASCH Project, and Philip Hoehn from the
Stanford University Branner Earth Sciences Library and Map Collections. http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/EART/vegmaps.html
Sells detailed digital maps and gazetteers of South Africa and Africa.
Data is supplied in MapInfo Tables and ArcView Shapefiles. Its Africa Gazetteer
(at $490) comes in MapInfo or ArcView GIS formats or as an Access database. http://www.computamaps.com/
Download the boundaries and layers of individual countries, in Arc/INFO
export format, from ESRI's Digital Chart of the World data set. Includes
South Africa. The web site gives a preview of the map. Maps are also created
in postscript or gif format. http://www.maproom.psu.edu/dcw/
Put in the name of a place and the database provides country, longitude,
latitude. From the Getty Information Institute, Los Angeles, California. http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/tgn/index.html
Official site. Johannesburg city government information, suburb / region descriptions and maps, culural events, news, tourism & business sites, tourist tips. How the city is run. City statistics. History. Soweto. Alexandra Township. 2010 World Cup (soccer). Maintained by the City of Johannesburg. http://www.joburg.org.za/
"LubomboMapping provides access to spatial data-sets for
the Lubombo region which can be viewed and analysed using basic GIS functions." LSDI "is
a regional co-operation between the governments of South Africa,
Swaziland and Mozambique and is aimed at accelerating development,
particularly with regard to agriculture and tourism within an area covering
southern Mozambique, eastern Swaziland and north-eastern KwaZulu-Natal." Has
GIS data-sets for community, environment, malaria, tourism,
and on-line issues of Wetlands Wire, Official Newsletter of the
Greater St Lucia Wetland Park Authority. Based in Pietermaritzburg. [KF]
http://www.lubombomapping.org.za/
South African government body providing information on the demarcation
of municipal boundaries and the delimitation of wards. Has metropolitan and
district council maps (Cape Town, Durban, East Rand, Pretoria, Johannesburg,
etc.), policy documents. http://www.demarcation.org.za/
Its Map Machine has basic information from the National Geographic
Atlas of the World (1995) and maps for each country with basic printable
maps.http://www.nationalgeographic.com/resources/ngo/maps/
National
Library of South Africa - Mapping Africa Before 1920
Site has closed. "The International Cartographic Association (ICA) meets in Africa
for the first time in August 2003. Durban will play host to the week long
21st International Conference. In addition, the ICA Commission on the History
of Cartography has organised a two day pre-conference symposium in Cape Town
from 4-5 August, at the National Library...It will be opened by Dr. Frene
Ginwala, Speaker of the National Assembly, well known for her avid interest
in maps and mapmaking." Maps include the first map of Africa
to be assembled from several sources and engraved in uniform size and
a a map of the Cape peninsula indicating a proposed canal
across the Cape Flats from Table Bay to False Bay. 1682.
http://www.nlsa.ac.za/exhibition_mapping.html
"official journal of the Names Society of Southern Africa (NSA)....an accredited, refereed journal published twice annually...". Table of contents of issues from Vol. 1, 1987. "Articles on any names-related subject are welcome, and submissions are not limited to members of the NSA." Based at the Onomastic Studies Unit, University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg. http://www.osu.unp.ac.za/NA_Edit.htm
Sells South African maps
($6 to over $1,000) - geologic, mineral, topographic, wine map, many South
African city maps, road maps, provincial maps, road atlases from Map Studio
(South African map publisher). Based in Burlington, North Carolina. http://www.omnimap.com/catalog/int/africa.htm
Creates a map if you know the longitude and latitude of the geographic
entity. You can put in national boundaries, rivers and channels. You
can also save the map in Postscript (EPSF) or Adobe Illustrator format. The
files download in .zip format. In English and German. [KF]
Antiquarian Western maps (from
South Africa's Parliament) and their view of Africa are contrasted with African
history from an African perspective. Uses photographs of archaeological discoveries
to illustrate Africa's history before Europeans arrived. Lukasa memory
boards and "map" staffs are seen vis a vis Western maps. Different
historical experiences influence "the way we make policy decisions and
how we see our future society." Has audio files of speeches about the
project by Frene Ginwala and Naledi Pandor. From South Africa's Parliament,
Cape Town. Includes the Da Ming Hun Yi Tu (The Amalgamated Map of the Great
Ming Empire) (1389) "believed to be the oldest
map accurately reflecting the shape of the African continent." http://www.pmpsa.gov.za/
Has a map showing the South
African Provinces. Click on the Province map and find a list of places:
cities, towns, villages, the day's weather, and the URL of the relevant
tourism
board. Click on a city name and find facts about the city. Find distances
between towns, find national parks and reserves, eco-regions for
South Africa, the border posts by road for neighboring countries , hotels,
etc. [KF] http://www.routes.co.za/index/index.html
Over 20 antiquarian African maps from the private collection of David Rumsey.
