LAND USE
Data ID
File name: land uses
File path: d:\north_central\Land_use\
File type: Arcview shapefile
Category: Land use
Description: General description of land use in North Central. Land uses include "enclosed" farms , conservancy boundaries,

conservation areas, commercial & government farms, cleared areas & townlands
Status: Completed
Geographical area: north-central Namibia

north-central Namibia
Keywords: grazing

land use

farming

conservancies

townlands

resettlement farms

communal grazing
Date of last update: 1999/12/01
ID notes: This information was valid as at the end of 1999.

A variety of sources of information were used to demarcate the boundaries on these maps. Boundaries of the

Tsumeb and Mangetti farms were taken from digitised cadastral maps of farms, global positioning systems were

used to record the boundaries of some resettlement farms in Ohangwena, as well as Okashana. Other boundaries

of government and resettlement farms were traced off aerial photographs or sketch maps. Boundaries of large,

‘informally fenced’ farms in Omusati and Oshana were mapped from an aeroplane using a global positioning

system, while the outer boundary of the large fenced area in Oshikoto was drawn after extensive aerial mapping

(aeroplane using a global positioning system) of the many fenced areas. Communal grazing areas were

demarcated as those outside the most densely populated zones.
Location notes:
Data quality and organisation
Positional Accuracy: variable
Vector/Raster: Vector
Data quality notes:
Spatial reference
Projection: Geodetic
Datum: Bessel
Spatial reference notes:
Fields
Field name Field description Field source/notes
ID unique identifier
SOURCE
NAME
HECTARES Area in hectares
USES
Source/Distribution
Lineage/Source of Data: Environmental Profiles Project - see ID notes
Author of Data Source: Environmental Profiles Project
Contact: Environmental Profiles Project or Natural Resource Information Service (NRIS)
Online/Offline Address: Environmental Profiles Project,

Directorate of Environmental Affairs, P/Bag 13306, Windhoek,

Tel: 061 249015

www.dea.met.gov.na

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