In my experience that are not so keen on credit cards (http://w3sli.wcape.gov.za/).

To those who were excited about it, well my Great Southern African Border Expedition is no longer on this year. We couldn't make the dates work out around Christmas.

In stead I will visit the South African Survey Office in person, who already sent me the map indexes, in person. And offcourse spend Christmas on the beach :-)

Jesper

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brendan Whyte" <brwhyte@...>
To: <boundarypoint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, June 08, 2001 4:10 AM
Subject: [BoundaryPoint] south african tripoints

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