Data capturing includes the collection or creation of spatial information for use in geospatial representation or analysis. Data capturing performed by the CGA can include tablet or on-screen digitising, scanning, manual database entry, field-work collection, and a wide variety of spatial data acquisition.

Data capturing performed by the CGA can include tablet or on-screen digitising, scanning, manual database entry, field-work collection, and a wide variety of spatial data acquisition.

Notable completed digitising projects include:

  • A detailed high tide coastline of South Africa, from high resolution aerial photographs [link to Products:Coastline]
  • The urban edges and formal/informal sectors of towns in the Western Cape [link to Products:UrbanEdges]
  • The current regions for bottlers of The Coca-Cola Company, from 1989 legal contracts;
  • The 1907 train tracks of South Africa, from historical maps;
  • The 1911 Census regions of South Africa, from historical maps;
  • The bathymetry, coastline and point depths for a number of sites along the African coast, for WSP Coastal Engineers.
  • The geology of the northern region of Western Australia, from the Australian 1:250000 geological map series