In house data sets

We acknowledge the following data custodians and data vendors:

Esri South Africa for providing a framework and collection of available open data sources in South Africa: Data in a Box - Esri South Africa (esri-southafrica.com)
Municipal Demarcation Board: Municipal Demarcation Board (arcgis.com)
The Humanitarian Data Exchange: South Africa - Subnational Administrative Boundaries - Humanitarian Data Exchange (humdata.org)
Download South Africa Administrative Boundary Shapefiles - Provinces, Districts, Wards and more - (igismap.com)
Department of Forestry, fisheries & the Environment: GIS Data Downloads | EGIS (environment.gov.za) and GIS Data Downloads | Environmental Geographical Information Systems (E-GIS)
CDNGI Geospatial Portal (cdngiportal.co.za)
Department of Agriculture, Land Reform & Rural Development: (dalrrd.gov.za)
Openstreetmap.Org (www.openstreetmap.org)
National Geo-spatial Information (Department of Rural Development and Land Reform)

(If any data custodian was omitted from the list, please do not hesitate to contact the map library)

DISCLAIMER: The data sets are open data sets and made available as obtained from various data custodians and vendors. We do not accept responsibility for inaccurate, erroneous or outdated data sets. The data sets are used at your discretion and at own risk.

Administrative boundaries

Elevation

Education

Environmental

Hydrology

Infrastructure

Locality

Transportation

Demographic Sub place

Demographics.zip

Open Street Map

1_50 000 Vector

Hardcopy datasets

The following data is available on hard drive. Please bring your own storage device and make an appointment with Mrs Lotz potgice@unisa.ac.za

shp data available 2016

Census 2011 Spatial data
Contours 5m 2013
Contours 5m 2016
Demarcations board 2012
Demarcations board 2016
Topo50 Vector

Data per province:

Administrative registration
Compilations
Deeds office area
Erf
Farm portion
General plan
Holdings
Lease area
Local municipality
Mineral rights
Parent farm
Provincial
Public place
Servitude area
Servitude line
Street names
Streets
Subdivisional general plan
Subdivisional plan

Additional data

Arial photos 2010
SA geology 2002
Shapefiles 2006 full cover
Air transport area
Artificial surface area
Artificial surface line
Barrier line
Boundary area area
Boundary line line
Building area
Building point
Control point point
Drainage line line
Inland water area
Land use area
Map index area
Railway line
Railway point
Relief line
Relief point
River area
River line
Road line
Structure line
Structure point
Topo area area
Topo line line
Topo point point
Vegetation area
Vegetation line
Vegetation point
Water source point

PlanetGIS 2016

You will require PlanetGIS Explorer 7.1 to open the data. Download for free. Full updated data sets can also be downloaded on the PlanetGIS website.

Africa map
Full cover Cadastral 2014
Full cover Cadastral 2015
Full cover Cadastral 2016
Contours 5m selected cover
Contours 20m
Landcover South Africa
Landsat7
Orthophotos full cover
Topographical South Africa
Toposheets full cover
World map