1map NAD Search
The Search panel's Search Using dropdown always offers Google Street Addresses. In 1map it also offers eight more choices, all drawn from 1map's own National Address Database (NAD): South Africa's cadastral and municipal address records, rather than the open web. This page covers those eight, plus one more 1map-only way to find an address that needs no typing at all: clicking the map.
Erf numbers are part of some plans only
Where your site sells subscription plans, finding an erf by its number is part of some plans only: on 1map, Professional and up. With a plan that does not include erf numbers, Stand Number and Surveyor General Key (21 Digits) stay in Search Using with a lock; picking one shows a line saying so and a See plans button instead of the search box, and the server refuses those searches too. The other searches still work, but their results come without the erf, portion and allotment numbers and the SG key. Nothing is broken: upgrade your plan, or ask your administrator which plan you are on.
Where to find them
Open the Search panel down the left of the map and open Search Using. Google's option sits at the bottom of the list; the eight above it are 1map's:
| Search Using | What to type | What comes back |
|---|---|---|
| 1map Street Addresses | A street address, e.g. 12 Kerk Street Rietfontein | Numbered addresses from 1map's own records, each carrying the erf, portion and SG office behind it |
| Sectional Schemes | Words from the scheme name, and the unit number if you have it | Sectional title units matching those words |
| Stand Number | See Stand Number below | The stand (erf) and its addresses |
| Surveyor General Key (21 Digits) | The 21-character SG key | The one stand that key names |
| Buildings (e.g. Flats) | A building or complex name | Addresses inside that building |
| Farms | A farm name or number | Addresses on that farm |
| City or Town | A city or town name | The centre point of that city or town |
| Suburb | A suburb name | The centre point of that suburb |
Every one of these searches 1map's own database, so the small source icon beside a result always shows 1MAP, never Google's. Everything else about a result, its two icons, clicking it, Focus, works exactly as described on Searching.
Stand Number: two extra fields
Pick Stand Number and two boxes appear under the search box: Stand No and Portion No (Optional).
- The main search box is for a city or municipality name. It is optional, but narrows the search to that place.
- Stand No is required: the erf number itself.
- Portion No is optional. Left blank, it is read as the whole erf rather than one portion of it.
Leading zeros do not matter: typing 245 or 00000245 finds the same stand.
SG Key: the 21-character key
Pick Surveyor General Key (21 Digits) and type the key straight into the search box; there are no extra fields. It is the same 21-character format documented on SG Diagrams: an eight-character allotment code, the stand number and the portion number, run together with no separators, for example C01600070001689900000.
Case does not matter, and spaces are removed automatically, but a hyphen is not: type the 21 characters as one unbroken string.
Typing fewer than the full 21 characters still works: it is read as the start of a key, so the eight-character allotment code alone lists every stand under that allotment. Type all 21 and only the one stand it names comes back.
Pick a result and the search box keeps the raw key rather than the full address label, so pressing Enter again re-runs the same lookup.
Sectional Schemes: type the scheme, not a form
Sectional Schemes has no extra fields at all. Type words from the scheme's name, and the unit number if you know it, straight into the search box, for example Sunset Court 4 for unit 4 of a scheme called Sunset Court. Matching starts at the beginning of each word, so Sunset on its own lists every unit in every scheme with that word in its name.
Buildings and Farms: narrowing by municipality
Pick Buildings or Farms and a City or Municipality (Optional) box appears under the search box. It is an autocomplete, not free text: start typing and pick a match from the list. Leave it blank and the search runs across the whole database; fill it in and only results in that municipality come back.
- Buildings searches building and complex names, for example
Sunset Court. - Farms searches farm names and numbers, for example
Zonnebloem.
A 1map address result also feeds SG Diagrams
Pick a result from any of the eight modes above while the SG Diagrams panel is open, and its Manual Search form fills in and searches on its own, the same as selecting the address on the map does. The allotment, stand, portion and SG office travel with the address wherever it came from.
Finding an address by clicking the map
No item in Search Using covers this one: it runs on its own, without opening the dropdown at all. While a west-panel tab that shows the selected-address card is open (Search, Weather Forecast, Nearest Schools, Nearest Police Stations), a click anywhere on the map with the Pointer tool looks up the nearest 1map NAD address to that point and highlights its parcel, the same way picking a search result does.
- If nothing in the National Address Database is near the point you clicked, a message says so and nothing is highlighted.
- If the west panel is collapsed when you click, the coordinate is kept and the lookup runs once you open the panel, rather than being lost.
- If 1map's own server cannot be reached, a message says the lookup failed; click again to retry.
This counts as "picking a result in Search" for every panel that follows the selected address, so an address found this way also feeds SG Diagrams, Nearest Schools and Nearest Police Stations, exactly as a typed search would.
If something looks wrong
| What you see | What it means |
|---|---|
| Typing in the main search box finds nothing under Stand Number | The stand number itself goes in the Stand No box underneath, not the main search box. The main box is for the city or municipality, and is optional. |
| A Portion No you thought was blank still narrows the result | Check the box is genuinely empty rather than holding a 0; both are read the same way (the whole erf), but a typed portion narrows it. |
| The search box shows the full address instead of the key, after an SG Key search | That is normal for every other mode. Only Surveyor General Key keeps the raw key in the box afterwards. |
| A short SG key returns many stands, not one | Fewer than 21 characters is read as the start of a key, so it matches every stand under that prefix. Type the full 21 to narrow to one. |
| Typing a scheme name and unit finds nothing | Try fewer words, since matching starts at the beginning of each word you type. |
| The municipality box under Buildings or Farms will not accept free text | It only takes a pick from its own suggestion list. Type enough of the name for a match to appear, then select it. |
| Clicking the map does nothing | Check that the Pointer tool is the active map interaction, and that a west-panel tab showing the selected address is open. |
| "No address found near this point" | The National Address Database has nothing close to where you clicked. |
| "Address lookup failed" | 1map's own server did not answer. Click the same spot again. |
| Stand Number or Surveyor General Key has a lock, and shows "Finding an erf by its number is part of Professional and up." | Your subscription plan does not include erf numbers. See plans opens the plans, or ask your administrator which plan you are on. |
| A result has no erf, portion or allotment number, or no SG key | The same: with a plan without erf numbers, every search result comes without them. |
See also
- Searching - the Search panel itself, Google's option, and how to read a result
- SG Diagrams - the panel a 1map address search result feeds automatically
- Nearest Schools - another panel that follows the selected address
- Nearest Police Stations - the same, for police stations
- Feature Selection & Popup - clicking a feature already on the map, rather than finding an address