[OSGeo Africa] Suburbs

Antony Cooper ACooper at csir.co.za
Thu Mar 19 14:05:45 PDT 2020


Dear Patrick

Primarily, the problem is that there is not one common definition of a suburb.  So, you need to define what you mean by a suburb, and then look for that.  A further complication is that widely-used suburb names are sometime colloquial rather than 'official'.

Regards
Antony


>>> On 19 March 2020 at 22:41, in message
<CAHwEHm2W6qahEeMCJDBcZUtFXCT6MhAE5bb0BtS_DiUnR9bScA at mail.gmail.com>, Nic
Klopper <nic at 1map.co.za> wrote:
> Hi Patrick
> 
> The Stats SA sub-places is probably the closest you'll get.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Nic
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> On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 11:14 AM Patrick Ric-Hansen <patrick at compuplot.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> Good morning All,
>>
>>
>>
>> Is there a reliable spatial dataset of suburbs for South Africa?
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>>
>>
>> Patrick Ric-Hansen
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