5.13 THE ODENDAAL COMMISSION’S 1964 PROPOSALS

Data ID

Description:

Allocation of land, existing and as proposed by the Odendaal Commission in 1964

Chapter:

5 Land and History

File path:

\\Carole\d\atlas\Atlas_Data\5_Land_and_History\5.13 The Odendaal Commission's 1964 proposals

File name:

1966

File type:

Arcview shapefile

Geographical area:

Namibia

Keywords:

land

allocation

1964

Odendaal

Notes on data, analysis and

Boundaries as depicted in the map of South West Africa produced by the Surveyor General, 1966 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 (or the same as) the original boundaries defined at this time. The 1966

map was used as this is the first map of farm boundaries produced by the Surveyor General following the Odendaal

proposals. It illustrates the division of land immediately following the proposals. In the shapefile, communal land is

divided into two categories: land proposed for use as communal land by the Odendaal Commission and land still assigned

as communal land in 1966.

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: government, farmland, communal existing,

communal Odendaal

NAME	Name of communal area, townland or other feature

Source/Distribution

Data Source:

Map of South West Africa produced by the Surveyor General, 1966

Contact:

National Archives

Online/Offline Address:

Ministry of Basic Education, Sports and Culture.

National Archives

Eugene Marais Str

P/Bag 13250

Windhoek

Distribution notes:

Unrestricted