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Umhlaba Geomatics
Our Services
Umhlaba Geomatics are passionate about offering expert services in Municipal Valuations, Land Audits, and Land Surveying.
Our head office is located in Dundee, with additional branches in Laingsburg and Hartenbos.
Municipal Valuations
Umhlaba Geomatics has 35 years in Property Valuation and has been registered for 11 years as a GISc Practitioner. Umhlaba Geomatics Inc. has developed spatially enabled Valuation Roll Management Systems (VRMS) for the respective local municipalities as well as digital Property Register databases.
Land Surveying
Umhlaba Geomatics have 46 years of experience in land surveying. Employees have obtain BSs Land Surveying qualification. This will ensure you of professional service.
GIS Consultants
Umhlaba Geomatics distributes client-based GIS systems that are tailored to the specifications of particular projects.
Our Client Profile
A list of clients we have worked for.
Our Projects
Some of the projects our firm has undertaken.
Cadastral Surveys
Cadastral surveys have been undertaken extensively from Ladysmith to Edumbe and from Newcastle to Estcourt. And more recent, Dundee, Utrecht and Nqutu Townships.
Dump and Quarry Surveys
Umhlaba Geomatics Inc has also done mine dump and quarry surveys as well as volume calculations rehabilitation slope design and setting out.
Engineering Surveys
Numerous such surveys have been undertaken in Northern KwaZulu-Natal for Municipalities, Engineering Consultants and the Department of Transport.
GIS Data Manipulation
Our Company assisted uThukela Water’s GIS department in cleaning and converting CAD data into intelligible GIS data. This data manipulation involved transforming spatial data from various coordinate systems to a uniform one and creating various feature datasets from the different line types in the data.
Hydro-Census
Umhlaba Geomatics Inc. designed and implemented a GIS and spatially related database for the identification and maintenance of Rudimentary Water Source information. This data capture project was undertaken in the three District Municipalities: Umzinyathi, Amajuba and Uthukela, for the uThukela Water Partnership. Our key involvement in the project was to provide specialist GIS services in the form of data mapping and analysis, resulting in the identification of households that did not meet the RDP standards for water consumption.
Land Audits
We have conducted Land Audits, and continue to maintain cadastral datasets for the following Local Municpalites: Dannhauser-, Emadlangeni-, Msinga-, Nquthu-, Endumeni-, Umlalazi- and Okhahlamba Municipalities. Completing these audits involved the capture and reconstruction of coordinates for all cadastral properties from SG diagrams and then digitizing the relevant GIS layers according to the reconstructed coordinates. Umhlaba Geomatics Inc. has developed spatially enabled Valuation Roll Management Systems (VRMS) for the respective local municipalities as well as digital Property Register databases.
Labour Tenant Verification
We were contracted to collect and verify the Labour Tenant information for the applications lodged in terms of the Land Reform Act No 3/1996. We were appointed to complete this project for both the Umzinyathi and Zululand District Municipal areas. A spatially enabled database was developed to manage and report on committee, farm, and applicant information that was captured during the field verification process.
Mining
Umhlaba Geomatics Inc. has compiled numerous Regulation 2(2) plans required by the Department of Mineral Resources for the application of Mining Permits, Prospecting Rights and Mining Rights. We have also compiled numerous Diagrams in accordance with Regulations 40, 41 and 42 of the Mining Titles Registration Act required for the registration of rights.
PDA/ SPLUMA Applications
Numerous development application has been submitted to the local authorities including, Endumeni, Dannhauser, Umsinga, Nquthu, Newcastle, Abaqulusi, Emadlangeni, Edumbe, Impendle, Okhahlamba Municipalities. More recent (2019) Umhlaba Geomatics has submitted the development pack application to Impendle Municipality for a Low-Cost Housing in respect of Lower, Upper and Clearance Townships.
State Domestic Facility Surveys
We have been extensively involved with the Survey Services Sub-Directorate: Inland Regional Office of Land Administration wing of the Department: Traditional and Local Government Affairs. Specifically, Umhlaba Geomatics in association with HSK Simpson and Partners has assisted this sub-directorate in the identification and survey of State Domestic Facilities and PTO’s within the Nqutu Regional Authority Area.
Tribal Authority Surveys
During the past 8 years all the MSINGA and EMNAMBITHI traditional authority boundaries have been surveyed and, where necessary, Umhlaba Geomatics has facilitated negotiations between disputing Amakhosi.
Valuation Roll Management System VRMS
We have created spatially enabled valuation roll management systems for the following local municipalities: Dannhauser, Emadlangeni, Endumeni, Nquthu, Umlalazi, Msinga and Okhahlamba. These systems have a GIS built into a database, which allows for spatially enabled queries of the Municipal Valuation Roll. The ProVal system is also used for the maintenance and reporting of all matters relating to the Municipal Valuation Roll in accordance with the Municipal Property Rates Act.
Contact Us
UMHLABA GEOMTICS INCORPORATED for your independent Professional Property Valuation, Land Surveying and GIS Consultations.
Our head office is located in Dundee, with additional branches in Laingsburg and Hartenbos.
