5.23 LAND USES

Data ID

Description:

8 landuse categories

Chapter:

5 Land and History

File name:

landuse

File type:

Arcview shapefile

Geographical area:

Namibia

Keywords:

allocation

land

use

Notes on data, analysis and

Created from the following sources:

compilation:

1) Agriculture and tourism on freehold land was derived from the farms map provided by Marina Coetzee at MAWRD

(this had ownership details up to date to 1998 from Deeds Office).

2) Government agriculture, other government/parastatal and resettlement were derived from:

- farms map provided by Marina Coetzee at MAWRD (Note that for several hundred farms, no deed records were

available. It was assumed therefore that this was by default government land).

- Ministry of Lands, Resettlement and Rehabilitation (info on land purchases and donations) - assumed to be more

reliable than MAWRD data

- Land values database (compiled from several sources, including ministries and Deeds Office) - assumed to be less reliable

than MAWRD data, therefore only used to fill in gaps

3) State protected was derived from:

- protected areas (Fig 5.33)

4) Urban was derived from Fig 5.19

5) Large scale agriculture on communal land were derived from the North Central Profile (Mendelsohn, el Obeid &

Roberts), the Kavango Profile (Mendelsohn in prep) and various informal communications.

6) Small scale agriculture on communal land was derived from the communal land shapefile (Fig 5.21)

Data quality and organisation

Positional Accuracy:

variable - at worst as accurate as the farm shapefile (see Fig 5.32) (1:100 000 scale; 50 - 250 m positional accuracy).

Vector/Raster:

Vector

Spatial reference

Projection:

Geographic

Fields

Field name

Field description

SUBCAT

slightly more detailed break down of landuse

LANDUSE

type of landuse: state protected, governement agriculture etc.

Source/Distribution

Data Source:

See notes on data analysis and compilation

Contact:

Online/Offline Address:

Distribution notes:

Unrestricted