Namibia

Common Operational Datasets

Administrative Boundaries
Category Title Abstract How To Obtain Date of dataset Date data registered Data Type Most Recent Known Changes
Admin Level 4 Boundaries Administrative Boundaries Level 4

Enumerator Area (EA) Boundaries, from the 2001 Census.

Obtained from the Namibia Vulnerability Asessment Committee (NVAC) / SADC.

 2001 2012-01-11 Areas (polygons)
Admin Level 2 Boundaries Administrative Boundaries Level 2

Administrative Boundaries Level 2 (Constituencies).

Obtained from the Namibia Vulnerability Asessment Commitee (NVAC) / SADC.

 Unknown 2012-01-11 Areas (polygons)
Admin Level 1 Boundaries Aministrative Boundaries Level 1

Administrative Boundaries Level 1 (Regions).

Data generated by OCHA ROSA from the Administrative Boundaries Level 2 (Constituencies) obtained from the Namibia Vulnerability Assessment Committee (NVAC), by merging boundaries based on the Admin 1 Region name field.  

 Unknown 2012-01-11 Areas (polygons)

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Populated Places
Category Title Abstract How To Obtain Date of dataset Date data registered Data Type Most Recent Known Changes
Settlements (villages, towns, cities) Place Names

Points represent place names for Namibia derived from Lat/Long data downloaded from NGA website (9638 records).

 

Data Originator: National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency; Data Provider: University of Georgia - ITOS (GIST). Download Location.

 1994 to 2007 2012-01-11 Points
Settlements (villages, towns, cities) Town/Settlement Areas

Townland Areas, with names (70 records). Townland boundaries for municipalities, towns, villages, declared settlements, surveyed settlements and identified settlements. These are areas declared as towns, villages or settlement areas in 2001 from a list supplied by Louis Esterhuizen. Survey Diagrams were obtained from the Surveyor General and co-ordinates were used to create the townland boundaries. In a very few cases, the farm map was used to extract the relevant boundaries. The Ministry of Regional and Local Government and Housing should be contacted to get up-to-date information on the status of each urban area. Positional Accuracy: Very accurate where only survey diagrams have been used. As accurate as the farm shapefile (1:100 000 scale, 50 - 250 m positional accuracy) where these boundaries were used.

Obtained from the Namibia Vulnerability Assessment Committee (NVAC)/SADC. Data Source: Survey Diagrams; Contact: Office of the Surveyor General; Address: Robert Mugabe Avenue, P/Bag 13182, Windhoek;  Distribution notes: Unrestricted

 2001 2012-01-11 Areas (polygons)
Settlements (villages, towns, cities) Place Location Points

Namibia Location Points, with names and type (12471 records). Villages, Settlements, Cultural Villages, Farms, Cattle Posts, Camp Sites, Refugee Camps, Border Posts, Churchs, Water Points, NamWater, Police Stations, Mines.

Obtained from the Namibia Vulnerability Assessment Committee (NVAC) / SADC.

 Unknown 2012-01-11 Points
Settlements (villages, towns, cities) Towns and Settlements

Towns and Settlement Location Points (607 records), with names and population by gender.

Download shapefile from the Namibia Atlas.

 2002 2012-01-11 Points

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Population Statistics
Category Title Abstract How To Obtain Date of dataset Date data registered Data Type Most Recent Known Changes
Admin Level 4 Boundaries Population Census 2001, by Enumerator Area

Population from the 2001 Census, including males, females and number of households, by Enumerator Area.

(The preliminary results of the 2011 Census are due to be released in March 2012)

Obtained from the Namibia Vulnerability Assessment Committee (NVAC) / SADC.

 2001 2012-01-11 Areas (polygons)

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Humanitarian Profile

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Transportation Network
Category Title Abstract How To Obtain Date of dataset Date data registered Data Type Most Recent Known Changes
Aerodromes (airports, airfields, HLZs, etc.) Transporation Systems & Services

Transportation Systems & Services: Airport Points, Border Post Points and Railway Lines.

