Map Sources

GPN uses a number of sets of maps to identify the locations given in the toponym records.

Listed below are sources which are available publicly or on the internet.

CERSGIS: Centre for Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Services, University of Ghana

GSS District Maps: Available on GPN by permission of the Ghana Statistical Service

IndexMundi: Ghana A-Z

NDPC: Poverty Maps

Survey of Ghana: Ghana Land Commission, Map Sales, Giffard Road, Accra: 1:50,000 & 1:62,500 Sheets

Survey of Ghana: Road Map 1962: GPN Map Squares

US maps: University of Texas Libraries: West Africa 1:250,000 Series G504, U.S. Army Map Service, 1955