| Series | Publisher | Scale | Years | Sheets |
| Gambia 1:25,000 Scale Kombo Peninsula Topographic Maps | The Republic of The Gambia | 1:25,000 | 1978 – 1978 | 8 |
| Gambia 1:50,000 Scale Image Maps | The Republic of The Gambia | 1:50,000 | 1975 – 1981 | 20 |
| Series | Publisher | Scale | Years | Sheets |
| Senegal 1:500,000 Scale Geological Maps | Bureau de Recherches Geologiques et Minieres | 1:500,000 | 1966 – 1966 | 4 |
| The Gambia 1:250,000 Scale Geological Maps | Ministry of Economic Planning and Industrial Development. Geological Unit | 1:250,000 | 1988 – 1988 | 1 |
| Series | Publisher | Scale | Years | Sheets |
| The World 1:30,000,000 Scale Topographic Map Series 1145 (NGA) | DMA | 1:30,000,000 | – | 2 |
East View Geospatial has an ongoing effort to add GIS census data to our Global Census Archive program. Please contact us for the status and availability of Gambia census resources.
| Series | Publisher | Scale | Years | Sheets |
| Soviet Military City Plans | Voenno-topograficheskoe upravlenie General’nogo shtaba (Soviet Union) | Varies | 1944 – 2003 | 3017 |
| Soviet Military 1:100,000 Scale Topographic Maps | Voenno-topograficheskoe upravlenie General’nogo shtaba (Soviet Union) | 1:100,000 | 1947 – 1999 | 24897 |
| Soviet Military 1:200,000 Scale Topographic Maps | Voenno-topograficheskoe upravlenie General’nogo shtaba (Soviet Union) | 1:200,000 | 1949 – 2009 | 17799 |
| Soviet Military 1:500,000 Scale Topographic Maps | Voenno-topograficheskoe upravlenie General’nogo shtaba (Soviet Union) | 1:500,000 | 1953 – 1998 | 3093 |
| Series | Publisher | Scale | Years | Sheets |
| NGA Nautical Charts POD Certified (All Scales) | National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency | Varies | 1943 – 2013 | 4517 |
| Series | Publisher | Scale | Years | Sheets |
| Joint Operations Graphic (JOG) 1:250,000 – Aeronautical | Defence Mapping Agency | 1:250,000 | 1958 – 2007 | 4204 |
| Tactical Pilotage Chart (TPC) 1:500,000 Scale – Aeronautical | Defence Mapping Agency | 1:500,000 | 1967 – 2006 | 598 |
| Operational Navigation Chart (ONC) 1:1,000,000 Scale – Aeronautical | Defence Mapping Agency | 1:1,000,000 | 1969 – 2001 | 243 |
| Jet Navigation Chart (JNC) 1:2,000,000 Scale – Aeronautical | Defence Mapping Agency | 1:2,000,000 | 1971 – 1999 | 117 |
| Global Navigation and Planning Chart (GNC) 1:5,000,000 Scale – Aeronautical | Defence Mapping Agency | 1:5,000,000 | 1981 – 1999 | 27 |
| Series | Publisher | Scale | Years | Sheets |
| Soviet Military 1:1,000,000 Scale Topographic Maps | Voenno-topograficheskoe upravlenie General’nogo shtaba (Soviet Union) | 1:1,000,000 | 1948 – 1994 | 1089 |
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Gambia is a linear West African state extending 150 miles inland along the Gambia river. The Department of Lands and Survey (GDLS) in Banjul is responsible for surveying and mapping and has published topographic and cadastral maps with support from British, German and American aid in the years since World War II.
The British Directorate of Colonial Surveys (later Directorate of Overseas Surveys (DOS) and now Ordnance Survey International (OSI)) initiated modern mapping of the country with an uncontoured 30-sheet map. This was superseded by a 20-sheet photomap also on the Transverse Mercator projection, Clarke 1880 ellipsoid (Series DOS 415P), compiled from 1972 aerial coverage and published between 1975 and 1977 with hachures and spot heights indicating relief. Since the 1970s photomaps have been extensively used to enable rapid creation of a modern map base of the largely flat flood plain topography. Other DOS mapping at this date included a 1:25,000 scale eight-sheet topographic map of the Kombo Peninsula with 10 m contours. This series was derived in part from photogrammetric plotting and in part from a 1:10,000 scale coastal strip map, published with a 5 m contour interval. Larger scale programs of cadastral maps were updated using aerial coverage in the DOS programmes and cover all the main settlements in the country at 1:1,250, 1:2,500 and 1:5,000 scales. These sheets are available from GDLS as diazo prints. DOS also published a two-sheet 1:250,000 scale map of Gambia. A map of electoral districts at this scale is also published.
In the 1980s a new basic scale map was surveyed for the whole country in 526 1:10,000 scale sheets. This diazo land use photomap was produced by the German Agency for Technical Cooperation, in conjunction with other German agencies. Urban growth centers were also mapped in this program and published as full topographic editions in 44 1:10,000 scale sheets. Other mapping in the late 1980s included the publication of a number of 20-sheet 1:50,000 themes and four-sheet 1:125,000 scale resources series. Land use, forest cover, agriculture and rangelands were compiled.
Since 1992 Gambia has used American, and German funding to establish an integrated environmental action plan, building upon these resources maps. It has been proposed to establish a decentralized environmental information system under the aegis of the new National Environment Centre, with existing 1:50,000 scale mapping captured and held in a structured digital database. New 1:25,000 scale colour aerial coverage was flown in 1993, and new black and white coverage a year later. It is intended to use the information system to derive 1:125,000 scale datasets for environmental management and to extend digital mapping to cadastral systems. A number of land use scales have already been compiled, including new 1:30,000 scale coverage of Banjul.
Soviet military mapping of Gambia is available at the following scales: 1:1,000,000 (1 sheet, complete coverage, published in 1986); 1:500,000 (2 sheets, complete coverage, published in 1985) and 1:200,000 (8 sheets, complete coverage, published 1985-1986). These products are available in paper, digital raster and digital vector GIS from East View Geospatial.
The Gambian agency responsible for hydrographic operations is the Gambia Ports Authority, but hydrographic charting of Gambian waters is carried out by the British Hydrographic Office.
In the late 1980s a new full-color 1:250,000 geological map was compiled to accompany a monograph about the geology and mineral resources of Gambia. This map was derived from 1:50,000 scale geological data mapped in a monochrome series covering the country in 20 sheets.
Land use, soils, and agricultural data are held by the Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources. The Soil and Water Management Unit has compiled a 1:25,000 scale national soil map, printed as ozalids with district sheet lines. The best available environmental data remains the 1:125,000 scale soils maps issued by DOS in the 1970s. Other British resources mapping from DOS includes a 1:25,000 scale full-color land use map.
Local tourist mapping of the Gambia is issued by the Gambia National Tourism Office, but the most useful small scale tourist coverage has been published by Freytag-Berndt (FB), Macmillan and International Travel Maps (ITM) Vancouver.
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