Includes detailed descriptions. Use the right hand icons to zoom in, read
map descriptions, etc. Maps cover the African continent, South Africa,
West Africa, North Africa, ethnographic, etc. http://www.davidrumsey.com/
Tourism site, with maps showing hotels by area. Maps of game parks - reserves. See the site map for additional travel information. [KF] http://www.sa-venues.com/sitemap.htm
Site to accompany a Stanford University seminar held Winter Quarter, 2001/2002.
Includes readings, documents, audio files. An interactive
South African map has layers (political, the great trek, gold mines, cities, homelands,
terrain). Click on the plus sign to add a layer or the minus sign to remove
a layer. [KF] http://www.stanford.edu/class/history48q/
The official national mapping agency of South Africa. Has a history
of geodetic surveying in South Africa. Sells printed
maps, aerial photos, aeronautical maps, digital maps, early 1930s maps
of the Cape Peninsula area (Cape Town). For South African schools offers
a MapPack FREE to all senior secondary schools teaching geography to Grade
12. Based in Cape Town. http://www.ngi.gov.za/
"a Directorate in the Department of Rural Development and Land Reform ( DRLR) under Chief Directorate : National Geospatial Information , it is a national initiative to co-ordinate the development of infrastructure needed to support the utilization of spatial information in decision making." http://nsif.dla.gov.za/
Finding aid for the Norwich collection of 316 antiquarian African maps housed in the Stanford University Libraries, Department of Special Collections. This finding aid does not include antiquarian African maps held at Stanford but not part of the Norwich Collection. http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt787007h3 and http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/spc/xml/norwich.xml
See also - The Rediscovery of Africa, 1400–1900: Antique Maps & Rare Images: Exhibition of the Stanford University Libraries’ holdings of antique African maps including the Oscar I. Norwich collection, described as one the finest private collections of African maps in the world. April 1 through August 1, 2004.
Official site. The administrative capital of South Africa. Formerly Pretoria. Has many full text documents (development plan, annual reports, municipal regulations, maps of shopping centers, Plant Ecological study of Rietvlei Nature Reserve), city budget, visitor
information, detailed street maps, maps in ArcIMS Viewer, street address search, bus routes/timetables, schools, recipes, link to Wonderbroom Airport, etc. [KF] http://www.tshwane.gov.za/
U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. South Africa Map
Has continent and country maps. Africa
continent: http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/reference_maps/africa.html South
Africa Map: http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/sf.html
UCT's African historical maps and Cape Town early street plans are online. A joint project of the UCT Libraries and the Stanford University Libraries funded by The William and Yvonne Jacobson Digital Africana Program at UCT. http://www.lib.uct.ac.za/blog/news/african-historical-maps/
A Yale Divinity School faculty-library initiative, web-searchable database
that contains electronic images and texts related to the history of Christianity.
Contents include: Map showing locations of mission
stations in Angola. (maps can be enlarged). Photographs of
missionaries. Map of Anglican Church dioceses in Africa ca. 1897. Maps of
Church Missionary Society missions in Africa. Map of the Partition
of Africa as settled by international agreements, ca. 1891. Slave
Trade Map of Equatorial Africa, ca. 1887. [KF] http://research.yale.edu:8084/divdl/adhoc/index.jsp
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