Subject: south african tripoints<br/>
Date: Jun 08, 2001 @ 02:10<br/>
Author: Brendan Whyte (&quot;Brendan Whyte&quot; &lt;brwhyte@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-774799583">For those interested in South African and Swazi tripoints, you can order <br/>
1:50 000 topographic maps with a credit card from the South African survey <br/>
dept.<br/>
They are 22Rand each.<br/>
There are about 8 Rand per US$.<br/>
<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:sales@...">sales@...</a><br/>
<br/>
The necessary sheets are:<br/>
Mozambique-Swazi-South Africa (south) 2632Cc<br/>
ditto north: 2531Dd<br/>
Zimbabwe-Mozam-SAfrica: 2231Ad<br/>
Zimbabwe-Botswana-SAfr: 2229Ab<br/>
Botswana-Namibia-SAfr: 2420Cc. however, the north-south namibian border here <br/>
appears to be right on the edge of the sheet, so there will probably be no <br/>
info on the Namibian side of the border, just a border symbol up the western <br/>
edge of the sheet.<br/>
Each map covers 15&#39;x15&#39;, with 16 sheets making up a 1degree square.<br/>
I do not know how much, if any, detail is given for the areas outside South <br/>
Africa<br/>
<br/>
The South Africans also do 1:250 000 maps, 1:500k and 1:1million.<br/>
The 1:500k maps also cover all of Namibia, so on sheet 1722 Katima Mulilo, <br/>
which covers the Caprivi strip, you get the Zambia/Angola/Namib tripoint and <br/>
the supposed Zam/Zim/Bot/Nam quadpoint.<br/>
If they haven&#39;t been revised yet, sheets 2113 Windhoek and 2314 Rehoboth <br/>
show Walvis Bay. They were 1984 and 19777 editions respectively, but I think <br/>
Rehoboth at leats has been revised since the 1998 catalogue in my hands. You <br/>
can always email and ask.<br/>
These Namibian 1:500k topos come in aeronautical editions only.<br/>
The sheets for South Africa at this and 1:250k show magesterial districts, <br/>
the admin level below province. Most of the old homeland boundaries of <br/>
Ciskei, Transkei, Venda and Bophuthatswana followed these magesterial <br/>
districts, so in effect you can buy they maps with these ex-independent <br/>
state boundaries shown.<br/>
<br/>
BW<br/>
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