Street atlas

Lakeshore Drive, Cape Town

Lakeshore Drive is a mapped street in Cape Town. The represented road geometry totals about 1,649 m.

Mapped length: 1.65 km
Connected street names in this directory: 2

Street map

Lakeshore Drive

Street facts

Mapped geometry length: 1.65 kmLength of the represented lines, not a surveyed street length.
Municipal area in OSM: City of Cape TownThe complete displayed geometry lies inside the mapped municipal boundary. Not official municipal verification.
Coverage area: Cape Townpilot area
Province: Western CapeSource-backed territorial context
OSM locality polygon overlaps: Sunnydale (924 m, 56%)Length of the mapped section inside each OSM locality polygon. Overlaps under 20 m or under 5% of the mapped length only touch the edge. Not an official boundary.
Representative point: -34.121802, 18.380032Latitude, longitude; on the mapped line, not an address or entrance.
Suburb / locality: Not verifiedNo sufficiently supported locality assignment.
Nearest OSM place label: Faerie Knowe · 895 mThis is the nearest mapped OSM place label and does not determine suburb or administrative membership. Measured from the representative point inside the City of Cape Town OSM area.
Section scope: Mapped section shownThe street may continue beyond this mapped section. No completeness is claimed.
Street-delivery postal code: Not verifiedStreet delivery and PO Box codes require separate evidence. Evidence details

View technical evidence

Source snapshot: geofabrik-za-2026-09-27

Segment 5203d336-bb4b-5ade-9595-e1a9cb077c19 · OSM way 175953541
highway
residential
name
Lakeshore Drive
name:af
Lakeshorerylaan
name:en
Lakeshore Drive
Segment 526609cc-d1eb-5b5d-9b98-ee31d26a18e1 · OSM way 365686521
highway
residential
name
Lakeshore Drive
name:af
Northshorerylaan
name:en
Lakeshore Drive
Segment 467a3d47-d34b-57fa-b732-e8129a6faa7e · OSM way 365687529
highway
residential
name
Lakeshore Drive
name:af
Lakeshorerylaan
name:en
Lakeshore Drive
Segment deb97f8f-b785-5095-b5f5-c3e3476ef026 · OSM way 921932681
highway
residential
name
Lakeshore Drive
name:af
Lakeshorerylaan
name:en
Lakeshore Drive
oneway
yes

Other names in the source

Afrikaans name recorded in OpenStreetMap: Lakeshorerylaan
Afrikaans name recorded in OpenStreetMap: Northshorerylaan

Connections

2 street names in this directory

Mapped topology

Connected sections in this directory share source nodes at compatible levels. Junctions with streets outside this directory are not listed. Names appear once here; nearby sections are listed separately below.

Documented connections

No documented connections have been added from official sources.

Nearby streets

Shortest distance between mapped geometries, not a walking distance.

The road profile

Mapped road classification: Residential100% of represented geometry
This is an OpenStreetMap road classification, not a statement about land use.
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highway
highway=residential · 4 segments · 1,649 m · ways 175953541, 365686521, 365687529, 921932681
Recorded on 4 of 4 mapped segments; 0 without this tag.
Tag coverage by geometry length: 1,649 m of 1,649 m (100.0%). Unknown: 0 m (0.0%).
Source snapshot: geofabrik-za-2026-09-27
Lengths refer to the represented road lines, not surveyed road or pavement lengths.
Road surface: Paved100% of represented geometry
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surface
surface=paved · 4 segments · 1,649 m · ways 175953541, 365686521, 365687529, 921932681
Recorded on 4 of 4 mapped segments; 0 without this tag.
Tag coverage by geometry length: 1,649 m of 1,649 m (100.0%). Unknown: 0 m (0.0%).
Recorded on 4 of 4 mapped segments.
Source snapshot: geofabrik-za-2026-09-27
Lengths refer to the represented road lines, not surveyed road or pavement lengths.
Traffic direction: One-way tag on 7% of the mapped length; 93% not recorded7% of represented geometry
Tags describe individual mapped segments. They do not establish one traffic direction for the whole street: separate carriageways can be mapped as separate one-way lines, and untagged lines are unknown, not two-way.
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oneway
oneway=yes · 1 segment · 118 m · ways 921932681
Recorded on 1 of 4 mapped segments; 3 without this tag.
Tag coverage by geometry length: 118 m of 1,649 m (7.1%). Unknown: 1,531 m (92.9%).
Source snapshot: geofabrik-za-2026-09-27
Lengths refer to the represented road lines, not surveyed road or pavement lengths.
Pavements: Unknown
No sidewalk tag recorded
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sidewalk
No value in the source.
Recorded on 0 of 4 mapped segments; 4 without this tag.
Tag coverage by geometry length: 0 m of 1,649 m (0.0%). Unknown: 1,649 m (100.0%).
Values apply to their individual tagged segments and sides. Left and right follow the direction of each individual source way; they are not a single orientation for the whole street. An explicit no means no pavement on the tagged segment or side; a missing tag is unknown, and separate means a pavement mapped independently.
Source snapshot: geofabrik-za-2026-09-27
Lengths refer to the represented road lines, not surveyed road or pavement lengths.

Mapped area overlaps

Questions about this street

Where is Lakeshore Drive?

The mapped section is in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa.

What is the postcode of Lakeshore Drive?

A street-wide delivery postcode has not been independently verified in the current dataset.

What roads connect with Lakeshore Drive?

Mapped topology: Bluefin Crescent, Noordhoek Road.

Where are nearby distances measured from?

Page lists measure a straight line from the nearest part of the whole mapped geometry: 500 m for places and 1 km for passenger transport. The interactive map measures from one selected point, so its counts differ. Neither is a walking distance.