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After 28 years without a postal code system in Namibia, the national postal service provider NamPost introduced new postal codes in December 2018. [1] They consist of five digits, where the first two indicate the region, the last two the post office and the third digit is always a 0. Address format examples
OpenHistoricalMap allows anyone with a free account to contribute directly to the map through an editor such as the iD Web application or the JOSM desktop application. Contributors can georeference out-of-copyright maps and trace features from them. [16] They can contribute data individually or as part of guided mapathons. [17]
This article contains a list with gratis (but not necessarily open source) satellite navigation (or "GPS") software for a range of devices (PC, laptop, tablet PC, mobile phone, handheld PC (Pocket PC, Palm)). Some of the free software mentioned here does not have detailed maps (or maps at all) or the ability to follow streets or type in street ...
Maps are useful in presenting key facts within a geographical context and enabling a descriptive overview of a complex concept to be accessed easily and quickly. WikiProject Maps encourages the creation of free maps and their upload on Wikimedia Commons. On the project's pages can be found advice, tools, links to resources, and map conventions.
This is a list of notable commercial satellite navigation software (also known as GPS software) for various devices, with a specific focus on mobile phones, tablets, tablet PCs, (Android, iOS, Windows).
An especially prominent method is the digitization and georeferencing of historical maps. Old maps may contain valuable information about the past. By adding coordinates to such maps, they may be added as a feature layer to modern GIS data. This facilitates comparison of different map layers showing the geography at different times.
In the first years after independence of Namibia in 1990, the Swakopmund council changed many of the original German and Afrikaans street names to honor former and current Namibian leaders. The move met the resistance of inhabitants who collected the old street name plaques to display them on their private properties, and painted the old street ...
Border Mail: Postal History and Markings of the War in Angola and Along the Namibian Border, 1975–1976. Zug, Switzerland: G.J. van den Hurk, 1990 76p. Two further volumes appeared in 1990 (for 1977-80) and 1991 (for 1981-88). Van der Merwe, Barend Frederik. 'n Bedryfsekonomiese analise van die ontwikkeling van die poswese in Namibia. Pretoria ...