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>
Service Item Id: 5e93c76f419d462ba9e731b708f9433e
Copyright Text: Municipal Demarcation Board, 2018, Pretoria, Republic of South Africa
Description: Data on road surface type, condition and traffic volume were compiled by Africon Limited for the AICD study led by the World Bank. Data from the South African National Roads Agency (SANRAL) were reviewed and transport experts were consulted in an effort to derive estimates for all of the primary and secondary road network.
The following attributes were collected:
LINKNO: ID of the link ,
ROADNO: ID of the road ,
START_KM: Start of link (0)
END_KM: End of link LENGTHKM: Length of link (km) ,
STARTDESC: Name of the locality where the link starts ,
ENDDESC: Name of the locality where the link finishes ,
CLASS: World Bank functional classification ,
REGION: Name of the 1st level of administrative division (province) ,
WIDTH: Width of road (m) ,
LANES: Number of lanes ,
SURFTYPE: Classification of surface type (paved or unpaved) ,
CONDITION: Description of road condition ,
AADT: Estimated average annual daily traffic
Attribute values may be unknown (or value = 0) for any of the descriptive characteristics.