Download shapefiles from the Namibia Atlas.

 2002 2012-01-11 Multiple Types
Roads Roads

Road Lines, with road numbers and type attributes (main,trunk and district roads).

Shapefile obtained from the Namibia Vulnerability Assessment Committee (NVAC).  Kmz files downloadable from the Namibia Atlas: Main Roads, Trunk Roads, District Roads, Road Numbers.

 2002 2012-01-11 Lines

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Hydrology
Category Title Abstract How To Obtain Date of dataset Date data registered Data Type Most Recent Known Changes
Rivers Rivers

River Lines, with names (771 records). No type field.

Obtained from the Rundu Regional Office on flood mission to Namibia in 2011.

 Unknown 2012-01-11 Lines
Water Bodies Dams, Lakes and Pans

Dams, Lakes and Pans, with some names.

Obtained from the Rundu Regional Office on flood mission to Namibia in 2011.

 Unknown 2012-01-11 Areas (polygons)
Rivers Perennial River Basins & the Cuvelai System-Catchment

Perennial River Basins & the Cuvelai System-Catchment, in Namibia.

Download the zipped shapefile from the Namibia Atlas.

 2002 2012-01-11 Multiple Types
Rivers Rivers, Basins, Pans & Lakes

Namibia Rivers (4131 records, with some names and type attributes), Basins, Pans and Lakes.

Download the zipped shapefiles from the Namibia Atlas.

 2002 2012-01-11 Multiple Types

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Hypsography
Category Title Abstract How To Obtain Date of dataset Date data registered Data Type Most Recent Known Changes
Contour Lines Countour Lines (100m)

Countour Lines at 100m Intervals. Interpolated (using a kriging interpolator) from a 30 second grid DTM. Grid cell size was set to 500m. The shapefile was produced directly from the grid using elevation intervals of 100m. Positional Accuracy: Interpolated from 1km grid. DTM originally obtained from Johan van Rensburg, Geo Business Solutions, Windhoek. E-mail: javr@iafrica.com.na Distribution notes: Unrestricted

 

Download shapefile from the Namibia Atlas.

2002 2012-01-11 Lines

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Fundamental Operational Datasets

Damage Assessments

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Education
Title Abstract How To Obtain Data Type Date of dataset Most Recent Known Changes
Education Facilities

Education Facility Location Points. Adult Education/Literacy Facility Points (556 Records); Higher Education Facility Points e.g. Universities/Colleges (20 records); Basic Education Facility Points e.g. primary, secondary and combined schools (1527 records), with names and some contact details.

Obtained from the Rundu Regional Office on flood mission to Namibia in 2011.

 Points Unknown
Education Facilities

Namibia Education Facilities (1535 records), including school names and type (primary, secondary and combined).

Download shapefile from the Namibia Atlas.

 Points 2002

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Elections

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Food Security

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Nutrition

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Health
Title Abstract How To Obtain Data Type Date of dataset Most Recent Known Changes
Health Facilities

Health Facility Location Points (338 records), with names, type and some contact numbers.

Obtained from the Rundu Regional Office on flood mission to Namibia in 2011.

 Points Unknown
Health Facilities

Health Facility Location Points (334 records), with names and status (open in 2001).

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 Points 2002

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Affected Persons Locations (Refugee, IDP, etc)
Title Abstract How To Obtain Data Type Date of dataset Most Recent Known Changes
Flood Relocation Camp Points

Flood Relocation Camp Point Locations. Points captured by OCHA ROSA from place names or co-ordinates from the Rapid Assessment Mission sample camps visited in April 2011. (Please note that this dataset does not include all camps).

Data Source: OCHA ROSA

 Points 2011

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Logistics

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Protection

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Security

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Other
Title Abstract How To Obtain Data Type Date of dataset Most Recent Known Changes
Climate Data Sets

Climatic Data Sets: Temperature, Rainfall, Relative Humidity, Evaporation, Fog, Sunshine and Radiation shapefiles.

Download shapefiles from the Namibia Atlas.

 Multiple Types 2002

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