| 5.10 LAND ALLOCATIONS IN 1921 |
| Data ID |
| Description: | Allocation of land into freehold, communal or government in 1921 |
| Chapter: | 5 Land and History |
| File name: | Land allocations in 1921 |
| File type: | ArcView shapefile |
| Geographical area: | Namibia |
| Keywords: | land |
| | allocation |
| | 1921 |
| Notes on data, analysis and | Boundaries as depicted in the map of South West Africa produced by the Surveyor General, 1921 were recreated by |
| compilation: | merging, editing and deleting farm polygons from the present day farm shapefile (see Fig 5.32). This approach worked |
| | well as most present day farms are subdivisions of the original boundaries defined at this time. |
| Data quality and organisation |
| Positional Accuracy: | 1:100 000 scale; 50 - 250 m positional accuracy |
| Vector/Raster: | Vector |
| Spatial reference |
| Projection: | Geographic |
| Fields |
| Field name | Field description |
| LANDUSE | Type of allocation: farmland, government, communal |
| NAME | Name of tribal area |
| Source/Distribution |
| Data Source: | Map of South West Africa produced by the Surveyor General, 1921 |
| Contact: | Jeremy Silvester |
| Online/Offline Address: | History Department, UNAM |
| Distribution notes: | Unrestricted |