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   120 Years of Surveys and Mapping in Tanzania (1893 – 2013)

   Journal Articles & Books

   July, 2013

   Tanzania

   Land & Food Security

   Land & Investments

   agrarian reform

   cadastral register

   land access

   land administration

   land use mapping

   land-use planning

   The history of surveys and mapping in Tanzania has been influenced by two European cultures through its colonization; first by the German and then by the British. During the German Administration, surveys and mapping activities were carried out by the Department of Surveys and Agriculture from 1893 to 1914. When the British took over the mandate for the territory after World War I, the also used the “old” German maps until when they when they started the surveys to produce other topographic maps from 1946. In 1961, the Surveys and Mapping Division was created.