Help purchase 1:50k Topographic series of Swaziland?

Firefishy님이 English로 2023년 12월 1일에 게시함.

A few years back, I successfully led a crowdfunding effort to raise £975 to purchase scans of the 1970s / 1980s 1:50k topographic map series of South West Africa / Namibia from a commercial map archive. It was a great success and I put them online: https://namibia-topo.openstreetmap.org.za/

Recently I have been speaking to the archive again about purchasing similar map series for other African countries. The map series vary per country from the 1960s to 1990s. Many were created with support from the United Kingdom’s former Directorate of Overseas Surveys (DOS).

The 1991 1:50k Topographic series of Swaziland (now Eswatini) published by the Swaziland’s Surveyor General is available. It is made up of 31 sheets in total. The scans are supplied clipped and unclipped. Total price is US$ 400 for the scans.

It would be fantastic to get these maps online. Would you be willing to support this purchase?

Link: Worldcat reference for the 1991 Swaziland map series.

Example of the join between 4 cropped sheets: Example of 4 cropped sheets joining

위치: Extension 3, Inkhundla Mbabane, Hhohho Region, H100, Eswatini

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2023년 12월 3일 04:26에 fititnt님의 의견

Bump! (there’s no like here, so I will leave a comment)

Perhaps this type of map may be unusual among mappers more accustomed to aerial images, but they are useful!!

Here in Brazil I often use the “Cartas Topográficas do Excército Brasileiro”. Although it is outdated (some parts as old as 30 years, not as easy keep updated, because it requires field survey), there is a lot that does not usually change (although it still needs to be reconfirmed with more sources, such as aerial image). Also, sometimes aerial image is not as evident what a feature is, but with these kind of maps, helps a lot.

So, yes, this kind of map, is useful!

2023년 12월 11일 17:10에 CjMalone님의 의견

I’ll help fund it.

2023년 12월 17일 15:06에 Firefishy님의 의견

I am waiting for final confirmation from the private archive before I sent up a funding website.

Once the British Library is up and running again I will renew my pass and look at their archive of the Directorate of Overseas Surveys (DOS) map sheets of Africa.

2024년 6월 7일 13:07에 Firefishy님의 의견

I’ve had no luck purchasing the sheets. After good communication with the archive they went silent and appear to be ghosting me. :-(

2024년 10월 2일 09:17에 Firefishy님의 의견

@rafnow87 Wow! Thank you.

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