Mapping Cape Town's Townships

There are to a greater extent than or less 437 informal settlements, or townships, inwards Cape Town. Places where many Cape Town citizens are forced to live, without draw of piece of work rights or safety of tenure. These informal settlements to a greater extent than oft than non convey a high density of draw of piece of work together with real hapless sanitation.

Code for Africa has mapped out Cape Town's informal settlements together with created a dashboard which allows yous to explore issues such equally draw of piece of work density, the historic menstruum of each township together with the sanitary conditions.

When the map showtime loads yous convey the selection to follow the stories of 2 township citizens. These stories supply a personal insight into the living weather inwards Cape Town's informal settlements. They besides act equally a tutorial guide to the map's features. As yous progress through these 2 stories yous are shown how to job the map's functions to explore the available township data.

If yous direct a township on the Struggle for Dignity map yous tin persuasion information on the selected village nether the map. This includes the township's name, age, number of households, family density together with the number of toilets per family together with the type of toilets available.

If yous job the buttons at the peak of the map yous tin browse a choropleth persuasion of the number of households, temporary toilets together with family density inwards each of the city's informal settlements.