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Lower-risk driving routes in Stellenbosch
The newest addition, and a test of whether any of this works in a small town rather than a sprawling metro. It mostly does, with one adjustment: the rated areas here are small and sit close together, so the routing has to think harder about detours that would be trivial anywhere else.
What the data looks like here
32 mapped areas across Stellenbosch.
Every area is rated three times over, once each for daytime, evening and night, because risk in South African metros does not hold still across a day. The split below is how Stellenbosch's 32 zones fall across the bands at their highest rating.
Figures read directly from the live database, not typed by hand. The lowest band means an area was checked and carries no routing penalty, which is different from an area we have no data for.
Driving here
What matters on Stellenbosch's roads
- The R44 and R304 connect the town to the N1 and N2. Both are mapped.
- The Stellenbosch map overlaps the edge of the Cape Town one, so a trip between them is handled as a single drive.
- It is a small map because the town is small, not because we stopped halfway.
Tsamaya rates roads and routes. It does not publish a list of neighbourhoods, and the app never labels a place for anyone other than the driver about to pass through it.
Questions
Common questions about Stellenbosch
Does Tsamaya work for the drive between Stellenbosch and Cape Town?
Yes. Both are live and the maps join up, so it is treated as one drive rather than two.
Is a small town really worth mapping?
A lot of after-dark driving happens in a small area here, which suits time-of-day ratings well. It was also a deliberate test of whether any of this works outside the big metros.
Drive Stellenbosch with the risk on the map.
Tsamaya is free and currently in beta on iPhone. Ask for an invite and we'll send you a TestFlight link.