5.19 LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREAS

Data ID

Description:

Townland boundaries for municipalities, towns, villages, declared settlements, surveyed settlements and identified

settlements

Chapter:

5 Land and History

File name:

townlands

File type:

ArcView shapefile

Notes on data, analysis and

These are areas declared as towns, villages or settlement areas in 2001 from a list supplied by Louis Esterhuizen. Survey

compilation:

Diagrams were obtained from the Surveyor General and co-ordinates were used to create the townland boundaries. In a

very few cases, the farm map (see Fig 5.32) was used to extract the relevant boundaries. The Ministry of Regional and

Local Government and Housing should be contacted to get up-to-date information on the status of each urban area.

Data quality and organisation

Positional Accuracy:

Very accurate where only survey diagrams have been used. As accurate as the farm shapefile (1:100 000 scale, 50 - 250

m positional accuracy) where these boundaries were used.

Vector/Raster:

Vector

Spatial reference

Projection:

Geographic

Fields

Field name

Field description

NAME	Name of the town, village, setllement

CATEGORY

municipality, town, settlement etc.

REGION

region in which the townland is located

SOURCE

how the townland was created e.g. survey diagram, farm map etc.

Source/Distribution

Data Source:

Survey Diagrams

Contact:

Office of the Surveyor General

Online/Offline Address:

Robert Mugabe Avenue

P/Bag 13182

Windhoek

Distribution notes:

Unrestricted