Description: <DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><DIV><P STYLE="margin:1 1 1 0;"><SPAN>This line shapefile represents roads in South Africa. The bulk of the data, for this layer, was captured from the South African Provincial Map Series (2nd edition 2001), i.e. LIMPOPO 1:700 000, NOTHERN CAPE 1:1 200 000,KWAZULU - NATAL 1:700 000, WESTERN CAPE 1:800 000, EASTERN CAPE 1:800 000, MPUMALANGA 1:600 000, NORTH WEST 1:700 000, FREE STATE 1:700 000,GAUTENG 1:300 000</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV></DIV>
Description: <DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><DIV><P><SPAN>The </SPAN><SPAN>local </SPAN><SPAN>(Category </SPAN><SPAN>B</SPAN><SPAN>) municipalities are municipalities that are co</SPAN><SPAN>ntained within a district </SPAN><SPAN>(Category </SPAN><SPAN>C</SPAN><SPAN>) municipalities. The Metropolitan (Category A) Municipalities are municipalities with the major cities as the core (e.g. City of Johannesburg) and they are outside the District Municipalities. When the boundaries of local municipalities change and affect the boundary of district municipalities, the new district municipal boundary is generated. In the </SPAN><SPAN>Local </SPAN><SPAN>Municipalities 2018 shapefile there are </SPAN><SPAN>205</SPAN><SPAN /><SPAN>Local </SPAN><SPAN>Municipalities and 8 Metropolitan Municipalities. </SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-weight:bold;">Note that Metropolitan Municipalities are included in the </SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-weight:bold;">Local </SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-weight:bold;">Municipalities shapefile to ensure that the layer is continuous throughout the country. If the Metropolitan Municipalities were left out, there will be void spaces in the layer. </SPAN></P><P><SPAN>The topology of the features has been checked to eliminate duplications of vertices and ensure the integrity of the feature geometry. The projection of the feature class is </SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-weight:bold;">Geographic (Lat/Lon)</SPAN><SPAN /><SPAN>and if one has to calculate the area of features, it must be transformed to UTM Projection and metres be used as units of measurements.</SPAN></P><P><SPAN /></P></DIV></DIV></DIV>
Copyright Text: Municipal Demarcation Board, 2018, Pretoria, Republic of South Africa