An exemplary project of PCGIS is a tourism map of Livingstone and its surroundings, especially the world famous Victoria Falls, that represent Zambia’s most important tourist attraction. However, a previous tourist map was more than 30 years old and not available anymore.
In 2007, PCGIS staff began to digitize streets, waters, and other topographic features, as well as important buildings, historic sites, tourist accommodation, and touristic activities and facilities from a recent high resolution satellite image into different layers of a digital map.
Besides the map representation there is an explanation of the genesis of the Victoria Falls and an aerophoto facilitating the orientation in the jagged Batoka Gorge.
The road network can be used for many projects, such as for the public administration of Livingstone, or the Ministry for Local Government and Housing that needed the dataset for the planning of a local infrastructure project.
In a cartography contest in South Africa the map was awarded the first prize in the category of presentation. Meanwhile the map has been printed in a much higher run, and is now sold by tour operators, hotels and bookshops. The revenues are used for the funding of the GIS center.

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