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Atlases

Southern African Country Profiles
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) covers the southern part of the African continent and is home to 200 million people (2002). The publication of socio-economic and development profiles of the 14 Member States is a joint project of SADC through the Regional Remote Sensing Unit (RRSU) in partnership with the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) and the Southern African Research and Documentation Centre (SARDC) I Musokotwane Environment Resource Centre for Southern Africa (IMERCSA).

Web Atlas on Regional Integration in West Africa
This site is based on the work carried out by ECOWAS and the SWAC in order to promote regional integration in West Africa. This work aims to emphasise the relevance of the West African region, transnational dynamics and the veritable intensity of the regional dimension of some agricultural, environmental, industrial or trade issues by using maps, graphics and short analyses.

Dictionaries

GIS 101 - Definitions
The field of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is filled with scientific terminology that can become very frustrating to those attempting to learn about it.

GIS Dictionary
Association for Geographic Information.

Hardware

Contex

Large format scanners, 3D Printers Site

GTCO CalComp Peripherals

Scanners/Digitising tablets

Hewlett-Packard (HP)

Plotters, printers, etc

Kodak
Printers

MacDermid
Large format printers

ProCapture
Scanners

VIDAR
Wide format scanners

Xerox

Large format printers

FOSS GIS

Intergraph Systems (GeoMedia Image)

Leica Geosystems (ERDAS)

MapInfo

News

Project aims to map SA's coral reefs
Coral reefs are not just pretty, says Prideel Majiedt, the...
Google Map Maker coming to Africa
Google launched their new technology, Map Maker, in...
Google Crowdsources Mapping Africa
Google’s efforts to map Africa have been increasing significantly over...
African Union signs agreement with the European Commission on geospace
The European Commission will work with the African Union in...
OSS slashes geospatial costs for SA
Open source software reduced the government’s software expenses for geospatial...

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