[OSGeo Africa] Updated 1970s/1980s Nambian topo online

[Tim Sutton]

Wow that is fantastic! Thanks for sharing Grant!

Regards

Tim

On Wed, Jul 2, 2025 at 1:00 PM Grant Slater via Africa <
africa at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I now have a complete set of the 1970s - 1980s 1:50k topographic map
> series of South West Africa / Namibia
>
> https://namibia-topo.openstreetmap.org.za/
>
> Huge thanks to Sibylle Engelhard for sharing the final missing sheets.
>
> If you want to use it in QGIS the XYZ Connection URL is:
>
> https://namibia-topo.openstreetmap.org.za/layer/na_sgswa_topo_50k/{z}/{x}/{y}.png
>
> By popular demand I've also made the non map areas transparent to
> allow easy overlay over other maps.
>
> I am very interested in putting other historic African topographic map
> series online. If anyone has any scanned sheets they are willing to
> share with me I would be very grateful.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Grant
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