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Chief Directorate: National Geo-spatial Information

national mapping agency of South Africa

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ5096713 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Chief Directorate: National Geo-spatial Information or CD:NGI (formerly the Chief Directorate: Surveys and Mapping or CD:SM), is the national mapping agency of South Africa. It is part of the Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development.

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The public source identifies “Chief Directorate: National Geo-spatial Information” as national mapping agency of South Africa. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Chief, Directorate and National.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current 38-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Chief, Directorate and National providing the first useful test.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 8, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5096713. Authority coordinates are -33.951, 18.469. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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This entry incorporates text from “Chief Directorate: National Geo-spatial Information” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.