GIS - special collections, UCT libraries

1. Geospatial data & map resources
Postgraduate workshop & seminar
programme
2014
Special Collections

2. Using maps for research
• Topography
- Natural and man-made features,
- Contour lines,
- Elevations and land formations
• Historical research
- Making sense of the past
• Business
- Business planning
- Conservation restrictions
- Population centres
- Transport routes
• Family history
- Genealogy research
- Name changes

3. Using maps for research (cont.)
• Travel
- Plan trips
- Local attractions
- Recreational facilities
• Recreation
- Walking trails
- Driving holidays
- Camping sites
• Military history
- Strategic military information
• Science and the environment
- Convey scientific information
- Natural vegetation
- Climate zones

4. Maps in Special Collections
• Scope
- Africa
- South Africa
- Local
• Status
- Catalogued
- Uncatalogued
- Digitised

5. Where and how to find them
• Catalogued maps
– in the Library catalogue
• Digitised maps
– found on DigiTool
– in three categories:
- African Historical Maps
- Cape Town Street Plans
- Military Mapping, including two Imperial Map series:
i) Imperial Maps of South Africa
ii) Imperial Maps of the Cape of Good Hope
• Help to find maps
– Oceanography LibGuide

6. Other Sources of African Maps
• Atlas of Mutual Heritage:
http://www.atlasofmutualheritage.nl/
• Afriterra: http://www.afriterra.org/
• Africa South of the Sahara: http://www-sul.
stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/map.html